Face Characters

Ryan started his rehearsals yesterday. He’s playing in a house band that does backup for live shows and does smaller gigs around the park. His rehearsals are very different from mine. He’s just playing music while I’m playing characters.

I should also be able to play some of the famous characters and walk around the park taking pictures with people and just being goofy – but not Goofy. Ryan’s too tall to be any of the characters. I guess they would rather have us fit the costumes than fit the costumes to us. They’re pretty strict about it. The funny part is, Ryan is not all that tall back home. But anyone over 5’2 is never going to be Mickey. That’s not good for some of the Australians. They’re a tall bunch. I guess it’s better for the Chinese. They’re not exactly the tallest people in the world. Face characters have to speak English, though. I don’t think Mickey & Minnie speak at all, so they can be Chinese. At their height, they certainly can’t be Australian.