“I feel at home and at my best when I’m on stage,” said Warren
Franklin ’19, Music Theatre major in the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music.
On top of rehearsals and schoolwork, Franklin will give WCLV
Classical 104.9 listeners an inside look into the life of a first-year BW Conservatory student during a series of on-air interviews. In his first
interview for the series, Franklin explained his admiration for BW's renowned Music
Theatre program before he was even admitted.
“I knew ever since growing up, I wanted to go to BW,” said
Franklin. “The shows were amazing, but it was when I saw Carrie the Musical at the Beck Center
where I was just like, ‘this is my home, this is where I need to be.’”
A graduate of the Cleveland School of the Arts, Franklin is no
stranger to the stage. This past June, he starred in Cain Park’s production of Godspell as Jesus.
With just a few weeks into his freshman year, Franklin has
adjusted to a full course load to hone his craft. One class, Eurhythmics, comes natural to
Franklin.
“I was a percussionist for 6 years in a competition drum
corps,” Franklin said, “so eurhythmics comes very, very easy to me. I’m having
a lot of fun in Eurhythmics; it’s helping me a lot.”
Listeners can tune into Franklin’s next episode on the WCLV Classical 104.9 live-stream channel on Ideastream.
