A Moment Like This
Note: All reference images used from other sources and not owned by me.
A Moment Like This celebrates the moments of our lives that we capture on film. Iconic images spring to life while encapsulating shared experiences we can all relate to – youth, first love, breakups, marriage. We see the original, iconic image that then morphs into the performers as they sing and dance to some of the best modern hits.
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With a combination of solos, duets, and group numbers, a company made up of singers (two male and two female) and dancers (four male and four female) capture, in each song, a moment in time. Together, they weave a throughline that shows how these images are etched into our DNA—individually capturing fleeting moments, but collectively telling the story of our entire lives.
The show immediately sets its tone by mashing up If I Could Turn Back Time (Cher), Thnks fr th Mmrs (Fall Out Boy), Photograph (Nickelback), Centuries (Fall Out Boy), #Selfie (Chainsmokers), and Hey Ya (Outkast) while live images of the singers are captured as they sing about creating memories, and the dancers “shake it like a Polaroid picture.”
The show unfolds as the full cast embodies universal illustrations of school life in Kodachrome (Paul Simon). All stages of love are represented from the romance of a wedding day with a male and female singer duetting while dancers partner up in Photograph (Ed Sheeran) and From This Moment On (Shania Twain), to the memories of love gone by with a spot lit solo in When We Were Young (Adele), to the fury of a breakup with a female duet of Picture (Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow) and Picture to Burn (Taylor Swift). Even the most recognizable images from the world of sports inspire the audience as the four singers belt out One Moment in Time (Whitney Houston).
The dancers are also featured in Girls on Film (Duran Duran) with the female dancers mirroring some of the most famous looks of movie characters, Freeze Frame (J Geils Band) where the male dancers defy gravity and tap on girders recreating the famous Lunch atop a Skyscraper photo, and then Paparazzi (Lady Gaga) where they all join together to walk the runway in moves that any paparazzi would kill to capture on film.
The finale is Kelly Clarkson's A Moment Like This,
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However, instead of using historical and more typical stock images, the images now shown are images of the actual audience from their time on the current cruise (thanks to the multitudes of photos that are taken on the ships). The audience sees themselves and recognizes that they're creating and capturing their own moments, inspiring them to continue creating even more. And continue to visit the photo galleries on board!
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The importance these snapshots of our lives has on us culminates in the curtain call – (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life (Dirty Dancing) . The cast sings, dances, and takes selfies with the audience, making the performance an experience they’ll always remember.