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(staging) Musical Theater
Minor

Find Your Voice on Stage
Merge acting, music, and movement into one collaborative art form, whatever your experience is.
The Musical Theater Minor at Goshen College brings together acting, music, and movement in one dynamic, collaborative art form. Lifelong performers along with first-time stage students grow their voice, presence, and confidence here.
You’ll develop your craft through a balance of vocal training, acting technique, and movement while performing in full-scale musicals and campus productions. With mentoring from faculty in both the theater and music departments, you’ll experience the joy and rigor of bringing a production to life, onstage and behind the scenes.

On Stage From the Start
This minor runs on creativity, collaboration, and community. Goshen’s mainstage productions and student-run shows give you immersive, real-world experience: you can audition and perform in full musical productions, contribute to staging, costuming, or choreography, collaborate with musicians and directors, and take part in vocal masterclasses and acting workshops.
You’ll train and perform in real spaces, like the Umble Center theater, Sauder Concert Hall, and Rieth Recital Hall. Altogether with small classes and close mentorship mean you’re known by name and supported as you grow. View the complete program requirements in our catalog.
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Common Questions About The Musical Theater Minor
No. The minor is built for lifelong performers and for students just discovering the stage. Through vocal training, acting technique, and movement, you grow your voice, presence, and confidence, and you experience both the joy and the rigor of bringing a production to life, onstage and behind the scenes.
It complements majors such as music, theater, English, and communication, and it adds creative range to almost any field. Because it is interdisciplinary, with coursework in music, theater, and dance, it strengthens skills, confidence, communication, and presentation, that employers and graduate programs value across professions.
You can audition and perform in full mainstage musicals and student-run shows, contribute to staging, costuming, or choreography, collaborate with musicians and directors, and join vocal masterclasses and acting workshops. You’ll work in the Umble Center black box theater, Sauder Concert Hall, and Rieth Recital Hall, with scene and costume shops for production work.
Music and theater students are eligible for talent-based scholarships, with award amounts determined by auditions and portfolio reviews that can range from $2,500 to full tuition. Use the net price calculator on the financial aid page to see your real number, and a financial aid counselor can walk you through the options.
A background in musical theater builds confidence, communication, and presentation skills valued in any profession. It also supports careers in the performing arts, theater education, music instruction, arts administration, and creative direction, as well as graduate study in performance or theater education.
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