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NYMT / BYMT 2021

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doesanybodyhaveamap · 01/02/2021 11:09

Starting a new thread for NYMT / BYMT hopefuls in 2021.

DD13 is auditioning for NYMT for the second time as stage performer and as musician. We just received an invite to the next round (online workshops).

She was gutted that Covid put a stop to her show (Imaginary) last year so we are keeping everything crossed that she gets another shot.

We've also booked a BYMT audition and she's already in the musician pool there so hopefully a show of some sort this year if we get some kind of normality back again...

Anyone else out there?

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doesanybodyhaveamap · 03/02/2021 13:33

ps I think his choice of audition rep sounds AWESOME!

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Comefromaway · 03/02/2021 13:21

Durr, I do mean Hunchbsck, beauty was the show dh’s college did before lockdown.

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doesanybodyhaveamap · 03/02/2021 13:14

do you mean Hunchback @Comefromaway? yes, sounds completely epic! I think if DD offered musician she would like that one too :-)

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Comefromaway · 03/02/2021 12:49

He wants Beauty. But I know that’s unlikely. Although the orchestration does use three keyboards.

Lonecatwithkitten · 03/02/2021 11:30

@Comefromaway BYMT often have 'experimental' musicals DD was A.L.I.C.E in wanderlust a devised musical with an abstract modern theme - sounds like it could be the kind of thing he would be into.
All bar one of the songs was written in the two week rehearsal period and the entire script was devised in the first week. If he searches on Facebook the trailer was released there by BYMT 30/12/19.
It was the point at which DD truly knew this was her chosen career.

Comefromaway · 03/02/2021 11:02

Ds’s choice of repertoire for his audition was quite unusual shall we say. The overture from the Book of Mormon, first played on piano, the. A short excerpt on keyboard showing how he’d programmed the patches.

Lonecatwithkitten · 03/02/2021 06:40

That's a BYMT show I should say.
@Comefromaway a boy who liked playing his guitar did a BYMT audition when he was 14 and got on a show - Ed Sheeran now a BYMT patron not everyone has formal training.

Lonecatwithkitten · 03/02/2021 06:38

DD has a place on the cast of Peter Pan should have been last summer, the April and now August with a three days casting in summer half term.
The performances will either be Powderham Castle near Exeter or an Ambassador Theatre in London.
A year older, nearly a full year of full time training she is hopefully it will put her in a good position for parts.
They had an online meet and greet October half term and heard some songs - she is particularly taken by Tinkerbell's song in this production she is a full Rock/pop diva.

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doesanybodyhaveamap · 01/02/2021 16:07

😃👋

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Comefromaway · 01/02/2021 15:29

And of course you know that as it was you who told me about the extension (teach me to look at someones username)

Comefromaway · 01/02/2021 15:28

Ds recorded his NYMT audition on Saturday, he just has to film his introduction and send it all off (the deadline has been extended). It's a long shot as he isn't classically trained and has no grades but his hobby is playing and programming musical theatre scores so we thought why not.

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