Local product Steven Emory was signed after an open tryout during preseason. He attended a professional baseball tryout in Saskatoon but did not make the team. The cast had six weeks of rehearsals before the pre-Broadway tryout. Casaus had his first WWE tryout at the FCW training center in 2007. In February 2016 he would participate in another WWE tryout. The match appeared to be a tryout for both wrestlers. After seeing Koufax pitch for Lafayette, Campanis invited him to an Ebbets Field tryout. In April 2019 he competed at another WWE tryout. Brooks had to select from 68 players who started the tryout. Natalya was one of the children selected and received an invitation to a tryout. His first tryout came three years later. He received a WWE tryout in July 2015. The October 2012 pre-Broadway Chicago tryout was announced on February 22, 2012. Some changes were made after the Chicago tryout. The musical had its pre-Broadway tryout at New Haven's Shubert Theatre.