Six MSUM Musical Theatre students participated in the 2019 Minnesota National Association of Teachers of Singing (MN-NATS) competition at St. John’s University on November 1, where students took away prizes in multiple areas. Sloan Hanson placed 2nd in Women’s Musical Theatre; Michael Kalpakoff and Zachary Lutz place 2nd and 3rd in Men’s Musical Theatre; and Noah Roddy placed in 3rd […]
April 4-7 | 7:30 p.m | Gaede Stage Tommy, a rock opera based on The Who’s 1969 rock concept album, opens on the Gaede Stage Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and runs through Saturday. MSUM’s Commercial Ensemble will perform the rock score’s instrumental music, and all the actors other than two children are musical theatre students from MSUM. Professional lighting designer […]
MSUM Musical Theatre majors caught a lucky break last Saturday when New York City based actor and writer, Matt Webster, came to MSUM to work with them. Webster, who’d just finished working on a show in St. Paul, Minn., is a successful actor and writer whose first musical, Kingdom Come, won Best Musical at the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival in NYC. […]