In the world of cruising, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) are renowned for their commitment to bringing Broadway-calibre entertainment to the high seas. We talk with Eve about all things musical theatre on board an NCL ship, and get the inside scoop on the exciting, starstudded life of a showstopper, bringing the magic to NCL guests every evening.
How did you get into the industry?
know about. So I think it’s so important that her story gets told and a musical gets put out there. Although it was on Broadway, it hasn’t come over to the UK. I think it’s lovely that it is on a ship, so it gets all different types of audiences in, and the story gets told to all different types of people. Also, the musical itself is a beautiful piece of artwork. What were your first impressions on board the ship? I actually got on board the ship before it was even finished. So, my first impression of the outside was it was absolutely incredible - on board was a construction site. It was the craziest experience! But you could see how everything was going to come together. And when it did, it was absolutely incredible.
My first impression, once it was complete, was this feels really young and fresh. It feels like I could bring my friends on this ship. It’s got go-carts, it’s got VR, it’s got escape rooms - that’s stuff that we love to do. Plus the theatre has seats that come all the way back and turn into a club. That’s two of my favourite things, theatre and clubs! Can you describe a typical day? So on a show day, we’ll be called at 3pm to do all the different warm-ups. Then, we’ll be called again at 5pm to start getting ready for the show. Sometimes we have two shows in one evening, sometimes we have experiences after the show, like Disco Wonderland. On these nights, we have about 20 minutes for us to get fully changed out of our Summer costumes and put on our Disco
I got into the industry when I was very young. I started off doing ballet because my Uncle was a dancer, he was in the Moulin Rouge. He used to choreograph amateur productions and he would take me to the kitchen and spin me around and try out choreography on me. So from a very young age, I’d always been introduced to musicals and dancing, and that was really his influence. What was your first exposure to musical theatre? So I’ll never forget, I went to see Beauty and the Beast with my mum, and I remember sitting in the theatre and crying, saying, “please, I don’t want it to end!” I must have been around four or five years old and I was just so moved by what happened on stage. I remember,
I went back and watched it again because I found it that magical.
From a very young age, it was always my plan to do musical theatre. My first professional debut was back in 2019 and I did Sleeping Beauty. After that I did the LOL Surprise arena tour and then I found out I got Summer: The Donna Summer Musical with NCL. How would you describe being in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical? I am obsessed with the disco era and Donna Summer is an absolute icon. I am grateful that I get to carry on her legacy. Not many people know about the life of Donna Summer, they just know her as a huge icon in the 70s and 80s. A lot of female black singers in that era, they struggled and they went through a lot of things that not many people
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