April 8, 2025 • 12 mins
It's hard being a godparent to ships... but not for us! Bryan White, our friend from NCL joins us to talk about the newest ship from Norwegian Cruise Lines, the Aqua, and what we can expect! Plus, we're having a lunch date with Aqua today!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many years has it been since we were we
were given the honor to be the godparents of Bliss,
Norwegian Cruise Line Bliss.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How many? How many?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Seven? Oh, my god, it seems like much longer. I mean, look,
it takes a lot of work to be a godparent
of a ship. And ever since then we've had this incredible,
incredible relationship with Norwegian Cruise Line and watching them grow
and watching them venture into new waters I guess literally literally.
But now with a new ship, Aqua, it's sitting three
(00:34):
blocks away from here. We're gonna go have lunch over
there and check it out. But we had to bring
on one of the most important people involved with Aqua,
and of course that is Brian White, the vice president
of Entertainment Production for Norwegian Cruise Line. That is a lofty,
lofty position you have, that's me mean, yeah, it is.
I mean we're not just talking about Aqua, which is
(00:55):
of course the new Crown jewel, but you're the guy
that is a charge of figuring out the shows for
all these ships.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of work. It's a lot of work,
but it's we make people happy. That's our job. You know,
people go on ships they expect good entertainment. We listen
to our guests, we give them great entertainment. There shows.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, I mean we went on Bliss for the first time.
I didn't want to do anything, but let's watch these shows.
And I was thinking, what does it take to be
the person who has to conceptualize and strategize? It's you,
I mean, what is this job? I mean, where are
you from? And how do you get that job? Because
(01:32):
this seems like a cool thing you're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, so what it takes is a long time of planning. Right,
people think, oh, we have an idea on a Friday,
the show shows up on a Monday. Right. It's actually
for us about an eighteen month process. The big new
show on the Aqua Revolution, which is our tribute to Prince,
It's actually a seven year process right where we are
really in the weeds with the estate, with Universal Music,
(01:56):
with you know, all of these different players that are
involved conceptual saying. We have our one hundred thousand square
foot rehearsal studio in Florida. We're actually physically creating all
of these productions. Right. We have hundreds of cast members
who are coming in. We have costume shop that were
building all the costumes fun. It is something you want
to do when you're a kid. No, you mean, we
probably wouldn't apply to ships at that point. But have
(02:19):
you always been a show guy? I think you know.
I started I was a sort of singer actor dancer,
and then I started working professionally as a singer actor
dancer and said I'm not a singer actor dancer and
started working in stage management here in New York and
sort of worked my way up through stage management, production management, producing.
I actually worked on ships if The first ship I
(02:41):
ever worked on was a Norwegian ship. I was on
the Norwegian Epic, which at the time was the I
think third largest ship in the world as a production
stage manager. Loved the company, love the industry. I've worked
throughout the industry in various entertainment roles, leadership roles, and
came back to n CL in twenty twenty two, so
(03:02):
I've been here three years, right in time for the
launch of the brand new Prima class ships. And now
we have rolled out the first Prima Plus class ship,
Norwegian Aqua. We've got Norwegian Luna coming next year. It's
the future is bright. Cruising is cruising is back, baby, do.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know what show is going to be on Luna already?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know what shows?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Tell us?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh you're hilarious, Oh so cute?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay, welcome, that was just awful.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Give that an answer.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay, well well.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Here's hey, here's what I'll say. So if you look
at what we're doing on Norwegian Aqua, you look at
at Prince, you look at big global artists that we're
paying tribute to their music and celebrating their artistry. Do
they have to be dead? They do not have to
be dead? What they gotta be big? What about close
to dead?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Because I'm taking share would be fabulous.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
She's gonna do five more comeback to us. Did you
hear her on the SNL the Please?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I love her. She's amazing. I love share.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She says.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
She's been doing her going out of business sale for
many years now. She's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yes, aside from being a famous artist. Yes, what is
the criteria that you guys look at to pick a
show for everybody? There's three things. Music that people recognize,
Visual spectacle. We gotta have shows that are going to
have big visual spectacle, easy to follow narrative. So one
of the things that's great about Prince is we're not
doing this isn't like an impersonation show. This isn't like
(04:30):
a narrative. Prince was born here and then we went here,
and then we went No, we're taking sections of music right.
One section of the show is relationships. We're taking all
of these great songs that Prince did about relationships and
doing that as a section of the show. So the
narrative is really easy to follow. You don't really have
to think. You go in and you're gonna have great
music on this ship. You're gonna be able to sit
(04:51):
and watch the show. We actually let you stand and
watch the show. We've actually because the theater is no
you get, you can get up front, you get, you
can get close, have a true concert experience.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So of course Aqua Revolution of Celebration of Princes one
just one show, Justice going on. What else you got
on Aqua?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So we've got Elements the World Expanded, which is taking
one of our longest running, most popular shows and blowing
it up. The theater on board the Aqua is this
amazing immersive theater with video. We have these really cool
chandeliers that tell us scope in and out. And so
we said, let's take the show that our guests love,
and let's just blow it up. Let's do the biggest
(05:32):
possible version of it possible. One of the other shows
I'm really excited about is have you have you been
to Sid Norman's Poor House on any of our ships?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No, you have not.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I've heard about it. I'm getting a lot of nodding
around all that. Yeah, so sid Norman's poor House. It's
this authentic kind of pub venue that we intentionally designed
to be small and intimate.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh waity, I have yeah, okay, so yeah, yeah, back
to you.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So a little bit of a victim of our own success, right,
This venue was meant to be intimate. It's so popular
or no one can get in. And for years guests
have been saying, can you please take Rumors, which is
this great front to back cover of the Fleetwood Mac
album that we do as a show, Can you please
put it in the theater? Can you please put it
in the theater? And we said, no, our artistry, we cannot.
(06:14):
We must protect our artistry. And this year we said, fine,
let's put it in the theater, Let's get the best
designers to do it, let's really blow it out. And
I have to tell you. You know, in the past few
inaugural cruises we've done a few weeks, it's one of
the most popular things, the what is phenomenal concert experience?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know what I love about this conversation of Brian
is here we are in New York City, just several
blocks away from arguably the most entertaining blocks of available
as far as theater and and then you know, just
four blocks that way is Awkwat, which is going to
just travel the world. People will be celebrating life events
(06:52):
on that ship. And while they're doing it, eating a
lot of great food, doing some shots. Sorry, but seeing
this entertainment which you are beautifully showcasing it as you describe.
I just want to say thank you for coming in.
And I heard that you've invited us to come aboard today.
Is this true?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I've heard that as well.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Okay, wait are we even are we really invited?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Do we just invite ourselves? We just invited ourselves?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Cool? Yeah, it'll be great. What are you going to eat?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm gonna eat everything.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Do you know where you're gonna eat?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No, okay, let me Can I give you food recommend Yeah? Yeah,
So my favorite restaurant on board is Indulged Food Hall.
Have you been to Indulged Food Hall before?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yes, If you go to Indulged Food Hall, my favorite
item on the menu is it's a dinner item, unfortunately,
so you won't get to eat it. It's the chicken
tiki masala. My new That was my old favorite. My
new favorite is now our lemon lentil soup at our
new plant based restaurant. I I eat every time I
walk past Indulge. I like inhale a va of the
(07:50):
stuff you can get at for lunch today. Okay, I'll
see you there. Wait, do we have a choice of
where we eat? Like?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Can we all eat different?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Differ That's what I'm saying, so we.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Can get a little this little bit bad party.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I love a good plant based restaurant.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's good and it's good for you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I know I need meat.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Promise me there's meat on Oh there is so much
meat ship, the meat, the meat. I was walking down
the hall last night and I was saying, there's a
meat everywhere on this ship.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Meat.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I mean, it's a meatful ship. What's thee of this ship? Hasuki? Yes,
and we've it's and we've we've added more tables than
any of our other Yeah, so it's huge.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Aqua is really just breaking all the rules. And that's
what we love about how every time a new ship
comes out with Norwegian, it's it's even though they're in
the same line of ships.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They're all different. Well, and this one's bigger, right, So
we had Prima and Viva, which were sister ships. Norwegian
Aqua and her sister ship are actually ten percent larger,
feels like fifty percent larger, huge, huge change. The space
is so much more open, the venues are laid out
so much better. So if anyone's crew on those ships,
you're gonna come on board and say, Wow, this seems
so much bigger.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It may I just say and I'm I'm I love
telling the story. I never ever wanted to go on
a cruise ever. I never I wanted, didn't want to
do it, and they said, you really need to understand
what it's like to go on a cruise. Okay, Norwegian,
this is where we go. And then I became addicted
to it. I love it now and so I'm I'm
telling you right now, if you had no desire to
go on a cruise, I want you to change that philosophy.
(09:26):
I want you to go to mcl dot com and
look at what's waiting for you, because they really do
a great job. It will totally change the way you
you view cruising. I love it now and I thought
I never would.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's and there's there's there's more, there's there's
there's more to offer, there's more to see. We're constantly
listening to guests, and guests give us feedback. They say
we want this, we go away. We have a test
kitchen in Miami. The culinary team comes up with it.
