The Muny Summer Intensive
The Muny Summer Intensive Get your start on our stage!
Our program allows young artists from outside St. Louis to experience the training and performance opportunities of the acclaimed Muny Teens.
The Muny, America’s premiere summer musical theatre, hosts a one-of-a-kind intensive for emerging young artists. This three-week program in St. Louis invites 12 rising high school juniors and seniors from across the nation to participate in an immersive theatrical experience like no other!
The 2025 Muny Summer Intensive runs July 17-Aug. 3. Applications will be accepted Dec. 9 through March 2, using the Acceptd platform.
Perform in a world-class production and Midwest professional premiere of Dear Evan Hansen for an audience of up to 11,000 each night. Share the Muny stage and forge direct relationships with Broadway’s and TV’s biggest stars. Challenge yourself in college-level classes with the best in the business and faculty from the top musical theatre training programs from across the country.
We are seeking bright, talented performers with a hunger to grow and learn from every experience. You must possess a strong voice, excellent dance technique and the ability to connect with an audience to tell the story. This program is open only to nonresidents of the greater St. Louis area.
Your Summer Intensive Experience
The first portion of the Muny Summer Intensive introduces you to the professional life of a performer at The Muny. Students work under the direction of a Broadway creative team, as well as The Muny’s artistic and education staff, to rehearse an epic show in 11 days and perform for an audience of up to 11,000 nightly. In the evenings, during the rehearsal process, the students enjoy unlimited access to some of the brightest creative talents from Broadway, television and The Muny through intimate masterclasses and workshops.
In the second half of the Summer Intensive, students receive pre-collegiate training from guest artists and faculty members through studio classes held at the Sargent Conversatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. Classes include song study, acting, musical theatre dance, improv and audition technique.
Program Details
- Twelve current sophomore and junior year high school students will be accepted. This means you are entering your junior or senior year in fall 2025.
- This program is open only to nonresidents of St. Louis and the greater St. Louis area.
- The total cost for each participant is $5,800 and includes housing, meals and transportation between the dormitory and The Muny.
- You are responsible for your transportation to St. Louis.
- Housing for this 20-day, 21-night program will be in the East Hall Residence dormitory on the Webster University campus.
- All food is included — three meals per day, plus one snack.
How to Apply
Submit an online application, headshot and resume, as well as three videos through Acceptd.
Video No. 1: Your best musical theatre song (32-bar selection of your choosing)
Video No. 2: A contemporary monologue of your choosing (no longer than one minute)
Video No. 3: A one-minute dance video (see the instructions here)
Please direct questions to Michael Baxter, The Muny’s associate artistic director and Intensive program manager, at [email protected].
Summer Intensive FAQ
Questions? Reach out to Michael Baxter, The Muny’s associate artistic director and manager of the Summer Intensive program, at [email protected].
St. Louis teenagers should audition for the Muny Teens. Any local teens cast for the season are eligible to participate in the Webster class portion of the Intensive. That cost is $500, and spots are limited.
Yes. For inquiries, please contact [email protected].
You will be part of the teen chorus, joining local St. Louis teenagers who have already been cast. Exactly how the teen chorus functions in the show is the prerogative of the creative team, like all artistic and casting decisions. And it fluctuates year to year, show to show and team to team. You will have onstage moments, singing and dancing with the Equity cast, but you will not be in every number in the show.
Yes! You are entitled to two comp tickets that can be used for any performance during the run. Additional tickets may be purchased online or through the Muny Box Office.
That depends on who’s teaching. Sometimes they have you sing 16 bars of your best song and break it down. Sometimes they teach you choreography. Sometimes you all just sit and talk about the business or how they got to where they are. Each artist brings different ideas to the table, and we let them help shape the class in a way they feel is interesting for you.
We always aim to have everyone perform during the masterclasses, but occasionally the time gets away from people. When that happens, whoever didn’t go starts the next session.
All over the place! Breakfast will be in the dorm. There is a kitchen, and the program coordinator will do regular shopping to get whatever breakfast foods you like to eat. Lunch will be at The Muny canteen during the rehearsal process. Dinner will vary and will often include fast food or takeaway choices.
There are two sets of dorm suites — one for guys and one for girls. Within the suite, there are three bedrooms, two people per room, all sharing two bathrooms in the larger suite. You will be randomly assigned a roommate of the same gender. Our program coordinator will be next door in an RA room and lives at the dorm with you.
You’re not a little kid, we know. But while you’re at the Intensive, you’re our responsibility. So the program coordinator will be with you 24 hours a day — she lives in the dorm with you. And you always travel as a group to and from The Muny. You eat together, live together, rehearse together, take class and perform together. You will form some incredible friendships over a very short period of time!
You will receive all the raw photo files from your session. They will not be Photoshopped or color corrected. They will be sent by Aug. 30.
About the Crawford Taylor Education Initiative
Established in 2019, the Crawford Taylor Education Initiative aids in the development of new arts education opportunities while improving current Muny education programs under a single, cohesive framework. This initiative strives to provide unprecedented, hands-on instruction and mentoring to youth performers hoping to pursue a career on or offstage in musical theatre.
