1. IN EVERY AGE
ANDREWS
In every age mankind attempts
To fabricate great works
At once magnificent
And impossible...
On desert sands, from mountains of stone
A pyramid!
From flying buttresses alone
A wall of light!
A chapel ceiling
Screaming one man's ecstasy!
One man's ecstasy...
Miracles them all!
China's endless wall...
Stonehenge, The Parthenon, The Duomo
The aqueducts of Rome
We did not attempt to make
With mammoth blocks of stone
A giant pyramid
No, not a pyramid...
Nor gothic walls that radiate with light...
Our task was to dream upon
And then create
A floating city!
Floating city!...
A human metropolis...
A complete civilization!
Sleek!
And fast!
At once a poem
And the perfection
Of physical engineering...
At once a poem
And the perfection
Of physical engineering...
2. HOW DID THEY BUILD TITANIC?
BARRETT
How did they build Titanic?
Near a thousand feet in length.
Huge beyond past endeavor
Strong beyond mortal strength
Forty-six thousand tons of steel
Eleven stories high!
She's a great palace, floating...
Quiet as a lullaby
3. THERE SHE IS
BARRETT
Fare-thee-well, my darlin'
I'll be back before a fortnight has passed...
BRIDE
Fare-thee-well, my dalin'
I'll be back before a
Fortnight has BARRETT & FLEET
Passed... Fare-thee-well, my darlin'
ALL THREE
...I'll be back before a fortnight has passed!
BARRETT
Barrett- stoker off the Baltic-
FLEET
Fleet- lookout off the Majestic-
BRIDE
Harold Bride- wireless operator with the Marconi
Telegraph Company.
BARRETT, BRIDE& FLEET
There she is ...
Towering high...
Broad and grand...
Ship of dreams!
BARRETT, BRIDE, FLEET& CREWMEN
Sailing day!
Morning bright!
Take your flight!
Ship of dreams!...
She strains at her lines,
The smoke from he funnels trailing.
Her prow like a knife,
She'll cut through the waves unfailing.
Soon to be
Underway,
Size and speed unexplored...
And I'll be aboard
That ship of dreams!
LOADING INVENTORY
STEVEDORE
7,000 heads of fresh lettuce, Titanic!
PITMAN
Morning, Mr. Lightoler
LIGHTOLER
Morning, Mr. Pitman
PITMAN
Morning, Mr. Boxhall
Morning, Captain Smith!
LIGHTOLER
Morning, Captian!
4TH OFFICER & BOXHALL
Morning, Captain...
STEVEDORE
36,000 Oranges, Titanic!
PITMAN
Morning, Mr. Hitchens
HITCHENS
Morning, Mr. Pitman
PITMAN
Morning, Mr. Murdoch
HITCHENS
Morning, Captain Smith
CAPTAIN SMITH
Morning, Murdoch
MURDOCH
Morning, Captain!
CAPTAIN SMITH
Mr. Pitman, please
Complete the loading of the freight
And prepare for the boarding of
The serving staff and crew!
PITMAN
Aye, Captain!
CREW & STAFF BELLBOY
There she is... Morning, Mr. Andrews
Hello, Mr. Ismay
Towering high! Morning, Mr. Etches
Hello, Mr. Pitman
Broad and grand! Morning, Mr. Whitely
Ship of dreams!
STEVEDORE
42,000 fresh eggs, Titanic!
CREW & STAFF BELLBOY
Sailing day!
Morning, Mr. Crawford
Hello, Mrs. Hutchinson
Morning bright!
Morning, Mrs. Robinson
Hello, Mrs. Beecham
Take you flight...
Morning, Mr. Weikman!
Ship of dreams!
PITMAN
122,000 pounds of meat, poultry and fish, Titanic!
STEVEDORE
40 tons of potatoes, 1,100 pounds of marmalade,
37,000 bottles of wine, beer and spirits, Titanic!
PITMAN
55,000 china dishes and 20,000 crystal drinking glasses, Titanic!
STEVEDORE
One Renault town carriage motorcar, Titanic!
CREW & STAFF BELLBOY
Soon to be...
Morning, Mr. Widgery
Hello, Mr. Oliver
Underway...
Morning, Mr. Hartley
Size and speed Hello, Mr. Joughin
Cheers! Mr. Weikman
Unexplored...
ALL
...And I'll be aboard that ship of dreams!
THE LARGEST MOVING OBJECT
ISMAY
Captain Smith, has there ever been
A finer morning to sail?
