This certificate synthesizes the performance skills of movement, acting, and singing with the musical theatre script/song. The training starts with the basic principles of musical theatre techniques and refines them through the choreographic, theoretic, and performance processes. The curriculum is designed to introduce and develop the craft of musical theatre.
A person with a Musical Theatre certificate may go into acting or directing careers in musical theatre or may augment careers in education, recreation, and arts programs.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ synthesize choreographed movement and blocking skills with optimum singing skills
✔ interpret a character through a musical theatre song/script/dance
✔ critique acting, singing, and movement skills in a musical theatre performance
✔ develop and perform an audition package consisting of a ballad and an up-tempo song
✔ identify historical eras in the development of American Musical Theatre