Do they? How do you get that job?
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There is a hotline on www.disneycareers.com
You have to audition- for "costumed characters" The audition is Six to eight hours long in the costume while you improvise different situations with other characters. Those auditions are based on height. I believe the starting pay for this type of character is 10/ hour
I do not know how the audition process goes for face characters, but I do know the pay is a little better 11-14/ hour.
I do know they are hiring right now.Last edited by dramaqueen; 04-03-2005, 12:50 PM.Check out the News Forum for the latest news with a Micechat twist!
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They spend more time in a shift onstage and because they speak to guests, they must be trained not to make any kind of mistake, I once heard that if a CM who plays a face character is recognized in the "real world", they have to play it off. Example "ooo, Snow White, what are you doing at Albertson's?" "Um I am buying groceries for the seven dwarves"
They have to be on their feet and have a more difficult illusion to maintain. Some of them are also parade performers as well, so I think that has something to do with it and I know the princesses are interchangable (as are the coustumed ones).
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Originally posted by dramaqueenThere is a hotline on www.disneycareers.com
You have to audition- for "costumed characters" The audition is three to four house long in the costume while you improvise different situations with other characters. Those auditions are based on height. I believe the starting pay for this type of character is 10/ hour
I do not know how the audition process goes for face characters, but I do know the pay is a little better 11-14/ hour.
I do know they are hiring right now.~ Tasty, yet morally ambiguous! ~
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The non-face characters have a particularly hazardous job and many of them are frequently injured. I knew of a performer who played Donald Duck (they use "little people" to play Donald and Daisy) and was beaten up so badly while on stage that she refused to go back to performing and was transferred to cast costuming because of it. Many of the less popular characters don't have handlers when they go out and are suceptable to abuse. Pretty sad that parents would bring their Kids to Disneyland and let them beat up Donald Duck. Probably the result of the SOCal "babysitter" AP's.Check out the News Forum for the latest news with a Micechat twist!
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Originally posted by dramaqueenMany of the less popular characters don't have handlers when they go out and are suceptable to abuse.
Is Entertainment going to listen? Probably not... But I might complain again if I catch it happening again... The problem is I do not want the CM to get flack for this complaint... It isn't their fault...Check out my other blog:
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Originally posted by dramaqueenMany of the less popular characters don't have handlers when they go out and are suceptable to abuse.
This was the first time I can recall seeing characters without handlers with them. I was a bit surprised.
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Originally posted by GwyrenOn Easter I was surpised to see Woody walking around without a handler (back by the petting zoo). Also, coming in that morning I saw Goofy and Eeyore without handlers.
This was the first time I can recall seeing characters without handlers with them. I was a bit surprised.
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Not all characters go out with Character/Entertainment hosts (which you have been refering to as 'handlers'). It just depends.
And yes, being a character or parade performer at disney parks is very much a job that people take for granted. It is very physical and demanding.
How are WDW college program auditions different?
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I have to say that I was at DL over spring break and two things surprised me. First of all ... they had Tom and Huck, first they were walking around Big Thunder and Frontierland area and pointing at things and looking all surprised. And then later they were on TSI. It was really cool, all the little kids were asking questions. I think the most memorable one was, "Why do you have to fish?" and the character said, without a smirk, "So Huck and I Can Eat!" In a PERFECT accent. It was also really cool because he was using twigs to draw maps to the treasure on TSI.
The other thing that was kind of sad, was Cruella DeVill in DCA was sitting on her chair and not a single person came up to her while I stood there for nearly a half an hour. I felt so bad for her!Originally posted by drunkmomthis is my first buzzed post in the DMCA -- I'm really in this club because I'm a bitch more than anything. I've only had to hit the backspace 4 (oops, make that 5) times in (now 7) in this (now 9) (now 15) in this post! Damn, now I'm up to 18! Our neighbors were (19) (20) making tequilla sunrises. I thought I couldn't do tequilla (22) anymore but (24) this stuff (26) was good! It started (27) with an s
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Originally posted by MiceManThe other thing that was kind of sad, was Cruella DeVill in DCA was sitting on her chair and not a single person came up to her while I stood there for nearly a half an hour. I felt so bad for her!
She's like Michael Eisner in that respect, though. :lol:My fondest memory of Walt Disney was the day Disneyland opened....I was standing next to him - I was 12 years old - he was looking at the gate where people were coming through, he had his hands behind his back, he had a grin from ear to ear, but you could see the lump in his throat and the tear coming down his cheek because his dream had been realized. -- Mouseketeer Sharon Baird, "Mouseke-Memories", Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club
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Originally posted by dramaqueenExample "ooo, Snow White, what are you doing at Albertson's?" "Um I am buying groceries for the seven dwarves"My fondest memory of Walt Disney was the day Disneyland opened....I was standing next to him - I was 12 years old - he was looking at the gate where people were coming through, he had his hands behind his back, he had a grin from ear to ear, but you could see the lump in his throat and the tear coming down his cheek because his dream had been realized. -- Mouseketeer Sharon Baird, "Mouseke-Memories", Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club
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