For Parents

If your child is performing in a show, MusiCal gives you the visibility you need: their calendar on your phone, their conflicts in your hands, and — if you have more than one performer in the family — everyone's schedule in a single color-coded view.

Getting your account

Your account gets created alongside your child's. When your child joins a show — through an audition form or a "Join MusiCal" invite — the signup asks for a parent/guardian, and you receive your own invitation to follow along. You sign in with Google or Microsoft on your own email; there's no separate password.

If you have children in shows with more than one company, or across seasons, it's all one parent account.

Seeing all your children at once

Your dashboard, productions, rehearsals, schedule, and conflicts show every child at once, each with their own color, with a "Show: All / [child]" filter to focus on one when you want. There's no flipping between accounts or views — it's one merged picture of the family's theatre life.

Inside a show, a colored badge for each of your children in that production sits at the top of the page, with a toggle to switch between them or see everyone together.

Calendars

Subscribe to each child's calendar from their show page — each subscription contains every rehearsal that child is called to, plus performance dates and any notes the staff posted (call time changes, what to bring, room changes). The feeds update on their own whenever the director changes the schedule.

On the schedule view, every rehearsal a child is called to gets a dot (calendar) or star (list) in their color — and if a child has a conflict on a rehearsal day, that marker turns red.

Conflicts

You can view and edit your children's conflicts right from the show page. Pick which child a conflict applies to (or all of them) when adding one, and use Duplicate to copy a conflict to your other children in one click. Each child also gets an Overall Notes box for availability notes that don't fit a single date — those are shared with the director.

Times are picked from a clock, so what the director sees is exactly what you set. One thing to know: directors can lock conflicts on a show (new shows start locked). On a locked show you can see conflicts but not change them — ask the director and they can update them for you.

The cast list

Each of your children's shows has a Cast tab listing the full cast. Your own children's rows are expandable (color-coded, with their roles and songs) and you can subscribe to their calendars from there; everyone else is read-only, with no contact details exposed.

Rehearsal reports

When the stage manager sends a rehearsal report, you see your child's copy — what was run that day, the general notes, and any note tagged specifically to your performer.

Common questions

• I signed in but see no productions. Your child may not be cast yet, or the show's schedule may not be published. If it persists, ask the director to check your invite.
• A child is missing from my view. Ask the director to confirm that child's cast entry is linked to their performer profile — the director can fix it from the Cast tab.
• The audition form is for my child, not me. That's fine — fill it out on their behalf. Choose A parent / guardian when the form asks who's creating the account, and the parent/guardian step is where your details go. This is also the answer when your child is too young to have an email address of their own.

For more, see Troubleshooting.