I'm in!!! Got my email yesterday (it's only been a week!), I'm in Housekeeping!!
Can't wait to meet everyone!!!
Just got my acceptance for fall advantage BBB!
Going to the Boston auditions too!
And still waiting/hoping for a PI!
Hey everyone! Im usually on the W.I.S.H. dis forum.... But since I just got off the phone for my fall2010 cp interview I figured I'd post a quick hey! So is everyone whose getting accepted getting their first choices? or what is it looking like? I wanted character performer, but when I found out there is no chance at performing in parades I said no thanks.... So right now I request BBB for my first and LG for my 2nd.... Any advice?
I just got off the phone w/ the interview lady. And wanted to make sure it'd be worth me going to to audition for. Since I only wanted to be a parade or show dancer. And she said to be considered NOW for a parade performer you need to now be in the guild/equity group to be considered as a performer/dancer (idk when this was enforced but it may be new....???). She said its not worth the time of training for the CP. And I asked "I dont want to be rude and double question you... But I live an hour away, lets say I took a seasonal position after the cp would that change the situation? Or is it flat out a no for what I want out of the audition and being in the cp?" She said no she strongly recommends me against it. First if you make the audition its character only for cp now... Also if I did qualify even as an advanced dancer it'd be for a fur character. If I was a good choice for face cp still does fur 80% of the time. Idk did not like the sounds of it, and personally I'm not gonna sweat it too much myself. Idk how accurate she could have been (I've gotten alot of bad information from everywhere in disney to be honest), but she said I wouldn't waste my time if I were you. And I told her I've done dance for years and danced on company levels for 7 years, and have gone away for intensives all over. And really I'm going more for the experience rather then the self accomplishment of making parade performer... When I transfer to UCF I can work pt as a performer... Idk I thought about to do the audition just to see, and see if she was wrong. But didn't want to get stuck with something I don't want to be doing. Cause when I asked, she said if I made the audition I would lose my prior job offer.
That last part isn't true either, as far as I know. I was under the impression that you have the option to pick one or the other - you can reject your Character Performer role. At least, that's how I interpreted it. I don't know if anyone ever has actually done that, but I heard you get your decision email, and have one to two weeks to accept or decline.
It is true though, you will most likely be doing fur. Depends how tall you are - parade movers (dancers) are usually taller - Pluto height, I believe.
And I am pretty sure it's really difficult to get hours as a PT Entertainment - a lot of people are doing the CP just because it's the only way to get enough hours as a character.
If it's something you want to do, you might as well try out. I don't know if there's a place to write down that you only want to do parades - or if you can even say that and they'll take it into account. It's all color-coded though, so if you do well enough, you'll be coded to do parades.
you cant only do perades or only do face you have to do fur to do both