If you went to school for music, did you find the theater kids highly annoying (or vice versa! lol)?

Lisa
#1. November 20th, 2007, at 4:37 PM.

I had a much different view than you. It seemed like we were all working all the time. I would speak to theatre kids who had only 9 hours of sleep over the past three days. They had tons of classes and outside setup, memorizing, studying, working to do. They are much louder (well, them and singers) but that doesn’t bother me much.

~Lisa

TR
#2. November 23rd, 2007, at 5:45 AM.

I was a double-major in music and theatre–not too difficult since I was focused on history and criticism, not performance. So I understand how much time it takes in the soundproof practice room (history focus notwithstanding I had to master an instrument), and how much time it takes in rehearsal and memorizing lines and working on technique for a lead role.

As an undergrad, the music and theatre departments cooperated magnificently and everyone was friendly. In graduate school, the music students were unprofessional pains in the kiester. Now that I’m college faculty, our music and theatre people are friendly but they don’t find as much time as they’d like to work together.

m l
#3. November 25th, 2007, at 1:15 PM.

I was a music major and the **students** in the theatre and music departments got along just fine. It was the *faculty* that had a problem with each other. It was kind of stupid, frankly.

unknownsoundman
#4. November 26th, 2007, at 8:11 PM.

It’s all a performance, only a different medium!
Improv Musicians are the equivalent of a actor, in they must pull it “out of thin air”.
Reading music is just like reading a script, and when you can recite the music or script without looking at the paperwork you have succeded at being inprovisational, and thus are proficient at your craft.
and yes they are irritated at you too…..
perhaps too much time in the soundproof booth!!!

rann_georgia
#5. November 27th, 2007, at 3:54 AM.

Actually, I was a double major of music and theatre. The theatre students didn’t know how to take care of the concert grand that was stored back stage in a specially built wooden, locked garage for it and always resented the music festivals when classrooms and stages were used by the college for the district events.

The music people didn’t know anything about lighting or the technical terms for the cyc. I don’t recall either department hating or resenting one another. But, during school events, both departments put on the best show because the music department would draft members of the band and the acting department had all the props, costumes and makeup at their disposable and weren’t afraid to act out.

On the whole, both were rather clickish and the music department didn’t function well because the teachers played favorites and other area colleges knew that department wasn’t functioning.