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Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Gdansk, Poland – Day 2 Today started at 0930 with a fire drill followed by a surprise traffic director’s drill. That was exciting. To top that off, there was no water this morning as they were working on the plumbing. So, no shower this morning. As…

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Gdansk, Poland – Day 1 Today was a half sea day, half port day as we didn’t arrive in Gdansk until about 1600. So this morning started like a sea day with a port lecture by Barbara at 0930. After the lecture we had a captain’s…

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Monday, July 3, 2006 Stockholm, Sweeden Today was a pretty easy day. I decided not to get off the ship today as I am not feeling to great. We had rehearsal for Jazzamatazz this morning at 1000.. Celina is running this show, so I didn’t really have to do anything…

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Sunday, July 2, 2006 Tallinn, Estonia Unfortunately this morning I had to get up and be out of my room by 0900 as we had cabin inspections today. So I headed up for breakfast as soon as I was out of the room, and then I had a little bit…

Stage Manager’s Log M.S. Prinsendam Saturday, July 1, 2006 St. Petersburg, Russia – Day 3 I started today early, for me that is. I met up with Elena and Tom again at 0930 at the gangway and headed ashore. It was kind of funny because they didn’t think that I would make it there, that…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…