AMDA is a place like no other. For people who don't attend AMDA or are not planning to (yet you're still interested in what it's like), it might seem like just a performing arts school where people go to sing and act and dance their college experience away. It's sort of like that, sort of. Of course, there's singing and dancing and acting, but there's also crying and stressing and memorizing lines 30 minutes before class (we’ve all been there, don't judge). If you go to AMDA or any performing arts school, there's just certain things that happen that probably don't happen anywhere else, and those things can sure be crazy.
1. When you put on your first costume for Musical Theatre class and you think you look good and look exactly like the character, but really you probably overdid it a little bit.
2. When your musical theater teacher gives you your first song sheet and you don't know what actions, as if’s, subtext, or personalization mean. Also, when you don't even know what your objectives are.
3. Going shopping for groceries at Whole Foods, CVS, Trader Joes or any market around you after they give you the nutrition speech at Orientation.
4. When you got placed in Level 2 Jazz even though you have the same amount of Jazz experience as your friend who was placed in Level 4 Jazz.
5. When you have to wear your Acting costume to class every day because you never know what day you're going to be chosen to workshop.
6. The feeling you get in the middle of the semester when it feels like everyone else is great at everything and you can barely manage learning the lyrics to your songs.
7. When you turn the wrong way during dance demos and have to raise your hand.
8. When you're no longer a first semester.
9. When you can't find any clothes that fit into the second semester musical theater dress code.
10. When you yawn in class.
11. When you finally get a Friday night where you can relax and hang out with friends.
12. When you have to walk to class every day in your costume and you're tired of everyone staring at you.
13. When you have a ten minute break in between classes and you have to change.
14. When someone who doesn't go to AMDA tries to tell you that their school work is more challenging and tires them out more than yours does.
15. When your teacher gives you a song that doesn't match your “type.”
16. When you finish all your final demos.
18. When you try cooking in the kitchen for the first time and you don't realize that the low temperature is not clockwise.