I have a studio in Tampa. You want this type
of entertainment, We come up with it. We're here to
give our guests.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Come on a cruise version. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Are you allowed back on the ships after your last cruise?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
The incident, Let's not talk about that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The troubles trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Maybe there were troubles with truffles.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So aqua Revolution Celebration of Prince is, of course where
we want to start. If if if they could just
get the performers on stage just for just a show
for us privately today, that would be nice.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'll work on it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You can you please NCL dot com go ahead, think
about where you're gonna go, and uh, of course Aqua
is a way to go. When when is the christening?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We are christening the ship this coming Sunday. So we
are here in New York. We leave tomorrow. We'll be
sailing down to Miami. We're going to do two cruises
for all of our employees and their families are gonna
be able to come on board, and then this coming Sunday,
we will be christening the ship in Miami. It really
it's a waste of a great bottle of champagne. I mean,
can you let me drink that? Let's not waste the
(10:51):
ball underneath.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So Prince had a huge catalog of music, I mean
dozens of songs that were all hits. So you had
to whiel it down, whittle it down to what you
thought were the biggest Prince hits. Yeah, and what is
the one in your opinion, Brian, that is the one
that crystallizes everything. So yeah, we had to whittle it
down to about sixteen songs. One of the things that's
(11:12):
really cool about the show is there's about a thirty
minute pre show party, so we're able to feature some
songs that don't quite make it into the show, and
then after the second show we actually go into a
nightclub experience of print songs. So we're able to take
all the stuff that we couldn't get into the main
show and we're still able to do it. I think
in the show, I have to pick two. Let's Work,
(11:32):
which is a song that not a lot of people know.
It is probably the most fun number in the show.
The choreography, which was done by Patti Wilcox, who's a
longtime creator choreographer. It's just some of the best choreography
and best dance you've seen. But I think the number
that really ignites the show and takes us off and
really really really sells Prince is nineteen ninety nine. Oh Yeah, Okay,
(11:56):
I'm gonna play it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You're gonna play it. Yeah, you can do that. I
have the power, Mike, I know can do anything. Scary
playing And Brian, thank you for coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Brian White from Norwegian Cruise Line, the vice president of
Entertainment production. That's a fun job.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's a fun job. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Wait awkwa, we're gonna be having lunch in there a
little bit today. Mcl dot com book a trip right now,
go
How many years has it been since we were we
were given the honor to be the godparents of Bliss,
Norwegian Cruise Line Bliss.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
How many? How many?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Seven? Oh, my god, it seems like much longer. I mean, look,
it takes a lot of work to be a godparent
of a ship. And ever since then we've had this incredible,
incredible relationship with Norwegian Cruise Line and watching them grow
and watching them venture into new waters I guess literally literally.
But now with a new ship, Aqua, it's sitting three
(00:34):
blocks away from here. We're gonna go have lunch over
there and check it out. But we had to bring
on one of the most important people involved with Aqua,
and of course that is Brian White, the vice president
of Entertainment Production for Norwegian Cruise Line. That is a lofty,
lofty position you have, that's me mean, yeah, it is.
I mean we're not just talking about Aqua, which is
(00:55):
of course the new Crown jewel, but you're the guy
that is a charge of figuring out the shows for
all these ships.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of work. It's a lot of work,
but it's we make people happy. That's our job. You know,
people go on ships they expect good entertainment. We listen
to our guests, we give them great entertainment. There shows.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, I mean we went on Bliss for the first time.
I didn't want to do anything, but let's watch these shows.
And I was thinking, what does it take to be
the person who has to conceptualize and strategize? It's you,
I mean, what is this job? I mean, where are
you from? And how do you get that job? Because
(01:32):
this seems like a cool thing you're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, so what it takes is a long time of planning. Right,
people think, oh, we have an idea on a Friday,
the show shows up on a Monday. Right. It's actually
for us about an eighteen month process. The big new
show on the Aqua Revolution, which is our tribute to Prince,
It's actually a seven year process right where we are
really in the weeds with the estate, with Universal Music,
(01:56):
with you know, all of these different players that are
involved conceptual saying. We have our one hundred thousand square
foot rehearsal studio in Florida. We're actually physically creating all
of these productions. Right. We have hundreds of cast members
who are coming in. We have costume shop that were
building all the costumes fun. It is something you want
to do when you're a kid. No, you mean, we
probably wouldn't apply to ships at that point. But have
(02:19):
you always been a show guy? I think you know.
