Mary Jo, you might want to change your first post on this. It is every day now!!! It's really quite wonderful, the music is fabulous.
We never saw the CMs who gave away the tickets and wondered if they had pre-picked them much earlier. We were there about 35 min early and the CM in charge told us they would be out there before the show. But that never happened.
We ended up happy because we would not have been able to see the show if we were on the boat. But for a second visit, that would be a lot of fun. It looked like they choose three large families.
Two good positions: one is on the upper tier, so you can see the parade. The other is the center part (like for Fantasmic) as that is where the boat stops for the show.
Thanks for alerting us about this, Mary Jo!