Shows · Titanic
In the prologue, “In Every Age,” Thomas Andrews (Michael Cerveris), shipbuilder and designer of Titanic, explains how each generation’s dreams are grander than those of the past. His dream has been to create a floating city. (Titanic had three libraries, a gymnasium, a Turkish bath, a putting course and a 33-foot indoor swimming pool.)
- Opened
- 1997
- Performances
- 804
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1997 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. April 23, 1997 · Richard Jones | 804 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 2006 | Transfer Theatre unknown. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
26 passages naming Titanic, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Titanic opened to mixed reviews after severe technical mishaps during previews with a set that recreated the tipping of the decks on the doomed ocean liner. Nevertheless, Peter Stone's story and the choral score by Maury Yeston struck a chord with audiences, and the show went on to win five Tony Awards, including Best… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p59
In his second historic libretto, for Titanic (the first letterboxed musical), Stone had much more difficulty grasping on to a narrative line. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p290
Titanic, with book by Peter Stone and score by Maury Yeston, debuts at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, playing for 804 performances. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p32
The show was noted to have given the characters far more individuality than those in his book for Titanic. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p304
And he wryly noted “how overjoyed the world might have been had the newspaper been invented after the computer.” The cast recording was released by Oglio Records, and audio excerpts from the revue are available for download on MP3 Music. MARTIN GUERRE The musical opened on September 29, 1999, at the Guthrie Theatre, Mi… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p403
In 1997 he played the Builder, Thomas Andrews, in the musical Titanic (1997). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p110
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