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Speaker 1: How many years has it been since we were we

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Speaker 2: How many? How many?

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Speaker 1: Seven? Oh, my god, it seems like much longer. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: it takes a lot of work to be a godparent

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Speaker 1: and watching them venture into new waters I guess literally literally.

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Speaker 1: But now with a new ship, Aqua, it's sitting three

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Speaker 1: and of course that is Brian White, the vice president

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Speaker 1: of Entertainment Production for Norwegian Cruise Line. That is a lofty,

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Speaker 1: lofty position you have, that's me mean, yeah, it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're not just talking about Aqua, which is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of work. It's a lot of work,

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Speaker 2: but it's we make people happy. That's our job. You know,

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Speaker 2: people go on ships they expect good entertainment. We listen

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Speaker 2: to our guests, we give them great entertainment. There shows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we went on Bliss for the first time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what is this job? I mean, where are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what it takes is a long time of planning. Right,

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Speaker 2: for us about an eighteen month process. The big new

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Speaker 2: It's actually a seven year process right where we are

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Speaker 2: of these productions. Right. We have hundreds of cast members

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Speaker 2: to do when you're a kid. No, you mean, we

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Speaker 2: probably wouldn't apply to ships at that point. But have

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Speaker 2: you always been a show guy? I think you know.

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Speaker 2: I actually worked on ships if The first ship I

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Speaker 2: stage manager. Loved the company, love the industry. I've worked

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Speaker 2: I've been here three years, right in time for the

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Speaker 2: Norwegian Aqua. We've got Norwegian Luna coming next year. It's

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Speaker 1: You know what show is going to be on Luna already?

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Speaker 2: I know what shows?

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Speaker 2: Yes, aside from being a famous artist. Yes, what is

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Speaker 1: So of course Aqua Revolution of Celebration of Princes one

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Speaker 2: So we've got Elements the World Expanded, which is taking

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Speaker 2: we said, let's take the show that our guests love,

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Speaker 2: and let's just blow it up. Let's do the biggest

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Speaker 2: I'm really excited about is have you have you been

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Speaker 1: You know what I love about this conversation of Brian

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Speaker 1: lot of great food, doing some shots. Sorry, but seeing

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Speaker 1: this entertainment which you are beautifully showcasing it as you describe.

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Speaker 1: And I heard that you've invited us to come aboard today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, wait are we even are we really invited?

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Speaker 2: Cool? Yeah, it'll be great. What are you going to eat?

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Speaker 2: So my favorite restaurant on board is Indulged Food Hall.

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Speaker 2: Promise me there's meat on Oh there is so much

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a meatful ship. What's thee of this ship? Hasuki? Yes,

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Speaker 2: and we've it's and we've we've added more tables than

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Speaker 1: Aqua is really just breaking all the rules. And that's

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Speaker 2: They're all different. Well, and this one's bigger, right, So

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Speaker 1: It may I just say and I'm I'm I love

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Speaker 1: I want you to go to mcl dot com and

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Speaker 1: look at what's waiting for you, because they really do

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Speaker 1: Come on a cruise version. Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Are you allowed back on the ships after your last cruise?

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Speaker 1: The incident, Let's not talk about that.

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Speaker 2: It's okay.

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Speaker 1: The troubles trouble.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there were troubles with truffles.

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Speaker 1: So aqua Revolution Celebration of Prince is, of course where

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Speaker 1: we want to start. If if if they could just

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Speaker 1: get the performers on stage just for just a show

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Speaker 1: for us privately today, that would be nice.

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Speaker 2: I'll work on it.

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Speaker 1: You can you please NCL dot com go ahead, think

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Speaker 1: about where you're gonna go, and uh, of course Aqua

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Speaker 1: is a way to go. When when is the christening?

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Speaker 2: We are christening the ship this coming Sunday. So we

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Speaker 2: sailing down to Miami. We're going to do two cruises

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Speaker 2: we will be christening the ship in Miami. It really

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Speaker 2: it's a waste of a great bottle of champagne. I mean,

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Speaker 2: can you let me drink that? Let's not waste the

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Speaker 1: So Prince had a huge catalog of music, I mean

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Speaker 1: dozens of songs that were all hits. So you had

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Speaker 1: to whiel it down, whittle it down to what you

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Speaker 1: thought were the biggest Prince hits. Yeah, and what is

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Speaker 1: the one in your opinion, Brian, that is the one

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Speaker 1: that crystallizes everything. So yeah, we had to whittle it

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Speaker 1: down to about sixteen songs. One of the things that's

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Speaker 1: really cool about the show is there's about a thirty

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Speaker 1: minute pre show party, so we're able to feature some

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Speaker 1: then after the second show we actually go into a

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Speaker 1: nightclub experience of print songs. So we're able to take

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that we couldn't get into the main

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Speaker 1: show and we're still able to do it. I think

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Speaker 1: in the show, I have to pick two. Let's Work,

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Speaker 1: which is a song that not a lot of people know.

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Speaker 1: It is probably the most fun number in the show.

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Speaker 1: The choreography, which was done by Patti Wilcox, who's a

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Speaker 1: longtime creator choreographer. It's just some of the best choreography

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Speaker 1: and best dance you've seen. But I think the number

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Speaker 1: that really ignites the show and takes us off and

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Speaker 1: really really really sells Prince is nineteen ninety nine. Oh Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play it.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna play it. Yeah, you can do that. I

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Speaker 2: have the power, Mike, I know can do anything. Scary

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Speaker 2: playing And Brian, thank you for coming in.

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Speaker 1: Brian White from Norwegian Cruise Line, the vice president of

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Speaker 1: Entertainment production. That's a fun job.

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Speaker 2: That's a fun job. Thank you.

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