Synopsis
Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s Tony Award-winning musical explores the hopes, dreams and ambitions of passengers and crew on history’s most famous ship. From the luxury of first-class travellers to the humble steerage immigrants seeking new lives in America, each character shares a vision of progress and possibility. As the ship sails toward disaster, those dreams collide with harsh reality, revealing the courage, humanity and hubris that defined the age. With a sweeping score and interwoven stories of love, loss and survival, Titanic transforms a historic tragedy into an epic portrait of faith and endurance.
Reviews
“There is one song that manages to meld an affecting and vivid sense of the individual with the work’s broader thematic sweep: a duet in which the ship’s radio operator and one of its stokers (Martin Moran and Brian d’Arcy James, both excellent) sing of their respective obsessions with modern technology and the girl waiting at home.”
The New York Times
“There is no doubt in my mind that Yeston and Stone’s Titanic is the finest and most important new American musical in over a decade. Three cheers to the Dodgers and their partners for the courage to produce such a show, and three more cheers for the theater-going public that has so enthusiastically embraced this unlikely hit. Sail on indeed, great ship!”
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