Musical Theatre MA

**This unique Masters will enhance your critical understanding of musical theatre as a popular entertainment genre.**<br/><br/>It will help you to sharpen your practical skills as a creative artist. On a practical level, it will assist you in working as a freelance writer, composer or producer of musical theatre.<br/><br/>The MA focuses on the dramaturgy of the musical as a key factor in the future development of the genre.<br/><br/>Expert professionals are regularly employed as visiting tutors, to maintain direct links with the industry.<br/><br/>You follow one of the two pathways as either:<br/> - producer<br/> - writer or composer<br/><br/>You undertake an analytic case study of a musical or production, a placement project and dissertation (producers), and a creative project involving either book and lyrics or music for a short original musical (writers and composers). Producers share some classes with students on the MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy.