Norwegian
Cruise Line Announces “Star Seeker” First Round
Winners
Indiana
barber and Colorado shipping manager will perform aboard NCL
ships this fall
MIAMI,
September 25, 2003 – Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has
named Pat Catanzarite of South Bend, Ind. and Anton Mallard
of Denver, Colo. as first round winners of its new “Star
Seekers” passenger talent competition, which offers
NCL guests the opportunity to wow their fellow cruisers and
possibly win a full-time entertainment contract aboard an
NCL ship!
Star
Seekers is offered on voyages aboard all of NCL’s ships.
Contestants deliver a three-minute routine showcasing their
particular talent before an audience of fellow passengers,
while a panel of judges selects winners based on each performer’s
entertainment value and the crowd’s reaction. Judges
include the ship’s hotel and cruise directors, plus
a musician and a performer from the ship’s professional
entertainment staff. First-round winners such as Catanzarite
and Mallard, receive a complimentary NCL cruise during which
they serve as a featured entertainer in a 45-minute cabaret
show.
If
they wow the crowd as guest entertainers, they will have the
chance to become full-time featured performers onboard NCL
ships with a professional contract.
Catanzarite, a barber, will be cruising as a stand-up comic
on the Sept. 28, 2003 Bermuda cruise on Norwegian Majesty
out of Boston. Said Catanzarite, “My speaking career
started at my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary and
I haven’t stopped talking since.”
Meanwhile, Mallard, a shipping manager, will be sailing as
a singer on the Nov. 1, 2003 Western Caribbean cruise on Norwegian
Wind out of Miami. Listing Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder among
his main musical influences, Mallard said, “I am fortunate
that people enjoy my singing and love for music as much as
I do.”
“Star
Seekers has been a runaway hit and also serves to spotlight
the wealth of untapped talent among our guests from all over
the country,” said Keith Cox, NCL’s vice president
of entertainment and onboard programming. “We are looking
forward to these two talented performers shows and many other
future Star Seeker winners.”
Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line is an industry innovator.
NCL recently announced its new brand, NCL America, under which
its US flagged ships will operate. The company is currently
building its first US Flagged ship, Pride of America, which
begins inter-island Hawaii cruises on July 4, 2004. NCL is
also the leader in roundtrip seven-day cruising from U.S.
and Canadian ports, offering its popular Homeland Cruising
program seasonally from Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Los
Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Orlando (Port Canaveral),
San Juan, Seattle and Vancouver, and year round from New York,
Houston and Honolulu.
For
further information on NCL, agents in the U.S. and Canada
may contact NCL at (800) 327-7030; visit NCL’s website
at www.ncl.com or on AOL at keyword: NCL; or to download high-resolution
versions of the photographs below visit www.ncl.com/hires.
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