Musical Theatre - BA (Hons)
Falmouth University
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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Turn your passion for musical theatre into an enduring career within a supportive community of creative performers. With training in acting, singing and dance, you’ll develop performance skills while engaging with traditional, current and future forms, including digital technologies. You’ll enhance and expand your musical theatre abilities through technique classes, exercises, scene work and project rehearsals of classic and contemporary musicals. Practical sessions, individual tutorials, ...Read more

Turn your passion for musical theatre into an enduring career within a supportive community of creative performers. With training in acting, singing and dance, you’ll develop performance skills while engaging with traditional, current and future forms, including digital technologies. You’ll enhance and expand your musical theatre abilities through technique classes, exercises, scene work and project rehearsals of classic and contemporary musicals. Practical sessions, individual tutorials, professional development workshops and public performances will help prepare you as a versatile, industry-ready artist.You will:Study within AMATA’s creative and dynamic performing arts community, where actors, musicians, dancers and technicians collaborate in a dedicated facility, which is also a professional performance venueAccess industry-standard facilities, including extensive sprung-floor dance studios, practice rooms, recording studios and technical and music resourcesBenefit from AMATA’s year-round performance programme, which attracts top artists and performersWork with highly skilled and experienced staff with expert knowledge of the performing arts industryAs part of this vibrant musical theatre degree, you’ll learn acting skills, develop your voice and singing range, and advance your dance techniques in ballet, jazz and tap. Growing your knowledge and understanding of the genre, you’ll engage with and reflect critically on all aspects of it, together with an awareness of emerging forms. You’ll extend your personal repertoire in singing and dance, learn to perform confidently in live theatre and explore digital technologies. Professional development workshops will enable you to focus on strategies for future employability, developing your personal profile and potential.

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57/279
CUG Subject Ranking
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52nd
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62nd
What students say
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Beth
16 Dec 24

Falmouth is an amazing place to study; lecturers are super supportive, there are plenty of amazing spaces to support our learning, the campuses are both beautiful. It would be..Read more

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Poppy-Fe
29 Nov 24

The lecturers and staff are all amazing, the cafe (whilst expensive) is incredibly..Read more

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Entry requirements

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UCAS Tariff:

64 Grades / Points required

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Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal:

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Extended Project:

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International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme:

24 Grades / Points required

OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma:

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Pearson BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF):

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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Certificate (first teaching from September 2016):

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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

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£9,535 per year

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£19,950 per year

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Accommodation (Tuke House) Single bed, en-suite - 155.61 (Per Week)

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Beth
16 Dec 24
Musical Theatre - BA (Hons)
Falmouth is an amazing place to study; lecturers are super supportive, there are plenty of amazing spaces to support our learning, the campuses are both beautiful. It would be...
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Poppy-Fe
29 Nov 24
Musical Theatre - BA (Hons)
The lecturers and staff are all amazing, the cafe (whilst expensive) is incredibly...
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Falmouth University
Falmouth University , Falmouth

Falmouth University is a modern learning institution situated in Cornwall....

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Falmouth University
Treliever Road Penryn Cornwall TR10 9FE United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Penryn Cornwall  0.4 miles away

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