Congratulations On Your Callback!

Callbacks are a great opportunity for the Directing team to see more of your talents and abilities. This page will have all the information you need to know to help you prepare.  

Callbacks are "closed." This means that there will not be an audience for callbacks. 

Here are some callback tips:
  • Release yourself of all expectations (yes, ALL. Meaning, you should not have any expectations. Zero. None.). Callbacks are not in your control. Your job is to show up, do your best, and go home. Release yourself from the pressure that you are in control and that you must do everything correctly. There are dozens of factors that go into casting a show. 
  • Be open and prepared for anything. The directing team has been known to change things up in the room at the last minute. It would be in your best interest to be familiar with the entire show. 
  • Arrive at callbacks early. Early is a least 10 minutes before your scheduled time. If you walk in the door "on time", you're already late. Check-in begins 15 minutes before each call time. (See below)
  • Get sleep the night before your callback. It's imperative that you're well-rested. Callbacks are long and high-intense days. 

Dance & Callback Schedule

Dance Auditions | Sunday-Jun-22 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
ALL CALL- choose Mover or Dancer. Tap optional.

Role Callbacks | Sunday-Jun-22 2:00 PM-5:00 PM by invitation

Location: 907 West Main Street, Lewisville (Same location as Auditions)
*Please note that the dance auditions and callbacks are closed to audiences. Only students and staff will be allowed into the building. If you need to reach a student, text a staff member, as students will have their phones put away.*

See the auditions page for the mover/dancer/tap routines.

If you do not have a character callback, please be picked up promptly at the end of your dance audition time.
Those who are called back for roles should stay after Dance auditions. 

If you are called for a named role, you will be released when we are finished with your scenes or songs. Please have a ride who can get you within a short period of time when you text them. There will be an adult on site who can text you if your student does not have a phone. 

Dance Audition Material

Use these videos to practice your dance. We will also briefly go over them as a group before you perform them in small groups.
 

What Should I Prepare?

Get to know your character and what they sing (if they sing.) We don't want to see replicas of how other people have played the role, but we do want you to be familiar with the characters and the songs. Check out the professional cast recordings in advance to know how the songs go. We will have scripts and sheet music for you at callbacks with the selected cuts we want to hear. We will not spend a lot of time teaching the songs. 

Be PREPARED to sing ALL of the character songs you are called back for while EXPECTING to sing NONE of them.

Amazon Prime has the 1995 TV movie starring Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams. It is the closest source material to our leased material. Note that there are added songs in the movie that we do not have rights to and are not adding to our production including A Mother Doesn't Matter, Let's Settle Down and Bye Bye Birdie. It's not exact and we are not looking for imitations, however, given our short rehearsal period, reference material will be helpful.

Questions?

Do you have a question? First, ensure that you've read everything thoroughly. Still can't find your answer? Shoot us an email at contactus@cytdallas.org.

Have You Ever Wanted to Understand the Casting Process?

Check out this video, The Casting Process, where Dr. Heather LaForge discusses the CYT casting process. This is a very small example of how complex a casting process can be. Imagine this video with 30+ students.