The following information has been provided to better prepare you, our performers and families, for your 1st or 101st audition at OBCT. Please familiarize yourself with what expect at auditions and while participating in a OBCT show. We hope this information will answer questions concerning the audition process, rehearsal schedule and performance.
Please plan on the audition process taking up to 2 or 3 hours, depending on how many people have arrived ahead of you in line. For each audition, auditionees and their families are put into groups of 10. You will attend the following meetings and registration process, followed by the actual audition with these same 10 people.
Step One: Informational Meeting – Mandatory for all participants/families When you arrive at OBCT, you will attend a mandatory informational meeting for performers and their parents/guardians. Our goal is that every family will begin the process within 30 minutes of arriving at OBCT. During the meeting, veteran parents will talk about OBCT, its history and mission, go over the audition process and answer any questions you may have. All meeting participants will also receive an audition packet, conflict calendar, general rehearsal schedule, and OBCT Policies form at that time. (Or we encourage you to download an audition packet from our website or pick up one prior to the audition day). If you don’t fill these out before you arrive, you'll be asked to complete the audition packet, conflict calendar and OBCT Policies form following the Informational Meeting.
Step Two: Review of Conflicts Calendar Next, you will review your completed conflict calendar with a production representative. Conflicts will not be accepted the last 10 days of rehearsal or during performances. If you have too many conflicts on your calendar,
you may not be eligible for lead roles, or it may be recommended that you not audition.
Step Three: Registration Once your conflict calendar has been signed, you will move to the registration station. There, you will be assigned an audition number, your forms and tuition fees will be collected. To help the artistic staff identify you, a volunteer will take your photo and attach your photo to your forms.
Step Four: Audition Auditionees will be brought into the studio 10 at time. Each group will be taught a short dance routine. You will be asked to perform the dance combination with others from your group. Next each individual performers will be asked to sing their prepared song and read a line from the show which you will be given with your
registration materials. Immediately after your group has completed its audition, some people may be asked to come back later in the week for a call back for specific roles. Those not needed at callbacks are considered “cast” and will be receive information about your first rehearsal. The show’s director will let everyone in the group know when the cast list is scheduled to be posted. If you have been asked to return for callbacks and have a conflict at that time, please let the director(s) know immediately. If you have not been asked to attend call
backs, congratulations! Don’t feel bad that you haven’t been asked back, it just means we’ve seen what we need to see to cast you in the show.
