novawildcat18
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I'm going to audition for the College Program. I would love to be a face character or a performer (just not a fur character)!
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Disney World Character Auditions
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Tori
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Face character also do fur aswell.
novawildcat18
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They have to do both? Well, I wouldn't refuse to be a fur character, it's just not my top choice. If I had to be a fur character sometimes to be a face character, it'd be worth it for me.
hollywoodj
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Good luck. I personally wouldn't go into an audition with that attitude, considering hundreds audition every week and would take ANY position offered in Disney entertainment. Just sayin'.
CaptainShortty
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College program are rarely performers and are usually fur characters. They are sometimes pulled as face although they usually are fur as well. Getting pulled to do parades/shows is incrediy competitive and usually only given to those students who are there for 6+ months due to the training commitment. Even then, after you get trained you're probably going to be a back-up and may never actually get used.
novawildcat18
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I'm just sayin' I would rather take an attractions/concierge job than work as a fur character. So I'm basically just auditioning to see what happens. What have I got to lose? Nothing. So I'm not going to take just any position offered, I would take a position that I wanted. And if I don't get offered any job in Disney entertainment (which will most likely be the case), than that's fine with me.
Interesting. I actually know a kid from my high school who was in the parades for his CP, maybe I should ask him about his experience. Thanks for the insight though! As I said before, I'm just going to audition for the heck of it, I've got nothing to lose. If a great opportunity presents itself, I would love to take it. If not, I'll enjoy my CP (if I am accepted) in another way.
novawildcat18
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Sorry for the double-post and the bump, but my audition is coming up and I have some questions. If by some odd chance that I make it through to the final cut and am eventually offered a position as a character performer, will they tell me what character(s) I will be playing/if I'm cast as a parade member?
Also, I think I know the answer to this already but is there any character performer position where I can also work in the Full Service Food & Beverage role that I have already been assigned? I'm assuming this is going to be a no, since I think that a character performer is a full time job.
Also, I think I know the answer to this already but is there any character performer position where I can also work in the Full Service Food & Beverage role that I have already been assigned? I'm assuming this is going to be a no, since I think that a character performer is a full time job.
hollywoodj
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Firstly, They'll tell you on the phone who your "VIP" character will be, and from there, there may be several others in your height range that you can portray that you'll be able to find out after training. CP's are not typically chosen to learn parades other than Halloween and Christmas, but if you do, they won't tell you when you're hired. It'll just appear on your schedule one day.
Second, You can't do other types of work at the same time as being in Entertainment unless you started out in Food/Beverage and were trained, then chosen for entertainment and trained. Then you could pick up extra shifts in food/beverage outside of your entertainment shifts. I have a friend who does this now. It's not likely for that to happen during a CP unless you extend at the end into entertainment.
Second, You can't do other types of work at the same time as being in Entertainment unless you started out in Food/Beverage and were trained, then chosen for entertainment and trained. Then you could pick up extra shifts in food/beverage outside of your entertainment shifts. I have a friend who does this now. It's not likely for that to happen during a CP unless you extend at the end into entertainment.
novawildcat18
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Ah ok, thanks for the information! I will stick with Full Service Food & Beverage then. I think I'm still going to audition just for the experience and on the (extremely slim) chance that I get chosen as one of those "VIP" characters. I won't be able to extend due to my college schedule but I can tell I will be very tempted!
hollywoodj
Active Member
You're pretty lucky to have been chosen for full service, but entertainment is the best department to work for IMO. 
You'll have fun regardless.
You'll have fun regardless.
novawildcat18
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It's hard because I know I would probably have the best time in the entertainment department (if I somehow was admitted) but I need some sort of professional benefit out of the program. I'm a business major and when I go for a job interview and I tell them I dressed up as Tigger every day for a semester, they won't be too impressed.You're pretty lucky to have been chosen for full service, but entertainment is the best department to work for IMO.
lego606
MagicBandit
Not if you frame a different way. You're going into business. Disney is all about the business. You got first-hand experience with guest service at a Fortune 100 company.
In my friend's experience, the interviewers were more interested in stuff like "are there really tunnels under Disney World?"
novawildcat18
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Definitely true but even hosting at a restaurant gives more direct first-hand experience than performing as a character in the business world. Maybe I need to put some more thought into it. Another concern of mine would be my dad's opinion since he is skeptical of the whole program in the first place.