-: So my name is Tim Howard,
and at Western Connecticut State University
I am a professor of theatre,
and I'm also the coordinator for the BFA
musical theatre program.
Once we start rehearsal, it's usually six weeks
for rehearsal and then we go into tech,
so it's approximately seven weeks that would be involved
rehearsing from seven o'clock at night to 10:30.
So, the preparation is a lot of what I do,
prior so that I can come in,
particularly with a large scale musical,
there's a lot of staging.
The last show I did there was 35 people in the cast.
So, you can't just kind of come in and wing it,
you have to have the picture in your head.