BA (Hons) Musical Theatre
Course Overview
The BA (Hons) Musical Theatre equips you with the fundamentals of musical theatre performance skills, enabling you to emerge with the confidence and creativity to launch a career as a performer. 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.
Key Program Highlights
- The production module strand will require you to engage with increasingly demanding productions within genres such as: 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.
- BA (Hons) Musical Theatre students' production of Sister Act (2025) - photo taken by BA (Hons) Photography students 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.
Course Overview
The BA (Hons) Musical Theatre equips you with the fundamentals of musical theatre performance skills, enabling you to emerge with the confidence and creativity to launch a career as a performer. 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.
Key Program Highlights
- The production module strand will require you to engage with increasingly demanding productions within genres such as: 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.
- BA (Hons) Musical Theatre students' production of Sister Act (2025) - photo taken by BA (Hons) Photography students 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.
