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FORT LAUDERDALE — Norwegian Cruise Line said Friday that the featured main theater show on the Norwegian Bliss will be the Broadway production “Jersey Boys.”
The musical about ’50s singer Frankie Valli and his group The Four Seasons ran on Broadway from 2005 to 2017. It won a Tony award for best musical in 2006, and Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Andy Stuart said it will be the only Broadway musical on a cruise ship to have done so.
Songs include “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Sherry,” “December 1963 (Oh, What A Night),” “My Eyes Adored You,” “Stay,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Working My Way Back to You” and “Rag Doll.”
The title refers to the fact that the members of the Four Seasons were from New Jersey.
The Norwegian Bliss is scheduled to makes its debut at a newly expanded terminal in downtown Seattle in June 2018. The 4,000-passenger ship will become the biggest in the Alaska market during the summer and will do eastern Caribbean itineraries in the winter.
Jersey Boys continues a string of headline shows that started with Blue Man Group on the Norwegian Epic. After seeing cruise ship entertainment mocked by Simon Cowell on “American Idol,” Stuart said Norwegian consciously set out to improve its entertainment so that it would be an attraction for cruise passengers.
Blue Man Group was followed on the Norwegian Breakaway by the musical “Rock of Ages,” on Norwegian Getaway by “Million Dollar Quartet,” and on Norwegian Escape by “After Midnight.”
“We had this progression of entertainment that became more and more ambitious,” Stuart said in announcing the show at CLIA’s Cruise3sixty conference. He said the addition of “Jersey Boys” “continues to push the envelope.”
A second major theater show, still in development, will feature the music and culture of Cuba and will be created and performed by Cuban and Cuban-American artists under the direction of Norwegian’s vice president of entertainment, Richard Ambrose.
Also, Norwegian said that the comedy club and nightclub that are separate venues on recent ships will be combined into a new performance space called Alibi, which will feature comedy earlier in the evening and then become a late-night dance venue.
Norwegian Bliss will also feature a wrinkle on “Wine Lovers — The Musical,” a show that paired musical theater with a wine tasting. Called “Happy Hour Prohibition — The Musical,” the new show will be set in a New Orleans speakeasy and serve Prohibition-era cocktails instead of wine.
Sоurсе: travelweekly.com
