Royal Caribbean International to feature 90-minute truncated musical CHICAGO on newest cruise ship

I think this is a very interesting idea. I mean, stage musicals work on the Disney Cruises, why not here? I do understand the content maybe a little "inappropriate" for younger children, but hey! Go for it!

I'm pretty sure there will be other shows as well. I know that the Oasis of the Seas (the current "newest" Royal Caribbean ship has versions of Hairspray and Come Fly With Me. In a typical 7 day cruise, the entertainers will do 3 different shows, usually with different themes. I worked for Jean Ann Ryan on Norwegian Cruise Lines for a long time and we had a Broadway show, a "pop" show, and Cirque-style show on each ship. We did the shows twice a night, as they were only 45 minutes long. I'm assuming since RCCL is doing 90-minute shows that they will only be done once a night. Your basic schedule as a performer is one show day, one day off, show day, day off, etc. There is always a runthru of a given show on that day, so show days are really taken up. It's a really great, easy performance schedule, though :)

Oops, sorry, my mistake. Got the titles of the shows confused...my brain kept saying "come fly away" but I didn't think I was right about that. I guess that's how Royal Caribbean is doing the shows if they are doing 90 minute versions. Several days of one show, and then several days of another. I guess it makes sense to run it several days in a row because 90 minutes is kind of a big time commitment for an evening on a cruise ship (dinner can take hours sometimes) and running it for a few days would give more people an opportunity to check it out.

For the record, it wasn't only during dinner time. They had matinee performances too. The new class of Royal Caribbean ships run the shows on a standard theatre schedule and not a dinner theatre schedule like most ships.