MSM Announces NYC's First-Ever Conservatory Program in Musical Theater

At Manhattan School of Music's 2015 gala tonight, which honored Bebe Neuwirth and welcomed special guests Angela Lansbury, Barbara Cook, Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue, and Tommy Tune in the Broadway Melody at the Rainbow Room, MSM President James Gandre announced that, beginning in fall 2016, MSM will become the first-ever independent music conservatory in New York (and only the second in the country) to offer a degree program in musical theater.

With an Artistic Advisory Committee that includes Norm Lewis, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune, Kelli O'Hara, Ted Chapin, Bebe Neuwirth, Christine Ebersole, Graciela Daniele, James Naughton, Shuler Hensley, Ron Raines, and more, the Program will be directed by Luis Perez, who since 2008 has led Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Below is a message from President James Gandre about this new program: