BBEXP
How we work
FFROM YOUR FIRST REGISTRATION TO YOUR FINAL CURTAIN CALL‚ HERE’S EXACTLY HOW IT WORKS
YOUR EXPERIENCE JOURNEY
BBEXP operates to a professional production model. The process below is the same process used to build every show‚ from the first online registration through to the moment the curtain comes down on closing night.
PHASE 1
Getting Started
1. Online Registration
Your journey starts on our website. Complete the registration form for the production you want to audition for. We’ll be in touch to confirm your audition details and send everything you need to prepare.
Spaces are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Don’t leave it late.
2. Initial Auditions
You’ll be invited to attend an in-person audition or submit an online audition from home. Sessions are high-energy and designed to let your talent shine.
Come prepared. Come ready to perform.
3. Acceptance & Sign-Up
Offers are made following your audition. Accept your place, pay your participation fee, and you are officially on board.
From this point forward, you are part of the cast.
PHASE 2
Casting & Preparation
4. Principal Audition Pack
If you wish to be considered for a principal role, you will receive a full audition pack following your initial offer – including specific script extracts, vocal material, and choreography notes for the role.
Principal auditions take place on Registration Day. You can audition for whatever role you feel best suits your abilities. This stage is open to all ages.
PHASE 3
Preparation & Recalls
5. Registration/Recall Day
The full cast comes together for the first time. This is where we meet the whole company, work through the music and choreography as a group, and confirm any final administrative details‚ including your uniform.
If you are auditioning for a principal role, your audition takes place in the afternoon session.
6. Look Book
Before rehearsals begin, you’ll receive a Look Book‚ a guide to the costumes that you’ll be required to source or borrow for the production.
BBEXP provides key costume elements. The Look Book tells you exactly what you need to bring.
PHASE 4
Week 1: Learning the Show
7. Vocals & Choreography
The first week is focused entirely on building the show from the ground up. You’ll work through the full score with our musical director, master the choreography with the full company, and begin moving scenes on their feet.
This is intensive work. It is designed to be.
8. The Band Call
Towards the end of Week 1, you’ll perform the score with a live professional band for the first time. This is a significant milestone in any production – and the moment the show stops feeling like rehearsal and starts feeling like performance.
PHASE 5
Week 2: Putting it Together
9. Piecing the Show
Week 2 is about integration. Scenes, numbers, and transitions are built into a complete, continuous run. The creative team lock the staging, confirm all production requirements scene by scene, and begin shaping the full arc of the show.
10. Studio Run-Throughs
The cast performs full run-throughs of the production in the rehearsal studio‚ building stamina, tightening transitions, and locking the pace.
Our technical team uses this period to build their full cue-to-cue documentation. By the end of Week 2, the show is ready for the theatre.
PHASE 6
Production Week in the Theatre
11. The Move In
The rehearsal studio is left behind. The company moves directly into a major professional venue – and the full production environment takes over. Lighting. Sound. Staging. Sight lines. Entrances and exits.
This is where all of the studio work start to look like a show.
12. Technical Rehearsals
The “tech” phase works through every cue, transition, and staging element methodically, with the full production team – live sound, lighting, and microphone cues worked in real time.
It can be slow. It is essential. Every BBEXP cast member experiences what a proper technical rehearsal looks like – because this is what a proper production looks like.
13. Dress Rehearsals
Before the audience arrives, the company runs full dress rehearsals – costumes, full production, every cast member on stage. The exact precision and excitement of a real show without stopping.
By the time Opening Night arrives, this cast will have lived it already.
PHASE 7
Showtime and Beyond
14. Opening Night
Two full, fully staged performances in front of a paying audience at a major professional venue.
This is what everything has been building towards. The standard expected is the same on Opening Night as it was on Day One of rehearsals. It is non-negotiable.
15. The Final Curtain
Completing a professional-grade musical production is a significant achievement. Take your bows. Celebrate the company you’ve worked alongside for two weeks.
Return your BBEXP costume. Take your personal items home. Hold on to everything else.
PHASE 8
Next Year
16. Post Show Blues
Cancel your holidays and get next year’s dates in your diary so that you can do it all over again with a brand-new show and a brand-new family of performers. Take your favourite images so that you can remember this experience for ever.
The fix is simple: register early, and start working on what comes next.
BBEXP alumni return year on year. Many go on to conservatoire training, professional touring productions, and careers across the performing arts.
READY TO JOIN THE EXPERIENCE?
Apply Now!Beyond Broadway played a huge part in shaping me as a performer. Creating a full show in just two weeks helped me build confidence, develop new skills, and learn the professionalism needed for a career in theatre. I also made friendships that I know will last a lifetime. The experience gave me the tools and self-belief to pursue my career, and I genuinely wouldn’t be where I am today without it.
Kieran Lynch
Starlight Express
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