This unique Masters will enhance your critical understanding of musical theatre as a popular entertainment genre.This programme will help you to sharpen your practical skills as a creative artist. On a practical level, it will assist you in working as a performer, freelance writer, composer or producer of musical theatre.The MA focuses on the dramaturgy of the musical as a key factor in the future development of the genre.Expert professionals are regularly employed as visiting tutors, to maintain direct links with the industry.You follow one of the three pathways:- Producer- Writer or composer- PerformerYou 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). On the performers pathway, you will undertake a musical theatre performer showcase.