NYMT 2020

Interesting @minimits one of DD's friends was chorus, but only had to attend a Saturday so maybe it is not the same for every member of the cast.

Fight like a girl definitely wasn’t a day-DS was in it! He was away for three nights in May half term.

@minimits DD knows people who did Fight like a girl and Peter Pan which both had single casting days on a Saturday in May.
DD was in Wanderlust which wasn't cast till the summer residential.
I didn't know that the older shows had longer castings.

Lonecatwithkitten casting days with BYMT have been a bit different for my DS. The first and last show he did with them had casting days in May but they weren’t on a Saturday-they were residential rehearsals/casting. The first was 5 days away and last year he was away for 4 days in May half term. These were the ‘older’ shows, children averaged 16/17/18. When he did a ‘younger’ show (most children were around 13) there were no casting days and they just cast it when they got to the summer residential. We haven’t had any experience of the one day auditions but DS had been allocated a show each time after auditioning so not sure how it works if you haven’t been. Basically I’d say the casting/rehearsal experience can be very different depending on what show you get. The first year he did it he was away for three weeks of summer and the second it was just over two. Last year it was just under three.

Well, might not even be an issue so we'll have to cross that bridge if we come to it... but DD is fully committed on Saturdays (she's at music college in London).

@folkmamma it is one Saturday for each production and you will have already been allocated a production so it will just be one day.

Saturdays 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@folkmamma no all rehearsals are in the summer holidays. Casting days are Saturdays in May, but not every production has them.

That's really helpful @Lonecatwithkitten thanks! Do BYMT have rehearsals over the Easter hols??? Just wondering as you don't hear until a bit later, do you??

DD has her auditions this weekend.

Congratulations to everyone with call backs.
In comparing the two organisations BYMT is fractionally bigger in that it took 280 participants in shows last year, they do have the courses and workshops, but these have no auditions. BYMT does audition more people 1600 last year. BYMT has a remit to take MT to the whole country in it's Arts Council Funding hence why they have shows all over the country.
The organisation as a parent I found excellent and there are no call backs you are either in a show or not. The some individual shows have casting days.
I think both are a excellent step up from local musical theatre and both have large numbers of alumni in West End productions.
BYMT do have their shows assessed by Trinity College and Wanderlust the show my DD was in last year was awarded Distinction Grade 8 MT in production.
Slightly different organisations doing things slightly differently.

Yes, she auditioned in Cardiff.

@Oakmaiden: congrats to your DD! You didn’t have to wait long for news either, which is great.

@Biscuitsneeded: no news here either, although I wasn’t expecting any just yet. How fast do they normally tell people? They told DS he’d know by Friday at the latest but it sounds like it may well be quicker than that? (just trying to gage when to start obsessively checking email!)

Oakmaiden Congrats on recall, DS also has recall for Kiss me Kate and has done BYMT four times (one show twice...) happy to DM you if I can work out how! Biscuitsneeded hope you’re not kept waiting long....

@Biscuitsneeded DD auditioned on Saturday. She heard this afternoon.

The timings of the NYMT rehearsals (Easter) are a little awkward as she would have to step out of another production she has been offered a place in to do it, but since they haven't cast (or actually written) that production yet, it wouldn't be the end of the world. And to make things extra complicated she is in yet another play performing in the beginning of April:the dates I was given for the performances were 2 and 3 April, but dd is convinced she has been told she will be expected to perform at a festival on the 5th too,which would actually be a big problem, so if she were to get a NYMT place we would have to do a lot of planning...

What it is to be sooooo busy!

Congrats @Oakmaiden DD!! My DD is also trying for both - BYMT audition this coming weekend and she seems to be going down with the lurgy 😔 hopefully she'll be over it in time for her NYMT call back, even if this weekend turns out to be a disaster....

No experience here as we are first timers to both, but my first impressions and the feeling I get from others aligns with yours.

Best of luck with call backs!

My daughter is auditioning for NYMT and BYMT this year - she auditioned for BYMT last year and was offered a place in Wanderlust, but could t do it in the end (she ended up dancing with the English Youth Ballet instead).

We have just heard she has been called back for the NYMT productions of Kiss Me Kate and Ragtime, so she is very exited about that!

I was just wondering if anyone was in a position to offer a comparison of BYMT and NYMT? I had got the impression that the NYMT was the more "professional " of the two, but ha e no idea what I have based that on so wondered if anyone who actually knows something about it might comment?

Everything crossed biscuitsneeded!

Yay for mini-biscuits!!! Fingers crossed now 🤞🏻🤞🏻