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 starting Monday, Dec. 9, 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.
Vital information, details about how/when to register and other specific audition components will be available Monday, Dec. 9. Save the date, set an alarm and check back then for details about how you can apply for this competitive program and be a part of the magic in 2025!
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.
