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Article: MUSICAL THEATRE PROGRAM MAINTAINS STRONG PRESENCE ON BROADWAY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 5 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
In January 2009, the number of Penn State musical theatre alumni performing simultaneously on Broadway peaked at 13 - a particularly impressive number considering the University's musical theatre program was started just 15 years ago.
"It typically takes many years for an academic program to attain the prestige and national prominence our musical theatre program has achieved in a short period of time," said Cary Libkin, head of the program since its inception in 1994. "The quality of our faculty - as teachers and as professional artists - has attracted students from across the country who have ...