"...living on a cruise ship..."
I knew an older guy - a retired pastor. He had made his way onto the list for being the ship’s Chaplin. He was always going on a cruise with various shipping lines, and bringing his wife along.
I’d sooner shoot myself.
If you have no talents, you can get a job at the Weekly Standard and give speeches to mostly empty cruise ship auditoriums.
Steady employment if you are in that line of work. 6-8 month contracts with a lengthy break between contracts if you decide to stay on.
Of course, there’s more to it than just rehearsals and stage performances. You are also part of the ship’s crew and will be required to conduct other duties like safety drills and scheduled ship activities with passengers.
We sailed Celebrity in 2017, having heard it was a step up from our regular — Princess.
The Celebrity entertainment was seriously DREADFUL!! My 7-year-old nice was in a little performance in her town and it was more professional.
I used to be pretty high up in IT at royal Caribbean / Celebrity.
I would go on about 3 weeks of cruises per year to babysit some project install.
Living on a ship is interesting. It can be like ground hog day. Same itineraries over and over... look kids Big Ben! Muster drill first day. Safety drills constantly.
The crew food is NOT the same as passengers. That is why you see officers, activity directors, etc eating at the buffets during slow times. The quarters are obnoxiously small.
The only good thing is the crew bar drinks are practically free by our standards. The bad thing is they make so little that it is relative.
On top of all that there is a definite set of social classes on these ships... it is like a huge school. The shore ex guys are jocks. The performer girls are the hot girls. The casino guys are cynical bad boys. The kids club people are a little weird. And they all look down on the Philippinos that do the grunt work.
That is obviously a huge generalization. But it seemed to hold on most ships.
Finally, the pay is tiny because of the room and board angle. That is why so many of the worker bees come from poor countries.
Norwegian is excellent. The shows were very entertaining.
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For ensemble roles, applicants should be true triple threats. A dance background should include experience in ballet, jazz, partnering, and commercial. Female-identifying performers must be able to perform all dance moves in three-inch heels.
Kinda tells one where NOT to audition.
What is head voice and belt-only tracks? Why do they care how tall a singer is? Why on Princess (or is it celebrity) cruise line is the women’s starting height 5’3 while the men can be 5’1?
We love the old Frasier episode where he gets booked on a cruise ship and then finds out that all of the performers are has beens or worse. That included the sleazy Latin singer called The Barracuda.
Cori needs an editor, or a good class in writing. I learned that one early on.