
Entertainment Department
Job Descriptions
Guest Entertainers
A complete and strong 40-50 minutes self-contained showcatering to a wide diversity of ages required.
Lounge Performers, Piano Players
Entertain in certain locations on board: piano bar, night club etc. providing their own music and materials. Solid experience and ability to play a wide diversity of musical styles required. Fluent English Language skills mandatory.
Cruise Director
The cruise director is in charge of all on-board entertainment, creation, coordination and implementation of all the daily activities. Sometimes necessary to act master of ceremonies at social activities and evening shows. The successful candidates should have professional entertainment background of 2 to 5 years on board ships. Prerequisite: public speaking, delegate responsibilities and strong organizational abilities. Fluent English Language skills required.
Dancers
Perform an evening entertainment block, during the daytime, it will be required to do the ship's representation duties, and accompany clients on shore excursions, perform entertainment in conjunction with a band, assist the cruise staff in entertaining passengers. Required reasonable experience of performing on stage, must pass an audition and have dance background and ability, friendly personality to customers and smiling is mandatory. The dances performed during the show should be observed as per the type of the passengers (such as nationality and age) under the instructions of the choreographer and the master, to perform different blocks of dances complied with the thematic evenings and more particularly with the master’s evenings. Each dancer has to observe the rehearsal time and whatever might be instructed by the choreographer and to develop their professional skills. Each dancer has to provide their own costumes.
Musicians
Show band - extensive professional experience required, excellent sight reading.
Lounge groups (2 to 6 piece bands) - experience required.
Piano Player
Prior to effecting actual participation in the shows onboard the ship the incumbent shall present an extensive and adequate repertoire as well as professional materials. Provide the services and perform the shows as per the requirements of the company shipowner / ship’s cruise director and in accordance with the play list / repertoire as initially approved by the latter. Strictly observe and perform the so called “cruise staff duties” of the company and the requirements of the cruise director to perform wherever designated – lobby, restaurant, at the library, karaoke, gambling, embarkation, participations in thematic evenings, master festives or any other as might be requested. The incumbent shall have extensive and sufficient experience in the position to be occupied onboard the ship and shall perform the duties at a satisfactory level of service quality.
Bands, Duos and Trios
The auditions are not to establish the musician's sight reading and technical playing abilities; the emphasis is on performance, personality and displaying a diverse musical repertoire, as such this audition should be more like watching the group in a live performance. We don't want to give a list of songs to perform, we would rather suggest the types and styles of music, but allow the personality of the individual band to come through on the DVD. Due to the varied requirements of each individual cruise line, the age, look, sound and material of the band will somewhat dictate where they will be most successful. However, there are certain basic requirements for most of the cruise lines. The Song titles are just suggestions; the band should choose songs in this style from their existing repertoire. Vocal and instrumental performances are required; most bands tend to use instrumentals for strict tempo dancing and vocals for the other styles, it is also possible to combine songs to display two genres of music i.e. Summertime could be used as a ballad and a jazz standard.
Bands, Duos and Trios -
These auditions are not to establish the musician's sight reading and technical playing abilities; the emphasis is on performance, personality and displaying a diverse musical repertoire, as such this audition should be more like watching the group in a live performance. As we discussed I don't want to give a list of songs to perform, I would rather suggest the types and styles of music, but allow the personality of the individual band to come through on the DVD. Due to the varied requirements of each individual cruise line, the age, look, sound and material of the band will somewhat dictate where they will be most successful. However, there are certain basic requirements for most of the cruise lines. The Song titles are just suggestions; the band should choose songs in this style from their existing repertoire. Vocal and instrumental performances are required; most bands tend to use instrumentals for strict tempo dancing and vocals for the other styles, it is also possible to combine songs to display two genres of music i.e. Summertime could be used as a ballad and a jazz standard.
Bands -
Again, bands need to be versatile, but are normally expected to be more "high-energy" as such they will focus on the Country, Pop and Rock styles. They should be capable of playing Jazz standards, Background and Music for Dancing, but this should be addressed in the first 10 to 15 minutes of the DVD. Again, it's important that the personality of the band shows through, the lines are looking for lively interactive bands that have a good rapport with the audiences.
The 30 - 45 minute DVD of live performance should include the styles detailed below. It is best if the groups are capable of performing all styles, but should concentrate on the areas which best suit their style. Here are the styles - again the Song list is a guide to the type of material, but we want to hear tunes from their own set list.
Strict Tempo dancing - Waltz, Latin, (Moon River, Tenderly, Blue Bossa, Wave, Girl from Ipanema etc)
Ballad - (Misty, Summertime)
Jazz Standards - (All the Things You Are, Take the A-train)
Country - (Crazy, Achy Breaky Heart)
Rock 'n' Roll - (Hound Dog, Blue Suede Shoes, Rock Around the Clock)
Soul, R&B - (Proud Mary, Mustang sally Midnight Hour)
Rock, Pop & Disco - (Dancing Queen, Hotel California, I Will Survive - to present day)
The "look" of the band is very important; they should wear formal attire but may wish to change into lounge suit for the more modern numbers (it is fine to stop the video as long as the songs are recorded live) also, girls should wear clothes suitable for evening wear onboard cruise ships.
String Quartets & Solo Performers -
Piano, Harp, Vibes and Guitar:
Due to the nature of solo performers, with the exception of Guitarists (who occasionally perform with the showband) these players do not need to sight read music. They are required to play background music usually through out the day time. As such, a large repertoire of Background, Easy listening, Jazz, Light Classical and Show tunes.
The DVD should be in Formal attire and 30 to 45 minutes in length.
Production Manager
Responsible for running the production shows and managing the technical staff. Extensive technical and practical education and /or hands-on experience required.
Assistant Production Manager
Assisting in running the production shows and any activities that require technical assistance. - extensive technical and practical education and /or hands-on experience required.
Sound & Light Technicians
Assisting in running the production shows and any activities that require technical assistance - technical and practical education and /or hands-on experience required.
Cruise Staff
Organizing passengers activities-golf, quizzes, bingo etc. - experience mandatory. Fluent English Language skills required.
Disc Jockey
The successful candidate will be responsible for running the production shows and managing the technical staff; assistant stage manager, sound & light technician and video. Assists at any passenger's activity that requires technical assistance, reports directly to the cruise director, provides excellent customer services accommodating all passenger music requests, may be required to be Master of Ceremonies for Bingo Sessions, Water Games, etc., a wide knowledge of various musical styles is required, since passengers can have extremely different tastes, performs cruise staff duties when assigned. Required extensive technical and practical education and / or hands-on experience are required for this position, experience with state-of-the-art computerized sound mixing boards, previous experience as a Disc / Video Jockey with knowledge of current Top Music.
Fitness Instructors
Passengers exercise activities, sports - experience required. Fluent English Language skills required.
Youth Activities Coordinators
Organizing children's activities - some experience with children preferred. Fluent English Language skills required.
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