I started I was a sort of singer actor dancer,
and then I started working professionally as a singer actor
dancer and said I'm not a singer actor dancer and
started working in stage management here in New York and
sort of worked my way up through stage management, production management, producing.
I actually worked on ships if The first ship I
(02:41):
ever worked on was a Norwegian ship. I was on
the Norwegian Epic, which at the time was the I
think third largest ship in the world as a production
stage manager. Loved the company, love the industry. I've worked
throughout the industry in various entertainment roles, leadership roles, and
came back to n CL in twenty twenty two, so
(03:02):
I've been here three years, right in time for the
launch of the brand new Prima class ships. And now
we have rolled out the first Prima Plus class ship,
Norwegian Aqua. We've got Norwegian Luna coming next year. It's
the future is bright. Cruising is cruising is back, baby, do.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know what show is going to be on Luna already?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know what shows?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Tell us?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh you're hilarious, Oh so cute?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay, welcome, that was just awful.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Give that an answer.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay, well well.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Here's hey, here's what I'll say. So if you look
at what we're doing on Norwegian Aqua, you look at
at Prince, you look at big global artists that we're
paying tribute to their music and celebrating their artistry. Do
they have to be dead? They do not have to
be dead? What they gotta be big? What about close
to dead?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Because I'm taking share would be fabulous.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
She's gonna do five more comeback to us. Did you
hear her on the SNL the Please?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I love her. She's amazing. I love share.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
She says.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
She's been doing her going out of business sale for
many years now. She's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yes, aside from being a famous artist. Yes, what is
the criteria that you guys look at to pick a
show for everybody? There's three things. Music that people recognize,
Visual spectacle. We gotta have shows that are going to
have big visual spectacle, easy to follow narrative. So one
of the things that's great about Prince is we're not
doing this isn't like an impersonation show. This isn't like
(04:30):
a narrative. Prince was born here and then we went here,
and then we went No, we're taking sections of music right.
One section of the show is relationships. We're taking all
of these great songs that Prince did about relationships and
doing that as a section of the show. So the
narrative is really easy to follow. You don't really have
to think. You go in and you're gonna have great
music on this ship. You're gonna be able to sit
(04:51):
and watch the show. We actually let you stand and
watch the show. We've actually because the theater is no
you get, you can get up front, you get, you
can get close, have a true concert experience.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So of course Aqua Revolution of Celebration of Princes one
just one show, Justice going on. What else you got
on Aqua?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So we've got Elements the World Expanded, which is taking
one of our longest running, most popular shows and blowing
it up. The theater on board the Aqua is this
amazing immersive theater with video. We have these really cool
chandeliers that tell us scope in and out. And so
we said, let's take the show that our guests love,
and let's just blow it up. Let's do the biggest
(05:32):
possible version of it possible. One of the other shows
I'm really excited about is have you have you been
to Sid Norman's Poor House on any of our ships?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No, you have not.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I've heard about it. I'm getting a lot of nodding
around all that. Yeah, so sid Norman's poor House. It's
this authentic kind of pub venue that we intentionally designed
to be small and intimate.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh waity, I have yeah, okay, so yeah, yeah, back
to you.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So a little bit of a victim of our own success, right,
This venue was meant to be intimate. It's so popular
or no one can get in. And for years guests
have been saying, can you please take Rumors, which is
this great front to back cover of the Fleetwood Mac
album that we do as a show, Can you please
put it in the theater? Can you please put it
in the theater? And we said, no, our artistry, we cannot.
(06:14):
We must protect our artistry. And this year we said, fine,
let's put it in the theater, Let's get the best
designers to do it, let's really blow it out. And
I have to tell you. You know, in the past few
inaugural cruises we've done a few weeks, it's one of
the most popular things, the what is phenomenal concert experience?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know what I love about this conversation of Brian
is here we are in New York City, just several
blocks away from arguably the most entertaining blocks of available
as far as theater and and then you know, just
four blocks that way is Awkwat, which is going to
just travel the world. People will be celebrating life events
(06:52):
on that ship. And while they're doing it, eating a
lot of great food, doing some shots. Sorry, but seeing
this entertainment which you are beautifully showcasing it as you describe.
I just want to say thank you for coming in.
And I heard that you've invited us to come aboard today.
Is this true?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I've heard that as well.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Okay, wait are we even are we really invited?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Do we just invite ourselves? We just invited ourselves?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Cool? Yeah, it'll be great. What are you going to eat?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I'm gonna eat everything.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Do you know where you're gonna eat?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No, okay, let me Can I give you food recommend Yeah? Yeah,
So my favorite restaurant on board is Indulged Food Hall.
