Requirements | Minor in Musical Theatre

Minor in Musical Theatre

This is a five course (15 credit) minor. Every student is required to take the following:

• 3 credits Musical Theatre History
• 3 credits of musical theatre coursework in FTT
• 3 credits of musical theatre coursework in Music
• 3 credits of musical theatre coursework in either FTT or Music
• 3 credits capstone project

Questions? Contact Matt Hawkins, Head of Musical Theatre, at mhawkin2@nd.edu.

Interdisciplinary Minor in Musical Theatre

Past productions include:

• Cyrano (2022)
  • Video: Cyrano at Notre Dame
• Jesus Christ Superstar (2021)
  • Video: Jesus Christ Superstar in Notre Dame Stadium
• Spring Awakening (2018)
• Little Shop of Horrors (2015)
• Cabaret (2013)

Musical Theatre Lab

The MT Lab is a program that curates, workshops, and produces new musicals. Through classes and instruction, you learn to analyze structures of existing musicals, begin writing your own, then pitch your own show for possible production. If the show is selected, the musical enters into the workshop phase of the Lab, preparing the piece for rehearsal, followed by a full production. The Lab process is an opportunity for students to step into artistic leadership roles while experiencing the process of creating new work at a high level.

Past Lab musicals:

• Dawn's Early Light (2023)
  • Video: Dawn's Early Light
• Stupid Humans (now titled My Heart Says Go and workshopped with Apples and Oranges Studios and The Goodman Theatre)
  • Stupid Humans trailer
• An Old Family Recipe (a filmed theatrical musical during the COVID pandemic)
  • An Old Family Recipe show website
  • "Shooting the Feature-Length Film for the Musical, An Old Family Recipe," by William Donaruma, in Student Filmmakers Magazine