Character Heights/CP Auditions

[Joanna71985]

I am. I've been on my current CP since Aug, and I've worked at Disney on and off since Jan 2005.

 

[Berlioz70]

I had my CP in Fall 2008 and never left.

 

[seobaina]

ooh cool. I'm coming out there with two fellow UK Cms this April 18th...will have to keep an eye out for you. A 'little sis' of mine is on the program at the mo too, working in Fantasyland merchandise.

 

[missalice]

^^^^ Thanks guys! I'm really excited! Good luck to everyone else at their auditions too!

 

[heyhowdyhey]

i got a question cuz i know for the auditions you need a face shot i think lol but does that still apply to a cp audition.

 

[Joanna71985]

No. That is not necessary for a CP audition

 

[ipodluvr287]

I know its rare for CPs to be trained as parade performers, but are there any parade dancers that are around 5'0?

 

[Joanna71985]

It's not too common for parade movers to be that short. Usually parade performers around 5'0 are fur characters.

 

[ipodluvr287]

Thanks

 

[r1009t]

Has anyone ever found a blog/vlog of a face character that is in parades, shows, etc? Or just know someone who does shows/parades, and shared their experiances? I'm trying to find out more about that aspect of entertainment... that kind of information seems hard to come by so anything would be helpful.

 

[PennyLou]

I've done Parades (they are my fav thing about entertainment).. if you want more in for on that I can help.

 

[Kayticheer101]

PennyLou:

that would be awesome if you shared info on parade performer! Im 5'2-5'3.. cheerleading and gymnastics all my life. and some dance....what do you think my chances are. Any info or advice?

 

[ipodluvr287]

Are CPs allowed to be in Fantasmic?

 

[ZeroToHero]

Are CPs allowed to be in Fantasmic?

Oo. I was wrong. See Joanna's post below.

 

[Joanna71985]

Are CPs allowed to be in Fantasmic?

Yes. But it would be EXTREMELY rare (especially with Fantasmic at 2 nights a week usually). The cast is mostly FTers.

 

[ipodluvr287]

Yes. But it would be EXTREMELY rare (especially with Fantasmic at 2 nights a week usually). The cast is mostly FTers.

Thanks Does anyone know if Fantasmic will run more than 2 nights a week during the summer? I would assume it would because summer is the busier season.

 

[PennyLou]

Thanks Does anyone know if Fantasmic will run more than 2 nights a week during the summer? I would assume it would because summer is the busier season.

last summer it didn't run every night like it used to because the park now used American Idol as its closing show most nights (sooo lame)

 

[PennyLou]

PennyLou:

that would be awesome if you shared info on parade performer! Im 5'2-5'3.. cheerleading and gymnastics all my life. and some dance....what do you think my chances are. Any info or advice?

Well its deff a plus that you are a cheerleader as I'm guessing you have to learn rutines and stuff which is great it will help you in your audtion which is how they base your color code (which is how they decided what you can be trained in) so yay for that. I mean I don't know what your dance skill is 100% but Block Party bash is heavy dancing (though they might used taller girls) high school Musical is heavy dance. and then the pre parades for give a day get a day is heavy dance they might let shorter gals do. Most of the movers are a bit taller then you are I think but there are some in spectro magic in your height (though that is going away for the summer). But if you are lucky and get traind I would deff expect more so to be trained in fur things so like the munks or whoever else is in your height range. Also it just depends on timing and stuff you could have a good color code but be put on a long list of people for the same role.

Anyway, I love doing parades, they are like 3 hours of work and you get paid for 4 and they are just really fun and as a CP it was the only place I saw the same people all the time, otherwise we bounce around a lot from location to location as needed. So that was nice. Generally for fur you learn any where from one to all the tracks in your height range I learned 3 in the same parade when I was a CP which was nice because I could do it more often but some people just learned one. You pretty much go in hang out get your costume, warm up, hang out get half dressed and wait, then you get fully dresses and run the parade. Its a lot of fun most of the time its like 5 counts of 8 or something that you just repeat over and over for a 32 min parade but its a lot of fun. IDK if you have any questions I would ansower them I'm not sure whatelese to say about it lol

 

[Kayticheer101]

Okay thanks do you know what the main hours a week range from for character performer and parade performer.. all that?

 

[PennyLou]

Okay thanks do you know what the main hours a week range from for character performer and parade performer.. all that?

well as a cp they have to give you 30 hours as a munk or a puppy you'll prob get just about that. a mouse, face, maybe goofy will prob get more. durin peek atandance I was once schudules 52 hours but thats only at really crazy times like around easter or the 4th of july. You can always try and pick up more hours they will explain how you do that in training, some times its very easy to do that some times its not, just depeds on the week.