Is there a blog being written by any aspiring Broadway stars?

Because my daughter has decided that this is the career that she wants (Broadway star, not blogger). She’s a California girl, due to graduate from high school next June, and beyond making plans to get a full ride to a performing arts university in Manhattan, she has no idea how to go about making her way in the big city while she works to make the big dream happen.

I suggested that maybe if some other aspiring Laura Osnes/Sutton Foster/Kristen Chenowith might be running a blog, she could pick up a few tips on how this is done.

Anybody know of one?

Hopefully she is not just watching Rachel on Glee…let’s just say her character’s life is a smidgen unrealistic.

I don’t know of any blogs - but certainly a great idea and will be interested to read if anyone posts a link - but there have been some good documentary features on HBO and some of the other cable networks about young, aspiring actors hitting NYC.

I lived in NYC for a few years and met more than my share of wannabe Broadway stars - and to be honest, if you are young and talented and highly-motivated and have thick skin and have a Plan B (go home to family, go back to school, whatever) there is no reason not to give it a shot.

I have to admit, going the Broadway route for a California girl is a bit odd - most in NYC might wonder why she didn’t do the TV or movie career move first while living where she lives - but I understand the allure of live musical theater and understand that NYC is the center of that universe. Just let her know that there is indeed a certain New York animosity for the “California” personality…not that it will be impossible, but there will be some snide comments and jokes.

Hopefully someone will enter this thread with a link to the kind of blog your requested!

I don’t know about blogs, but a number of musical stars have written memoirs. Chenoweth has one called A Little Bit Wicked, and Patti LuPone’s is simply called Patti LuPone: A Memoir.

And Elaine Paige wrote a memoir Memories.

Where is she planning on going to school?

Does she sing and dance and act? Or just act?

She’s kind of pinning her hopes on Marymount Manhattan College (no longer a Catholic institution).

ETA: She acts and sings, and has been taking some dancing lessons (jazz and tap).

ETAA: She’s also been looking into AMDA.

Marymount is a good school.

I run an ‘off-off’ production company in NYC. I work with many aspiring actors.

Marymount is a good school. I’ve worked with many grads from there.