Are you skilled at puppetry and live in the Orlando area? If so, how does being a part of the upcoming show The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure (or the current Festival of the Lion King) sound? Disney Live Entertainment is accepting online additions through February 25.
What’s Happening:
- Disney Live Entertainment is seeking energetic performers with puppetry experience, for puppeteer roles within the Character Department at Walt Disney World.
- This includes casting for the new show The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios (and replacing Voyage of the Little Mermaid)
- Those submitting for a role must be 5’2″ – 6’3″, with puppeteering experience to help bring to life The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure and Festival of the Lion King.
- Puppeteers will use their skills to interact with guests and tell classic Disney tales using a variety of puppeteering techniques and styles, from hand-and-rod, to mechanical, to full-body parade puppets.
- Applicants have until Sunday, February 25, 2024 to submit your online audition.
- Click here for more details and how to send your audition.
What to Expect at the Callback:
- If selected to move to the next round, the audition will begin with a very basic movement combination, and an improv animation exercise, with performers using their whole body to act out a storyline.
- Following this, performers will learn a basic puppeteer exercise.
- Using ping-pong ball eyes attached to their hands, performers will create a basic puppet and lip-sync along to popular music.
- Performers will be graded on syncopation, ability to match syllables to lyrics, and overall creativity.
- Selected performers will then be asked to puppeteer hand-and-rod style puppets.
Requirements:
- Must be at least 18 years of age, and authorized to work in the United States.
- This audition opportunity is OPEN to current Character Performers.
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