Overview
Synopsis
April 10, 1912: the RMS Titanic sets out from London on her maiden voyage, across the Atlantic. Billed as “The Largest Floating Object in The World,” the Titanic is already big news. April 15, 1912: Titanic, the “unsinkable” ship, sinks, killing over 1500 men, women and children. In a stunning chamber musical as massive as the ocean liner that shares its name, Yeston and Peter Stone’s musical, Titanic, tells the stories of the people on board the legendary steamer and the men who got them there. Spanning all classes, Titanic captures the stories from the whole range of humanity aboard the ship: from workers in the boiler room to first-class attendants, from the poorest passengers, who scraped together their life savings to purchase third-class tickets to America, to some of the wealthiest men of the Victorian age, including John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s musical tells the tragic story with a compassionate book, intelligent lyrics, and soaring melodies. Full of memorable characters based on the real men and women on the ship, Titanic is a powerful, complex look at the making of a tragedy.
Show Information
- Book
- Peter Stone
- Music
- Maury Yeston
- Lyrics
- Maury Yeston
- Category
- Musical
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- First Produced
- 1997
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Historical/Biographical
- Settings
- Spectacle
- Time & Place
- the ship titanic, 1912
- Cast Size
- large
- Orchestra Size
- Large
- Dancing
- Musical Staging
- Licensor
- Concord Theatricals
- Ideal For
- Community Theatre, Regional Theatre, Mostly Male Cast, Includes Adult, Mature Adult, Young Adult, Late Teen, Early Teen, Child Characters, Large Cast
Context
The Titanic, a member of the White Star Line. was the largest ship ever built. Its maiden voyage began in London, England on April 10, 1912. The ship, widely promoted as “unsinkable,” struck an iceberg in the Atlantic late in the evening on April 14, 1912, and sank, a tragedy that claimed the lives of more than 1,500 passengers and crew. The Titanic became the world’s most famous and deadly commercial shipwrecks in modern history.
In 1985, the sunken Titanic was discovered in its
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Act One
Thomas Andrews, a ship designer, summarizes the great advances and inventions in history, concluding with what he believes is the greatest yet: his design of the brand-new ocean liner, the RMS Titanic (“In Every Age”). Frederick Barrett, a stoker on the Titanic, admires the ship as it sits in the harbor (“How Did They Build Titanic”). He bids farewell to his bride before boarding the steamer, sailing to America (“Fare-thee-well"). Barrett is soon joined by other crew
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Songs
Act One
- Overture - Orchestra
- In Every Age - Mr. Andrews
- How Did They Build Titanic? - Barrett
- Fare-thee-well - Barrett, Bride & Fleet
- There She Is - Barrett, Bride, Fleet, Hartley, Sailor, Stoker & Stevedore
- The Largest Floating Object in The World - Mr. Ismay, Mr. Andrews & Captain Smith
- I Must Get On That Ship - Ensemble
- The First Class Roster - Pitman and Alice
- Godspeed Titanic - Pitman & Full company
- Barrett's Song - Barrett
- What A Remarkable Age This Is - Etches, 1st-Class & Serving Staff
- To Be A Captain - Murdoch
- Lady's Maid - The Three Kates & Ensemble
- The Proposal / The Night Was Alive - Barrett & Bride
- God Lift Me Up (Hymn) - 1st-Class passengers
- Doing The Latest Rag- Hartley, Bricoux, Taylor & Ensemble
- I Have Danced - Alice & Edgar
- No Moon - Ensemble
- Autumn - Hartley
- Finale Act One - Orchestra
Act Two
- Entr'acte - Orchestra
- Wake Up, Wake Up! - Etches, Stewards, 1st-, 2nd-, & 3rd-class passengers
- Dressed In Your Pyjamas In the Grand Salon - Ensemble
- The Staircase - The Three Kates & Farrell with Barrett
- The Blame - Mr. Ismay, Mr. Andrews & Captain Smith
- To the Lifeboats - Ensemble
- We'll Meet Tomorrow - Barrett, Charles & Company
- To Be A Captain (Reprise) - Etches
- Still - Ida and Isidor
- Mr. Andrews' Vision - Mr. Andrews
- The Foundering - Survivors
- Finale - In Every Age/ Godspeed, Titanic (Reprise) - Company
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Key Terms
Visually striking and impactful elements of a performance.
Relating to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) or a person who lived in the Victorian era.
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