Day 8

Well lets see it is now day 8 of a 12 day cruise, and this is the most interesting cruise I think I have ever worked on.

Ok first lets list everything, then I will go back and explain some things.
Drummer got chicken pox
Comic played CD play on
Punk rock drummer played the juggler
Brenda Cockrane show postponed
Dance band drummer played Brenda's show
New drummer arrived and played Tango show
Female singer got fired
Rigger got fired.

What next????? It's only day 8.


So the Drummer, as I mentioned in a previous post, he got chicken pox. So we couldn't do Brenda Cockrane's show, so we put the Comic on instead. The next night we had the Juggler go on a night early, and we got a new drummer from Bulgaria. He was a real punk rocker, long hair and all. Well he couldn't read music, but was a good drummer, so we had him play the Juggler. But now because everyone onboard new we were down a drummer we played a joke, by having the comic play the drums for the start of the show, very funny.

So we get Brenda to stay on a couple of days extra, and we have the drummer from the Dance Band play her show.

The next day we have Gary Lovinim, a violin player. The same drummer did his show, and now the punk drummer has gone home to tell all his friends what cruise ships are like. I bet that would be an interesting conversation to hear.

Well last night our Secondary Girl singer got a bit drunk, and did some things that I won't go into, but the long story short is that she got fired this morning.

This past cruise our Rigger has also had family sailing with him. I won't go into any details but the short story is that he is now fired as well.

Now we get to today, Our new fill in Drummer arrived. We were still able to perform the show without the singer, and the rigger, but with the PM now having to run the rigging computer. It leaves us with only 3 people backstage, we normally have 4 and the PM has been filling in where needed. Luckily this show can be done this way. We shall have to see how our other shows work out till we get back to normal.

And now the Crew Bar is out of Beer!

Chicken Pox

First of all calm down, it isn't me. Last night our drummer from the theatre came down with the chicken pox. Now that is a first. Now we are scrambling to get a drummer as ours is confined for a week, and we have to change shows left right and center.

The End of Short cruises

Well I think the end is in site for these short cruises. Goodbye Copenhagen, see you on a longer cruise. Our days visiting the port of Copenhagen every other day it seemed like are over. I think all of the crew are broke from all of the overnights. We are now heading toward Germany. I am a bit exited just because it isn't that often I get to go to a new country these days. We will do one 4 day cruise from Germany up to Oslo, then two cruises from Germany to Amsterdam, then we will finally start our normal season of 12 day cruises.

Copenhagen is a great place to visit, once or twice, but as a tourist is is a very expensive place. The locals love hot dogs, and ice cream. We went to Tivoli Gardens, it is a small amusement park. I heard it is one of the oldest in the world. I got a few good photos.