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Sunday, April 22 2007

Today was a sea day, which means we have to work extra-hard to keep the passengers from being bored. On most of those days the entertainment tends to have a busier schedule, and today was no exception. We started at 11:00 with the "Port Shopping" presentation in the theatre where a staff member talks about all the shopping details in the port cities, most especially related to diamonds. It's an easy "show" if you want to call it that. We start with a video presentation and then it's just one person with a headset mic. Basically Matt and I just brought our laptops and goofed around in the control room while the presentation, all two hours of it, went on. It's got some appeal though, in a 700 seat theatre people were standing on the sides and the back. We tried counting how many times in the presentation she said "diamond". We lost count.

Later that day they had tech runs for Undercover, one of their production shows that was scheduled for that night. Thank God they had a new dancer in the cast which meant a full run through. Otherwise, I would have been dropped into the show after only having seen it twice and run it once. With this show, there's 24 music tracks, four singers, and a lot of mute cues which we have to follow ourselves. Matt was there to back me up for the first show but really didn't need to do much, which I was very happy about. The singers wanted some adjustments to their stage mix after the show but all in all it was a good first show. Then, for the second show at 10:15, things went even better. Now I had the show fresh in my mind and the singers dialed in. For that run, Matt didn't even stay in the booth and basically everyone was happy--singers, tech, and of course, audience. I walked away from that show pretty stoked.

Tomorrow is the hypnotist, a really easy show. And after that, it's the ceremonial "passing of the pager", where Matt officially hands off the pager to me. At that point, I'm basically the head audio guy for the entire ship. Look for that report and pictures of the ceremony tomorrow.