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Winter Session

Overview

We are thrilled to return for our 12th year at the Musical Theatre Competitions of America Festival in California! The MTCA Festival celebrates musical theatre while empowering, educating, and elevating student performers — both onstage and beyond. This is an opportunity to bring a mini production and a showtune to competition while giving students professional training and industry exposure through Broadway-style auditions, masterclasses, competition performances, and personalized adjudicator feedback.

Program & Trip Dates

Festival Trip: February 4–9, 2027.

Destination: Garden Grove and Anaheim, California.

Exact departure/return times will be shared after flights and ground transportation are finalized.

Tuition & Fees

MTCA Competition Training tuition: $200 (13 rehearsals / 26 hours).

California Competition Trip fee: $2,388 — includes round-trip airfare (SLC–John Wayne), ground transportation in California, shared hotel accommodations, student festival registration ($645), selected meals, festival activities/masterclasses, professional adjudication and feedback, a two-day Disneyland Park Hopper ticket, and adult supervision.

Optional solos, monologues, and duets are billed separately and not included in the standard trip fee.

Conservatory Audition Form

Entering 9th–12th Grade

8th graders can apply to audition. 

This program focuses on the rehearsal process and production.
Students rehearse a show developed for the group while attending masterclasses with their instructors, university faculty, and guest theatre artists.

The session concludes with a public performance in the Babcock Theatre.

Tuition: $1050.00

Senior Ensemble Placement Form
Students enrolled in Senior Ensemble will complete a short supplemental form in the registration system.
The form includes a brief video (monologue or song) and a few short questions about interests and goals.
This is not an audition.
It simply helps our teaching team get to know students before the session begins so we can plan the work and support everyone’s strengths.
The form will appear in your registration account and is due 30 days before the session begins.
Students may apply for leadership roles including:
Assistant Director, Assistant Choreographer, Dramaturg, Stage Management Apprentice, and Design Lead.
Leadership Lab meetings support advanced artistic work.

Entering 6th–8th Grade

Students deepen their skills in acting, movement, and storytelling.
They choose a focus area such as Acting or Musical Theatre and select electives while rehearsing a one-act production with their ensemble.

The session concludes with a performance in the Babcock Theatre.

Tuition: $950.00

Entering 4th–5th Grade

Students train in voice, movement, character development, and ensemble collaboration.
They choose a focus area such as Acting or Musical Theatre and select electives that support their training.

Students rehearse a short one-act play/musical throughout the session and present it in the final performance.

Tuition: $950.00

Entering 1st–3rd Grade

Students explore acting, movement, music, and visual art through imaginative storytelling.
Each day includes theatre games, creative activities, stagecrafts, music and movement, and rehearsal for a short story dramatization with songs.

The session concludes with a mini-performance for family and friends.

Tuition: $950.00