WAAPA, VCA, NIDA???

I'm wondering what everybodys thoughts are on the three schools I mentioned in the title for a career in Musical Theatre and if you can make contacts there and how you get auditions for Professional productions(not cruise's or theme parks) after you have completed the course. And what the chances are of getting in, for example 5 in 500. I've heard nothing but greatness from WAAPA but I live in Melbourne:( According to my singing teacher NIDA is more for film & television. And she used to be a lecturer at VCA and it saddens her when I mention it because she says its "messed up" because Melb. Uni is trying to make it more academic. Please click on my username to see my experience. I've just turned 15 so I still have a bit of time to prepare. My Musical theatre repotoire is greater than my classical repotoire right now so I think I'm on the right track. And I've been dancing since I was 4.

That has to be one of the sillier ideas - calling agents and companies to find out what educational opportunities they like is absolutely useless. First, most agents/companies will think it's a waste of their time (and it is); second, agents/companies don't care all that much about your education, so long as you can actually act during an audition; third, it's more important to figure out which university offers what you need and want, than to try and cater your education to what other people think is 'best'. Just because agents/companies think NIDA is the 'best' doesn't make it the best for you. Who wants to attend a course and hate it just because you take the advice of an agent anyway? You have no guarantee of landing that agent, and when it comes time to try for a different one they won't care about which place you studied at either. Furthermore, plenty of people successfully land pro roles and agents without any type of formal education anyway; and plenty of people also land pro roles and agents WITHOUT attending the 'trinity' courses but from 'lesser' courses that are at other unis and TAFEs. Your source for handmade shadow puppets at Puppets in Melbourne

That has to be one of the

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