Piazza Navona: Standing Still Street Performers

While eating a meal in the Piazza I could not keep my eyes off of the standing still street performer people and wondered where they got the ideas for their outfits. One of which was a Statue of Liberty but for some reason was all white, the other being a pharoah wrapped in gold. There was a moving person who was dressed as Charlie Chaplin but he was not the most interesting out of them all. While watching the pharoah guy he never moved unless you put money in his bucket thing and then he would bow to you. It blew my mind how he had the control to not move whatsoever for such an extended period of time, I would get so incredibly bored doing that and he must have been boiling in that outfit because it was early afternoon and the sun was beating down on the piazza. His gold wrapping must have been functioning as an insulator as well and I could only imagine how he must have been sweating bullets. Oddly enough though after some time he took off the costume, picked up the money and walked away leaving everything behind. After about five or ten minutes another person (and it was definitely another person, different clothes, skin tone etc.) came in and took the place of the original guy as the pharoah. So we discussed then for a bit if they were employed by someone else maybe and not just self employed street performers. The reasoning behind that was that it seemed like it was a shift change, and if people were doing that in shifts then that would explain them behind hired to do such on a separate wage pay. Of course I guess it could just be two guys working together as street performers employed by themselves and they just give eachother breaks when necessary but that seems like a bit of planning just to be standing around motionless in a piazza dressed ridiculously.