{"id":3347,"date":"2014-09-06T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T16:30:51","slug":"another-openin-another-show-boston-usa-08302014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"Another Openin\u2019 Another\u2026.Show? \u2013 Boston, USA \u2013 [08\/30\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"a5bd27c601c0c6ef71dfe657148c8f6c\"<\/a>Yesterday morning the entertainment department went through a massive change-over, among those who left us for the season were the (as yet not replaced) Party Band guitarist, the Dance Band leader, and\u2026the entire production cast\u2026<\/p>\n

Which means this week? Welcome to Cast Changeover.<\/p>\n

Otherwise known as the entertainment two-weeks-from-hell. The new cast comes on knowing the shows cold (they rehearse in LA for several months before joining a ship), but they all have to be reblocked for the ship\u2019s stage, and there\u2019s always costuming repairs and adjustments that need to be done, plus every single show has to be rehearsed, prepped and polished by the Corporate Entertainment team that comes on board with the new cast and stays for a week\u2026at least. The stage team is run off their feet with all the extra rehearsals and the show room is always <\/em>booked up. It gets a wee bit crazy. Back in the day when I used to be friends with a ship-board stage manager, I would ferry coffee back and forth from caf\u00e9 next to where I work to the theatre. At one point I could man-handle a fire screen door way<\/em> heavier than me whilst still carrying five coffees\u2026it was an art.<\/p>\n

The offshoot of this for us on this ship particularly, is that the cast wasn\u2019t able to participate in the opening night show. Something to do with the costumes not being ready. Now, the opening night bumper show is short to begin with, it only runs 35 minutes (\u201cfast, fun and flirty!\u201d), you take out the three or four major cast numbers from a show that short? You\u2019re left with about\u2026a 15 or 20 minute show! Rehearsal was hilarious, as it was ultimately a stumble of a stumble through<\/p>\n

Whaddya mean I\u2019m doing this whole number myself? GAH! Can\u2019t remember the words! <\/em><\/p>\n

Where do I go now?<\/em><\/p>\n

Did anyone tell you guys when to exit so you don\u2019t get stepped on?<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a bit crazy. We did, thankfully, manage to stretch it out to 30 minutes, so we weren\u2019t so<\/em> ashamed for dragging everyone into the show lounge for such a truncated performance! And as always the performers on board are amazing and can pretty much carry off anything we throw at them.<\/p>\n

The other issue is that that guitar player still hasn\u2019t arrived \u2013 and we\u2019re not 100% sure when he\/she is<\/em> arriving. With any other instrument you can somewhat play around it, I mean, if you get stuck without keys you\u2019re going to have a lot of trouble but it can be done, if you get stuck without drums the bassist can take up some slack with regards to the rhythm, but without guitar? Try doing a 50s\/60s rock n\u2019roll set, or<\/em> a Motown night, without guitar! So not going to go over too well. So the \u2018Cats have a very light schedule this week simply since they\u2019re not really able<\/em> to do their normal gig (schedule tomorrow reads \u201chave a nice day<\/em>\u201d lucky dogs!!)\u2026upside for me? More time in port with my big brother! woot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning the entertainment department went through a massive change-over, among those who left us for the season were the (as yet not replaced) Party Band guitarist, the Dance Band leader, and\u2026the entire production cast\u2026 Which means this week? Welcome … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-coast-adventures-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-RZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}