The Ultimate Musical Theater College Audition Guide

In The Ultimate Musical Theatre College Audition Guide, author, acting teacher, and musical theatre program director Amy Rogers offers an honest, no-nonsense guide to the musical theatre audition. Written for high school students and their parents, teachers, and mentors, the book demystifies what can be an overwhelming process with step-by-step explanations of audition checkpoints to answer every student's question, where do I begin? Chapters explore degree types, summer programs and intensives, audition coaches, what to sing, what to wear, headshots, how to prepare your monologue, the dance call, the university and program applications, prescreens, on-campus auditions, Unifides, resumes, acceptances/waitlists/rejections, and more. The book also includes advice from over 10 top-tier program directors and faculty, as well as examples from students, parents, and experts currently working on Broadway. Written with compassion, experience, and a love of the industry, Rogers' essential all-in-one guide is guaranteed to prevent surprise throughout the audition process.


Amy is a true expert and has great advice for those looking to major in musical theater. --Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, award-winning songwriters of Dear Evan Hansen and The Greatest Showman

Amy's expertise outlines a one-of-a-kind roadmap for prospective students looking to major in musical theater. --Lindsay Mendez, Tony Award-winning Broadway performer

Amy Rogers built one of the country's most competitive musical theater programs from the very ground up, learning the detailed inner workings of the young person's professional pursuit. Her teachings are forged in timeless traditions and yet harness the latest, on-the-pulse lessons of the contemporary theater industry. --Ryan Scott Oliver, award-winning musical theater composer and lyricist

Amy's advice about navigating the college audition process is invaluable. She understands that there is not one way for everyone and gives an honest step-by-step guide for those auditioning, their families and teachers. --Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Broadway Conductor/Music Director

Amy Rogers Schartzreich, with her many years of dedicated teaching, exhaustive knowledge of the American musical theater canon, practiced eye for spotting talent and nurturing it, and committed and passionate desire to make an actor, any actor, a better one, has provided a book that every high school student preparing to enter a college or university program of performing arts will want to own and learn from. --Michael John LaChiusa, composer, lyricist, librettist