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| 126.1 | Trumpet player | SIMUL::WIEDEMAN | | Fri Jul 28 1989 12:31 | 10 |
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When we went to the Magic Kingdom 2 years ago the marching band was
playing in Liberty square. During a break one of the trumpet players
came over and spent about 10 minutes talking to my kids about WDW and
about them, etc. My kids really enjoyed the fact that he took the time
to talk to them. They still talk about it today. I think these little
extras that the entertainers do on their own really makes WDW a special
place.
Doug
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| 126.2 | romeo, where for art thou? | MASADA::TEMP | | Mon Jul 30 1990 17:41 | 11 |
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I agree.
My grandparents took me to the MK and Epcot a couple of years ago when
I was in college. At Epcot, country was England I think, two street
performers in Renaissance clothes started calling people around to
watch their performance of Romeo & Juliet...and picked people from the
crowd to help them. What fun!! They picked my grandfather to be Romeo
and he enjoyed every minute (what a ham!) The actual performers were
GREAT...spontaneous, great at ad-libbing, Disney must have some expert
people signing the performers up. the whole crowd was impressed!
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| 126.3 | it was in the square | XNOGOV::KAREN | when you wish upon a star... | Tue Jul 31 1990 10:07 | 7 |
| We saw the street performers in England. They even had English
accents!
It was good fun. A real crowd gathered and they picked people to play
various parts.
Karen
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| 126.4 | That's because they are English. | WOTVAX::BATTY | The Seaweed is Always Greener... | Tue Jul 31 1990 13:56 | 18 |
| Karen,
The majority of cast members, including street performers,
in each of the Epcot countries, are recruited from the
'sponsoring' country, so it's no wonder they had
English/French/Norwegian/Chinese/Mexican etc accents.
On the flight back after Christmas, we got talking to a
couple who had just been out to visit their daughter who was
working in 'England'. She had written to the WDW Recruiting Office
several times asking for vacancies without any success, then saw
an ad in a London paper looking for young people who could dance
or sing. She applied, was accepted for a six(?) month contract,
and ended up working in the Pringle Knitwear shop. Despite not
using her talents, she was thoroughly enjoying herself. Her
parents were also very much relieved when they saw the tight
controls that Disney had over her moral and social wellbeing.
Mike in Warrington.
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| 126.5 | Not necessarily | DELREY::STERN_TO | Have TK; Will Travel | Wed Oct 24 1990 16:51 | 29 |
| re: .4
>>> -< That's because they are English. >-
>>>
>>> Karen,
>>> The majority of cast members, including street performers,
>>> in each of the Epcot countries, are recruited from the
>>> 'sponsoring' country, so it's no wonder they had
>>> English/French/Norwegian/Chinese/Mexican etc accents.
Majority maybe, but not all. When I was in EPCOT I watched the
Italian performers (of Il Teatro de Bologna), and was struck by how
their performers (and act) reminded me of something I had seen at the
Los Angeles Rennaissance Faire. Three months later I was in line for
Space Mountain in Disneyland, and something about one of the busquers
struck me as being familiar.
When I asked her if she had been an Italian in Florida earlier that
year, she first said "That was me in another life," but off-line
admitted that in those areas where English proficiency is truly needed
they have been known to hire actors who SOUND Italian.
Of course, it probably wasn't hard to get English people to be able
to meet U.S. proficiency standards: all they had to do was forget half
of what they already knew.
Tom Stern
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| 126.6 | Good accent but... | COEM::SCOPA | MAJOR | Fri Oct 26 1990 14:30 | 6 |
| Tom,
While in Epcot this year I watched these performers. Two of the three
were Italian.
Mike_whose_100%_Italian_heritage_cannot be fooled.
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