OPEN JAR INSTITUTE: NYC broadway training program. New York City's most Broadway-integrated actor training program, The Open Jar Institute provides select students intensive one-on-one training with some of Broadway's biggest stars, performers, directors, choreographers, agents and casting directors. THE OPEN JAR PHILOSOPHY: A group of researchers did a study on fleas and discovered the open jar phenomenon. They took a bunch of fleas, put them in a jar and closed the lid. The fleas, which have a high capacity to jump, kept hitting the lid of the jar. After a few days, the fleas began jumping below the height of the lid and continued to do so - even when the lid of the jar came off a week later! The jar was open, but they didn't jump out! Like those fleas in the OPEN JAR, so do we, as humans (and ARTISTS) often accept the limitations others set for us - even when there are no limitations. At THE OPEN JAR INSTITUTE we believe that the lid is off... the possibilities endless!