NYMT / BYMT 2021

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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?

Thanks @Biscuitsneeded - sounds like you’ve done this before!!!! 🤣 must be exhausting for the creatives.... !
I wonder if they will cast actual parts from the zoom or just each company....🧐

Hate all the double guessing - in my experience (which isn't vast) it doesn't mean anything. In a final for a west end show I was utterly convinced mine was totally out of the running because a few of them were sent out early while everyone else stayed behind and were asked lots of questions like availability and training etc. Mine was one of the few sent out and I thought ok, well that's a no! In the end got so close, down to the reserve place - many of those who stayed were given a no well before him. So you never can tell!

Biscuits numbers for final cast seem to match roughly what NYMT told us. I hadn't thought of the 120 being per day, that makes sense!

I notice the self tape got some more views today. Anyone else?

And from here until the email I will now overthink everything repeatedly - glad I'm not alone! Fortunately the kid generally doesn't and is happy it went really well, couldn't have done any better - this is the right way round. If I were laid back and he were the neurotic one, it would be way worse!

Oh indeed. There will be so much that happens that the participants in the audition aren't privy to and may read a certain way, but in the end none of us know what the teams know! It's also a strange year because the kids haven't heard each other sing, which will skew perspectives significantly. Hope today's recallees have a good day and then that the news doesn't take too long!

I still find it incredible that they’re casting a show without having met anyone or seen any dynamics between the kids - let alone seen relative heights!!!!
Maybe they are magical and just ...KNOW! 😉

Good point Biscuits! apart from one of the recalls yesterday where the two asked to sing and take direction on songs from the show had to do it i front of everyone (in the earlier recalls people were taken to private rooms to sing) no one has heard anyone else . That makes it quite strange.

@Jamsanmum I think for two of the shows they did have to say on the recall video how tall they were. But yes, going back to what you said earlier, I wonder if they will cast a company at this stage with some strong ideas about who might play certain roles, and then get a few key individuals to come and do small sessions as soon as they can to finalise the casting. They can't leave it till summer as they will want leads to do some work ahead of then, I'm sure. I mean it's amazing how they pull these incredible shows together in such a short space of time but there will be considerations like costume which will mean for some roles they will have to know more than 3 weeks in advance! I also wonder if some people might not be happy to take a place without knowing their role. I think DS would be anything at all because the NYMT experience is so precious to him, and he always learns so much no matter what he's playing (and also because they are very good at ensuring the ensemble have plenty to do), but I guess some people might have other options or be desperate to play a particular role. It will be interesting to see how it plays out!

Sounds like recalls were really super yesterday! Good luck to everyone that's in today's sessions!

After a great big wobble on Friday we are bouncing back over here. Goblin Market as a musician is a very exciting prospect, so much so that we have let NYMT know she is no longer available during the GM dates. This basically wipes out 2 show possibilities for NYMT musician, which I'm sure reduces her odds further. However we both needed some certainty. If NYMT offer her musician in Hunchback, she will be utterly delighted and will have the best time (of all the options on the table, this was her number 1 choice at the outset, but has perhaps been clouded by the rejections a bit). If they don't, we will book onto one of the organisations' summer courses for some performer training.

She's a lucky girl to have two bites of each cherry really. But rejection always stings, doesn't it? Especially after getting in last year.

Glad to hear your DD is feeling more positive @doesanybodyhaveamap. Goblin Market sounds fantastic and am I right in saying that @Yr10mom DD has been offered musician on that too?

@Lonecatwithkitten my DD has been offered Peter Pan. It looks like an amazing production, she is very excited.

That's right @DalekFan , and they know one another so will be lovely to have a project together 😍

Yesterday the Billy team were saying 2 weeks for results and the other 2 were saying 1 week. A friend who did a Billy recall this morning thinks they were told one week - so fingers crossed they've all had a conflab overnight and decided they can do it in a week. Would be lovely if so.

Hunchback Recall over for my DD. She said the competition was fierce. 14 girls and 4 boys. All extremely talented. They had mentioned there would be curve balls but nothing came. It was just the dance and then 3 pieces of script. No one asked to read again, no breakout rooms. She felt she didn’t shine enough. She did also say it will be an impossible task to choose. No mention of when they will hear. Oh well, the wait how’s on!

Mine said 4 were asked to sing in that recall in front of the others, and given various directions. None of the others did. Then two much older girls I think, sang a different song - said one of them was absolutely brilliant and NAILED it! Apparently when anyone else was performing they all had to turn off their cameras. They did the dance in groups of 4, nobody had to do that alone. None of this is first hand though, I took the others out so there were no interruptions (somehow an 8yo forgets all instruction if a snack is needed!).

@doesanybodyhaveamap so glad to hear your dd is feeling positive, it sounds like a fabulous opportunity for her! I know how much it must have hurt to be cast last year and not this, it's good she has something great to look forward to.

@allhailthebrain was that a hunchback audition? Today?

[quote Pinkstargazer12]@allhailthebrain was that a hunchback audition? Today?[/quote]
No this was Henrietta yesterday, it's quite a mixed age cast and there are some older parts so it was presumably those older people who were trying for the older profile parts.
Mine is only 13 so read the standard part for under 14s then I think was also asked to read a different scene in the callback.

Well done to your child 😊
Fingers crossed for all of our talented young people.

@allhailthebrain my Dd was in that one and i got exactly the same story!!

Gosh is reserve list for bymt genuine? I’d assumed it was a polite way of letting them down!!! Dd on reserve list...fingers crossed that the vast amount of other things that may or may not happen in the summer depending if travel is allowed don’t get in the way!!!

Fingers crossed everyone! @jamsanman glad it was accurate - not always the case is it lol! Let's hope they both hear good news from that recall...!

Fingers crossed @DorotheaDiamond that the right reserve list opportunity comes up for your daughter :)

Lonecat - thanks for the update on the reserve list. Will be a curve ball if she does get in!

Anyone else do nyt recall this week? Was very good in that they did 1-2-1 work on their piece to see if they took direction etc. Must still have a lot to cut down on though to do the London residentials. We all get told may 12th so very precise and organised.

That sounds good Lonecat! Mine isn't old enough for NYT yet but I remember meeting a Mum while waiting at the NYMT recall last year who said their son (few years older) absolutely loved it!

So got email to say DS (13) is on reserve list for BYMT. But also got another email just after saying just summer camp.
I've emailed them to clarify but is weird.
So if he is on reserves will he have any chance of a show?
Should I book him on summer camp? They say you can transfer across but how much are fees for show if they get in?

Afraid I don't know about BYMT @Quitelikeacatslife but I'm sure someone here will be able to advise.

For NYMT recallers - well done to all the DC for all the prep and emotional reserves needed for this weekend. They are all so talented and have done so well to get this far. Lord knows how the creatives will choose... but if they could please do it quickly and before our gin reserves run out i would be appreciated! Lots of luck everyone - and courage for the waiting.

Does anyone have any idea when NYMT will let musicians know if they have been successful? Will this be after they have done all the other casting?

Allhailtgebrain as mum of one of the two I can tell you that the two girls have NO idea which one of them nailed it hahaha!

Though I hear there was a stunning “Virtually unbeatable” Quasimodo in the first recall on Saturday....?