{"id":26419,"date":"2015-12-10T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26419"},"modified":"2015-12-10T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:00:02","slug":"thursday-153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26419","title":{"rendered":"Princess Royalty For Entertainers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It won\u2019t rank with American Idol or any of TV\u2019s music reality shows, but competing for \"AJ-Jamal\"<\/a>Entertainer-of-the-Year on a Princess<\/a> cruise ship can be a step in the right direction. And in March, four finalists will compete for votes to win the accolade on the Caribbean Princess<\/a> after it leaves Houston<\/a> on a 7-day cruise.<\/p>\n

The four are comedian A.J. Jamal<\/a>\u00a0(right); magician Alex Ramon<\/a>\u00a0(left)\u00a0singer, dancer and musician Nathan Foley<\/a>\u00a0(below right); and piano player and keyboardist John Dressler<\/a>\u00a0(below left). The winner will be the fifth Entertainer-of-the-Year for \"Alex<\/a>Princess, as chosen by cruise-ship passengers.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, we were on the Crown Princess<\/a> to see number 2, singer Tony Tillman, above with Cruise Director Lisa Ball. This week\u2019s announcement had us wondering what became of him and his three finalists from 2013: a comedian and overall entertainer named Sarge<\/a>, a comedy duo named Alfred and Seymour; and mentalist Wayne Hoffman.<\/p>\n

Today, Tony Tillman (now 69) is still listed with a talent agency and available for performances as a recent vintage of Sammy Davis Jr<\/a>. Sarge seems to be booked as much as he wants to be, \"Nathan-Foley\"<\/a>mostly in comedy concerts, mostly in Florida. Alfred and Seymour<\/a>, who calls themselves the The Black StreetBoyz<\/i>, entertain passengers regularly on Princess ships. Wayne Hoffman has a website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All were talented, just as all four of the 2016 finalists surely are.<\/p>\n

Jamal, calls himself the \u201cKing of Clean\u201d which infers family comedy, has been on The Tonight Show. Ramon is among only 20 illusionists to win one of The Christopher Awards<\/a> (for work that \u201caffirms the highest values of the human spirit\u201d) and \"John-Bressler\"<\/a>created a magical accompaniment for Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards<\/a>. Foley has 23 years of stage and TV experience in Australia, where he won a slew of awards. Bressler is multi-talented and Princess describes his show as a \u201cmust-see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anybody who has been to shows on cruise ships knows these people don\u2019t get there without being good. What nobody really knows is how good.<\/p>\n

Winning Entertainer-of-the-Year is worth $5,000 but for them, it\u2019s not about the money. It\u2019s more about what it could<\/i> mean to their careers.<\/p>\n

In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n

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Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>The ultimate ‘going green’ \u2014 Ecoship<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nCelebrity Eclipse
\n<\/a>14 nights
\nMarch 20, 2016
\nMiami<\/a> (return): St. Maarten<\/a>, St. Kitts<\/a>, Antigua<\/a>, St. Lucia<\/a>, Barbados<\/a>, Aruba<\/a>, Curacao
\n<\/a>Inside: $1,399
\nCost per day: $99<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It won\u2019t rank with American Idol or any of TV\u2019s music reality shows, but competing for Entertainer-of-the-Year on a Princess cruise ship can be a step in the right direction. And in March, four finalists will compete for votes to win the accolade on the Caribbean Princess after it leaves Houston on a 7-day cruise.… Continue reading Princess Royalty For Entertainers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,15],"tags":[2158,2159,2160,137,564,138,451,648,912,72,819,1176,35,1177,2161,1342,2162,26,27,957,2163,1178,2164],"class_list":["post-26419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-stories","tag-a-j-jamal","tag-alex-ramon","tag-alfred-and-seymour","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-caribbean-princess","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-eclipse","tag-crown-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ship-entertainers","tag-cruises","tag-entertainer-of-the-year","tag-john-bressler","tag-lisa-ball","tag-nathan-foley","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-sarge","tag-tony-tillman","tag-wayne-hoffman","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}