Have you been to Indulged Food Hall before?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yes, If you go to Indulged Food Hall, my favorite
item on the menu is it's a dinner item, unfortunately,
so you won't get to eat it. It's the chicken
tiki masala. My new That was my old favorite. My
new favorite is now our lemon lentil soup at our
new plant based restaurant. I I eat every time I
walk past Indulge. I like inhale a va of the
(07:50):
stuff you can get at for lunch today. Okay, I'll
see you there. Wait, do we have a choice of
where we eat? Like?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Can we all eat different?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Differ That's what I'm saying, so we.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Can get a little this little bit bad party.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I love a good plant based restaurant.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's good and it's good for you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I know I need meat.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Promise me there's meat on Oh there is so much
meat ship, the meat, the meat. I was walking down
the hall last night and I was saying, there's a
meat everywhere on this ship.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Meat.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I mean, it's a meatful ship. What's thee of this ship? Hasuki? Yes,
and we've it's and we've we've added more tables than
any of our other Yeah, so it's huge.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Aqua is really just breaking all the rules. And that's
what we love about how every time a new ship
comes out with Norwegian, it's it's even though they're in
the same line of ships.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They're all different. Well, and this one's bigger, right, So
we had Prima and Viva, which were sister ships. Norwegian
Aqua and her sister ship are actually ten percent larger,
feels like fifty percent larger, huge, huge change. The space
is so much more open, the venues are laid out
so much better. So if anyone's crew on those ships,
you're gonna come on board and say, Wow, this seems
so much bigger.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It may I just say and I'm I'm I love
telling the story. I never ever wanted to go on
a cruise ever. I never I wanted, didn't want to
do it, and they said, you really need to understand
what it's like to go on a cruise. Okay, Norwegian,
this is where we go. And then I became addicted
to it. I love it now and so I'm I'm
telling you right now, if you had no desire to
go on a cruise, I want you to change that philosophy.
(09:26):
I want you to go to mcl dot com and
look at what's waiting for you, because they really do
a great job. It will totally change the way you
you view cruising. I love it now and I thought
I never would.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's and there's there's there's more, there's there's
there's more to offer, there's more to see. We're constantly
listening to guests, and guests give us feedback. They say
we want this, we go away. We have a test
kitchen in Miami. The culinary team comes up with it.
I have a studio in Tampa. You want this type
of entertainment, We come up with it. We're here to
give our guests.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Come on a cruise version. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Are you allowed back on the ships after your last cruise?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
The incident, Let's not talk about that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The troubles trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Maybe there were troubles with truffles.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
So aqua Revolution Celebration of Prince is, of course where
we want to start. If if if they could just
get the performers on stage just for just a show
for us privately today, that would be nice.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'll work on it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You can you please NCL dot com go ahead, think
about where you're gonna go, and uh, of course Aqua
is a way to go. When when is the christening?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We are christening the ship this coming Sunday. So we
are here in New York. We leave tomorrow. We'll be
sailing down to Miami. We're going to do two cruises
for all of our employees and their families are gonna
be able to come on board, and then this coming Sunday,
we will be christening the ship in Miami. It really
it's a waste of a great bottle of champagne. I mean,
can you let me drink that? Let's not waste the
(10:51):
ball underneath.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So Prince had a huge catalog of music, I mean
dozens of songs that were all hits. So you had
to whiel it down, whittle it down to what you
thought were the biggest Prince hits. Yeah, and what is
the one in your opinion, Brian, that is the one
that crystallizes everything. So yeah, we had to whittle it
down to about sixteen songs. One of the things that's
(11:12):
really cool about the show is there's about a thirty
minute pre show party, so we're able to feature some
songs that don't quite make it into the show, and
then after the second show we actually go into a
nightclub experience of print songs. So we're able to take
all the stuff that we couldn't get into the main
show and we're still able to do it. I think
in the show, I have to pick two. Let's Work,
(11:32):
which is a song that not a lot of people know.
It is probably the most fun number in the show.
The choreography, which was done by Patti Wilcox, who's a
longtime creator choreographer. It's just some of the best choreography
and best dance you've seen. But I think the number
that really ignites the show and takes us off and
really really really sells Prince is nineteen ninety nine. Oh Yeah, Okay,
(11:56):
I'm gonna play it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You're gonna play it. Yeah, you can do that. I
have the power, Mike, I know can do anything. Scary
playing And Brian, thank you for coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Brian White from Norwegian Cruise Line, the vice president of
Entertainment production. That's a fun job.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That's a fun job. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Wait awkwa, we're gonna be having lunch in there a
little bit today. Mcl dot com book a trip right now,
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