I’m still alive – I promise!
I realize that my last post was 8 September, and today is 20 October, but I swear I haven’t forgotten about this. I just haven’t had anything new to say. The parents are fully on board with Disney, I found a roommate and two suitemates, and I decided to audition for character performer. It turns out that Disney is trying something new regarding character performers, and accepted people before the auditions. Not to be a performer, but to be other roles, just in case they don’t pass the audition, so that they aren’t rejected outright because of how late the auditions are in the season.
Confused? Before this application season applicants who picked character performer as their number one role would have their applications set aside until after the auditions. If they passed, they were character performers. (Yay!) If they didn’t pass, then their other role choices would be considered. But since the auditions are so late in the season then they usually either got Quick Service (which requires soooooooo many CPers) or they just got rejected. (Boo!) This time around people got accepted for a role (like say, attractions) but if they go to an audition and pass, their role will be changed to character performer. It just works better this way I think.
Now I thought this was all fine and dandy for other people, but I didn’t select character performer on my role checklist, nor was I asked any questions about that role in my interview. A couple weeks ago I decided, hey, I want to try to be a performer too, and I emailed the CP recruiting team. They said that I could still audition and if I passed my role would be changed. Yay! So now I’ll be attending the 4 November Atlanta audition! (2 weeks and 1 day away..) Another thing they changed is that all the auditions are pretty close together, as opposed to being several weeks apart. This means that every city should have an about equal chance, where as before the last audition spot may come after all the available roles have already been taken. I think the first audition is for the extending CPs on 28 Oct, and the last audition is on 8 November. So not that far apart.
I’m pretty excited! I’ve been taking dance to brush up on mah mad skillz, and it’s been really fun. I haven’t danced since the summer, so I was kind of rusty. Hopefully I won’t look silly at the auditions. The Atlanta one is open to people looking for full-time work as well, so there’ll probably be a lot of people there. It’s pretty likely that I’m not going to be a performer – I’m 5’4.5ish” tall, so I’m in a really common height. (Actually I think all heights in the 5 foot range are common. They’re looking for shorties and giants.) But the Disneyauditions.com website says they’re looking for parade performers too, so maybe I could do that.
But not making performer would definitely not be the end of the world. I was really excited for attractions before this opportunity arose, and I’m still super psyched for it. I read somewhere that you’re more likely to get your work location request if you pay your acceptance fee early. I was accepted really early and I paid on 7 Sept, so maybe that was early enough to earn me my own Kilimanjaro Safaris truck!
Jeez.. I meant this post to just be a word or two about how I’m not dead. Instead I wrote a novel. Oh well. Happy 78 days till Disney!
