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🗓️ 13 March 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Princess Cruises today announced a first-of-its-kind cruise industry partnership with three-time Oscar winner and composer of Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell; Stephen Schwartz. The cruise line’s new relationship with such a major creative talent from Broadway and Hollywood includes a multi-year agreement to oversee the creative development of four new musicals to debut across the fleet over the next several years.

During his 40-year career, Schwartz has won four Grammy's, three Academy Awards for “Best Song” and “Best Score” for Pocahontas and “Best Song” for The Prince of Egypt, and has been nominated for six Tony Awards. He is the only songwriter in Broadway history to ever have three shows run more than 1,900 performances.

On this episode from New York City, we talk with Broadway celebrity Stephen Schwartz and Love Boat television personality Jill Whelan (Vicki Stubing).

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0:00.0	Broadcasting from the EnsuremyTrip.com Mobile Studios.
0:04.0	This is, FUS.
0:05.0	Cruise Radio.
0:06.0	Hey, what's up?
0:07.0	My name is Doug Parker.
0:08.0	We are broadcasting live from the Hudson Theater in Midtown, Manhattan, like, I think we're
0:13.0	midtown, like Times Square, 40 seconds, something like that.
0:15.0	Yeah, why not?
0:16.0	The reason we're here, though, very cool partnership, Princess Cruises did today,
0:20.0	teaming up with the one
0:22.3	and only the talented stephen schwartz this dude has like everything under his belt got grammies
0:28.2	oscars tony award nominations uh he has scored for pocahontas the prince of egypt we can go on and on
0:35.0	what this guy's done oh yeah i got to say as someone who hasn't ever been to a Broadway show before, after tonight, I'm definitely going to a Broadway show. That was Mike Foss withcrucurentz.com. Also joining me is Ben Sousa withcruzfever.net. He has an easy last name, Mike, so I can actually say his last name. Ben, what did you think about this partnership? I love it. I really love what he's going to bring as far as entertainment.
0:57.6	Bringing in just Broadway and all of his experience, all the things, his lifetime achievements,
1:03.0	it's going to be really great.
1:04.7	So I'm not a big Broadway fan.
1:07.4	Like I've seen maybe two shows on Broadway and one was off Broadway.
1:10.7	But after seeing this tonight, I think I'm going to be spending a little more time in New York here. Oh, definitely. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to come to a Broadway show, this is the place to go. So the first show that's going to be rolling out is called Magic to Do, and then Stephen Schwartz is also creating three more shows, which have not been named yet. And we'll talk to Stephen here in just a couple of minutes here on the show. But the shows will debut on Crown Princess, Emerald Princess, and Ruby Princess, all within the next few months. So that's really exciting. I want to ask you, Mike, because you're of the younger generation. What are your thoughts of a partnership like Stephen Schwartz, who's like an icon on Broadway,
1:45.9	with a cruise line? Because it can be said that that could be a step down. I don't agree. Honestly,
1:51.3	you know what? I am younger, obviously, but I do have more, I'd say a refined taste compared to
1:56.0	most younger people. I think it's really cool to be seeing a cruise line bring on such like a talented man such as Stephen Swartz here, Schwartz.
2:04.3	I mean, it's so unique. I mean, a lot of cruise lines already have like Broadway productions on board,
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