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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
High Wycombe Campus
Full Time
Oct 2026
3 Year
This BA (Hons) Musical Theatre is led by a dedicated and experienced course team. Benefit from their industry knowledge and the industry links they bring to the course. Many of our guest lecturers are industry-experts and alongside your lecturers, they’ll nurture your learning and professional development.As well as this we seek to bring your work into the wider world and to bring the world into the university. During your time at BNU you’ll have the opportunity to perform at external venues and take part in workshops with leading companies, both on and off campus. We also have access to the Wycombe Swan Theatre and Wycombe Town Hall as part of our Wycombe Swan Residency.
Inspiring facilitiesWe’ve invested in a range of state-of-the-art facilities to help you bring your ideas to life on the musical theatre degree. You’ll benefit from our dance studios and our drama and performance studios, all are kitted-out with everything you’ll need, including;tiered seatingsprung floorslighting and sound systemsblack-out drapesProps and performance blocksYou’ll also have access to high quality camera equipment, a greenscreen room and lighting rigs and sound recording facilities, all suitable for film and TV screening. As well as this you’ll also have access to our props store where you can find everything you’ll need to bring your performances to life.
What will I study?This course is also offered as a four-year programme, including an initial Foundation Year. The Foundation Year will allow you to develop your academic study skills and build confidence in your abilities, identifying your own strengths and development needs for progression onto an undergraduate programme.The notion of the ‘thinking practitioner’ is central to our approach on this course, the ability to understand yourself as a performer and have the confidence to engage creatively and thoughtfully with the industry, and its innovations, is at the heart of our working ethos. Throughout this musical theatre degree, you will be exploring both the practical and theory of musical theatre. The production module strand will require you to engage with increasingly demanding productions within genres such as: Pre-1950 Classical, Contemporary Broadway, Variety and Cabaret and Political Musical Theatre. You will take part in fully realised productions as a key part of your BNU Musical Theatre education, often performing in large-scale productions. These are created in an intensive ‘timetable takeover style’ which mimics the experience of producing a show in a professional setting.The course is a high-quality practical training designed to hone your performance skills and stimulate your creative thinking. You’ll focus on acting, singing, and dancing throughout the course. You’ll become a member of our repertory musical theatre company, producing both studio and theatre performances.As well as this you will engage with industry professionals via a programme of workshops, seminars, lectures and performances. You will work collaboratively with a professional creative team to design, create and produce high quality productions. Experienced professional lecturers will tutor students in a range of acting, singing and dance styles, closely aligned to the industry’s constantly evolving sense of genre.The course progression will develop those skills necessary for entry to the performing arts industry. These will include the knowledge and skills you need to manage a professional freelance creative career and develop promotional materials such as showreels, an online portfolio and self-taped auditions. You will also take part in our Graduate Showcase.Upon graduating from this course you’ll be able to show you are a versatile performer, with valuable industry connections, experience and knowledge towards making your passion a career.
This module will focus on application of technique into set and unset jazz exercises. The module will use experiential dance science classes to progress your technical understanding and application of correct dance technique in a range of dance styles.
This will continue on from Foundations in Dance Technique as it is essential for dancers to have practical technique classes across the whole academic year to ensure healthy and safe practice and guarantee continuous technical progression.
This module introduces you to core vocal skills for musical theatre performance. The focus is primarily on the development of singing but the module also covers skills applicable to the projected spoken voice. You’ll be introduced to the theory and practice of vocal production.
This module introduces you to key concepts and methods relating to acting through a practical studio situation. A workshop series will deal with the basic processes of developing character and performing from text. You’ll engage with psychological, analytical and imaginative techniques and learn to apply them to physical expression, embodied in voice, movement, gesture.
This module incorporates learning undertaken in previous modules and focuses on developing and applying skills within a variety and cabaret performance. This will enable you to develop practical experience and understanding of the art form.
On this module you’ll be presented with key global debates which impact our lives and could influence your creative practice and positions as creatives in ever-changing professional industries. Through research and critical reflection, you’ll explore these issues which may be related to sustainability, politics and other ecological or socio- economic factors, and respond to them creatively using your chosen discipline-specific practice.
The module aims to build upon the technical foundations established at level 4 and will continue to include classes in Jazz, ballet and another diverse dance style (or singing for musical theatre learners).
This module incorporates learning undertaken from previous Level 4 modules. Ensemble singing will allow you to develop your ability to sing complex harmony lines and blend in as an ensemble member, ensemble classes will contribute to the Broadway Musical.
This module aims to investigate a key work from the canon of Broadway Theatre, with a focus on aesthetic, style and genre. The project involves an audition process for which you’ll prepare a solo song and text suited to an audition for this repertoire. Following casting, the process you’ll then move to the rehearsal process of a full-staged production.
This module aims to explore the craft of acting within Musical Theatre from a political perspective. The module investigates analytical approaches to classic and contemporary works from the political cannon and aims to help you gain an understand the relationship of musical theatre works and political contexts.
This module aims to build on academic, creative, employability and professional skills through the process of planning an industry relevant showcase. You’ll work collaboratively utilising the strengths of the group to ensure smooth organisation, marketing and planning of the Showcase performance.
The aim of this module will focus on the performance aspect in preparing you for your final showcase where you present your talents in relevance to your area of study. This will be performed to an invited audience, including agents and industry professionals.
This module aims to facilitate, develop and support an area of independent study and inquiry within the specialisms of dance/ performance/ theatre/ fitness. This extended project and should draw on a range of skills from core modules already pursued within your degree culminating in either a written outcome or part-practical outcome.
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