Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Friday, June 30, 2006 St. Petersburg, Russia – Day 2 Today was a much better day. We moved rehearsal up to 1030 so that we all could have time to get off the ship. After rehearsal, Elena, the pianist who is performing tonight invited Celina and I to go out with her and Tom Sutton. It was certainly a good thing to hook up with Elena, as she is Russian, and it is never bad to hang around with someone who...

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Thursday, June 29, 2006 St. Petersburg, Russia – Day 1 Well, I am stuck on the ship today so I guess I will make the best of it. We had a raft drill this morning, and the makeup traffic director’s training pretty much right after the drill. We also had to exchange our lifejackets for new ones, as all of the lifejackets are being replaced over the next two days. It is so amazingly fun… I did stop by the...

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Helsinki, Finland So today I was up, barley coherent to see the Chief Officer at 0600. Basically he said that they were not happy that people missed the meeting and that we were going to have another meeting tomorrow, and that we can’t get off the ship today and most of tomorrow. So, it isn’t the end of the world. There were about 10-15 people who missed the meeting, so I can...

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Visby, Gotland, Sweeden Well today we were only in port for the morning, and it was a tender pot as well. We also had rehearsal in the morning for Sally Jones, the evening’s performer. So, needless to say I didn’t get the chance to go ashore. Sot it was a pretty routine day, not much going on besides rehearsal and the shows. It was a formal night tonight, and the Captain’s...

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Monday, June 26, 2006 Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark Today I could have slept in, but I had plans to go out with some of the cruise staff around 1030. After we got off the ship we saw a bike rental place where we each picked up a bike to ride around the town. The weather today was not great, it was drizzling a little when we got off the ship, and the sky was overcast all day. As we rode into town it started...