This is the first article in a series, about working as a comedy/magician on a cruise ship. I have worked on 32 cruise ship with 6 major cruise lines during the past 7 years. The cruise industry is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world. Ten to twenty new luxury liners are being built every year, and with that growth there has been an equally impressive boom in the number of available jobs.
I will try to explain to you what it is to work and live on a cruise ship as a guest entertainer.
Before you even consider being a magician on a cruise ship, you need to ask yourself some questions.
Can I:
1.... work for a « captive » middle class American audience who has spent half of it's spare time watching television and for most of them have never even set foot in a theater or watched a live show.
2... stand being evaluateed by these same middle class Americans (because they are going to be asked to fill out a comment card, at the end of the cruise)
3... tolerate being criticized by a « cruise director » who in 90% of the cases as never been near a real stage, except on a cruise ship, and now think that he is in show business.
4... work with a non motivated stage crew
5... live in a cabin that is the size of a « walk-in closet »
6... eat at the buffet every day
7... respect the dress code
8... meet and mingle with the people that have seen the show
9... travel all over the world for several hours, sometimes days, to catch a ship. Being exhausted and then find out that you have to performed 2 shows with no rehearsal in 3 hours.
10... wait...
11... work on a moving stage (when the sea is rough)
If you've answer no to any of these questions than a cruise ship is not the business for you.
All these questions and more are going to be discussed in upcoming articles
Negotiate with a « captive » audience
Advantages & disadvantages (Stage, unmotivated stage crew, etc.)
Meeting with your audience the day after (and the rest of the cruise)
Day to day life on a cruise ship.
How to apply and what you need.
etc.
Jean Boucher is a Comedy magician for corporate events
and cruise ship. Jean Boucher as worked on more then 32
different cruise ship and still counting.
Web site:http://www.magicien.biz
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