You can use the Virtual Queue or Standby or buy a premium package that comes with snacks including a Rogers specific popcorn bucket and you get to enter the theater first to pick your seats.
Standby you’ll just go to the theater (45 min-1 hr before if you want a better choice of seats) and once they let in the virtual queue they’ll let in what they can accommodate from standby (Another reason not to cut it too close for standby).
We used the Virtual Queue. Are you familiar with grabbing a virtual queue spot? If not, this thread has a good overview of tips. Note while most of the details still apply, the times will be all inaccurate since the post was when VQ was used for rides and at the time in WDW only.
To get a boarding group for the musical the accurate times are:
- 10:30am - First drop where you could obtain a group for the first two shows at 12:15pm or 1:45pm
- 2:00pm- Second drop for the later two shows at 4:00pm or 5:30pm
For virtual queue they will call your group about 40 minutes before the show. We did not see our notification come in and I was waiting until the last possible minute so the toddlers could go potty before we went in (there are no bathrooms inside the theater so you have to completely exit & re-enter if there is a need) and we showed up just at 30 min before but right as they were letting in the standby folks. So come earlier than we did.