University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Musical Theater Department

The CCM Department of Musical Theater was established in 1969, the first of its kind in the country, and was used as a model by the National Association of Schools of Music in establishing guidelines for accrediting musical theater programs. The CCM Department of Musical Theater provides professional conservatory training designed to help singers, dancers and actors become accomplished musical theater performers. With its emphasis on imagination, analysis and technical skill, the program provides the craft to master a popular art form, to capture in sound and movement those universal emotions that have made the musical America's most visible contribution to world theater.

CCM's professional training program in musical theater is designed to create "triple threats," talented young people who can sing, dance and act with equal accomplishment. Its musical theater graduates are working on Broadway and throughout the nation in productions such as Beauty and the Beast, Grease, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Ragtime and Show Boat. Students represent their alma mater in national and international touring productions, in dinner theaters and theme parks, on cruise ships, on television, as producers, and in many related entertainment fields. The skills acquired in classes at CCM provide an excellent background for a wide range of dynamic careers in the arts.