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Another hundred students just got off the train. Some come to New York for a rigorous conservatory experience, some to study with teachers who provide a link to theater's glorious past and, hopefully, its future. In either case, musical theater students inevitably find themselves charged by alternating currents of competition and collaboration. Back Stage talked with some of them recently about their experiences in several of New York's musical theater training programs.Staying VersatileThe New York Film Academy might not sound like the place to perfect your delivery of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Yet the school began offering courses in musical theater performance this past January. The Manhattan branch (there's also one at Universal Studios in Los Angeles) kept getting requests from its students for musical theater classes, so the school approached V.P. Boyle, an audition coach and casting director, to develop a new program.Boyle looked for a way...