Marnvista
May 14th, 2006, 11:18 PM
DH and I arrived home yesterday. We enjoyed the Oosterdam's first Alaskan cruise of the season. We had the awesome experience of being the first ship of the season at Hubbard Glacier. How fabulous!
On Friday, we were to dock in Victoria at 6:00PM so dinner was moved up to 5:PM. At 4:00PM the Superstar Finals were held in the large theatre. For those not aware, all week there are preliminaries narrowing down the field to three finalists. We had not attended any of these but were looking forward to the very best of pax talent.
The first contestant was a 14 year old girl from Tennessee and she sang 2 Brittany Spears songs (ugh). Then there was a handsome young man who sang a very pleasant ballad. The last was a middle aged Tennessee gentleman with an equally nice voice. Our CD, Que, said the selection that he expected to sing wouldn't come up on the machine so at the last minute another selection was substituted, The Impossible Dream.
Then the handsome young man came out again and he realized the intro to his song wasn't correct so he exited the stage to press in the correct numbers. Meanwhile the Tennessee gentleman was asked to return and he belted out The Twist and had the whole theatre hooting and hollering and when he started doing the twist had everyone on their feet in the aisles going wild. Que said he had never experienced such a reaction from an audience and it was by far the best performance he had ever seen from a pax. The handsome young man returned and did a pleasant number but there was little audience enthusiasm. It was 5:00PM and 'natives were getting restless' and wanted to go to dinner but waited while Que, his assistant, and the ship's comedian commented and tallied their votes. Everyone wanted to be there so they could applaud the winner. The handsome young man won. The audience booed loudly and turned and left the theater. :mad:
We were on the Oosterdam in February and attended the Superstar Finale. The three contestants were a spunky old woman and two younger, possibly more talented pax. The audience definitely was behind the spunky woman and she won and everyone applauded and felt happy and went off with a smile. :p
But on this cruise the pax were disgusted and at dinner the subject was the source of much irritation. So it seemed a disappointing way to end a cruise. By the way, we are from CA.
Mariners in Vista
On Friday, we were to dock in Victoria at 6:00PM so dinner was moved up to 5:PM. At 4:00PM the Superstar Finals were held in the large theatre. For those not aware, all week there are preliminaries narrowing down the field to three finalists. We had not attended any of these but were looking forward to the very best of pax talent.
The first contestant was a 14 year old girl from Tennessee and she sang 2 Brittany Spears songs (ugh). Then there was a handsome young man who sang a very pleasant ballad. The last was a middle aged Tennessee gentleman with an equally nice voice. Our CD, Que, said the selection that he expected to sing wouldn't come up on the machine so at the last minute another selection was substituted, The Impossible Dream.
Then the handsome young man came out again and he realized the intro to his song wasn't correct so he exited the stage to press in the correct numbers. Meanwhile the Tennessee gentleman was asked to return and he belted out The Twist and had the whole theatre hooting and hollering and when he started doing the twist had everyone on their feet in the aisles going wild. Que said he had never experienced such a reaction from an audience and it was by far the best performance he had ever seen from a pax. The handsome young man returned and did a pleasant number but there was little audience enthusiasm. It was 5:00PM and 'natives were getting restless' and wanted to go to dinner but waited while Que, his assistant, and the ship's comedian commented and tallied their votes. Everyone wanted to be there so they could applaud the winner. The handsome young man won. The audience booed loudly and turned and left the theater. :mad:
We were on the Oosterdam in February and attended the Superstar Finale. The three contestants were a spunky old woman and two younger, possibly more talented pax. The audience definitely was behind the spunky woman and she won and everyone applauded and felt happy and went off with a smile. :p
But on this cruise the pax were disgusted and at dinner the subject was the source of much irritation. So it seemed a disappointing way to end a cruise. By the way, we are from CA.
Mariners in Vista