CAPT. SMITH
Never quite like this, Mr. Ismay!
Never quite like this one, Sir!
ISMAY
Mr. Andrews, has the line ever had
A faster ship for the mail?
ANDREWS
Not as fast as this, Mr. Ismay!
Never quite like this one, Sir!
ISMAY
The pride CAPT. SMITH & ANDREWS
The pride
ALL THREE
Of mankind...
Dmoinion over the sea!
ISMAY
The dream CAPT. SMITH & ANDREWS
The dream
ALL THREE
Of progress!
It brings great honor to me!
CAPT. SMITH
To be the master...
ANDREWS
And the builder!
ISMAY
And the owner!
ALL THREE
Of the largest moving object in the world!
4. I MUST GET ON THAT SHIP
PITMAN
3rd class passengers
Proceed at once to the gangway!
Please bring your boarding documents
And await further insructions!...
KATE MURPHEY
Holy Mother of God! Is that a ship or a mountian?
KATE MCGOWAN
It looks long enough so a body could walk to America!
I'm Katherine McGowan, but everyone calls me Kate.
KATE MULLINS
I'm Kate, too. Kate Mullins.
KATE MURPHEY
And I'm Kate three! Kate Murphey-
KATE MULLINS
It must be fate, then!
KATE MCGOWAN
It's not fate. It's Irish.
KATE MULLINS
You travellin' alone?
KATE MCGOWAN
Not me, I've got a feller. See that good-lookin' one
up ahead? I'm plannin' to marry him.
KATE MURPHEY
When's that gonna be?
KATE MCGOWAN
Soon as I meet him.
Get me aboard
THREE KATES
Call out my name
3RD CLASS PASSENGERS
It's to America we aim
To find a better life,
We prayed to make this trip!
Let all our children's children know
That this day long ago
We dreamt of them
And came aboard this ship!
ALL
For the maiden voyage!
For the maiden voyage!
Get us all aboard!
PITMAN
Second class passengers
Proceed to "C", "D" and "E" decks!
Please contact the ships purser
To arrange dining assignments!...
CHARLES CLARKE
No account in the National Press
Has quite done justice to this!
EDGAR BEANE
It's a sight for once in a lifetime!
EDGAR & ALICE BEANE, CLARKE & CAROLINE NEVILLE
Yes, a sight for once in a lifetime!
CLARKE
And the chance to run away
And marry now
We two daren't miss!
CAROLINE NEVILLE
It's a chance for once in a lifetime!
2ND CLASS PASSENGERS
Yes, a chance for once in a lifetime!
Can't wait to board that ship today,
Be with her when she pulls away
And takes her maiden sail,
I must get on that ship!
The largest, grandest on the earth,
And I've reserved a berth
To be aboard, now point me toward
That ship!
ALIBE BEANE
The finest people will attend.
The best among them we'll befriend
They'll stand right next to us,
Be at my fingertip...
ALL
Great heads of state and millionaires
Who run the world's affairs
Will be there.
I must get on that ship!
For the maiden voyage!
For the maiden voyage!
Get us all aboard!
5. THE FIRST CLASS ROSTER
PITMAN
Colonel John Jacob Astor
And Mrs. Astor, too.
Arriving now from the boat train
Direct from Waterloo station
May procced to their parlour suite
A-62!
ALICE BEANE
Her name is Madeleine
She's John Jacob Astor's second wife,
She's only nineteen-years-old
And now she's married to a prominent man
Worth over a hundred and fifty million
And twenty-nine years her senior!
They've only been married seven months
She's already seven months pregnant
And the scandal was such
They ran away to Europe to avoid the publicity!
Avoid the publicity!
PITMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus may proceed to Parlour Suite B-55!-
ALICE BEANE
Aren't they modest?
You'd never think by looking at them
That he and his brother own Macy's Department store...
Own Macy's Department store
Outright!
And he was very close advisor
To President Grover Cleveland
And served in the House of Representatives
Two full terms!
And that's his wife of forty years, named Ida
Sad! She hasn't been well
So the two of them have been wintering
On the French Riviera
French Riviera!
PITMAN
Mr. Benjamin Guggenheim and party will find his customary
suite on "A" deck!
ALICE BEANE
Made his money by smelting gold
Spends it like water
Forty-five hundred dollars for
The Louis Quatorze suite!
So he can live in luxurious sin
With his latest mistress!
And they call that justice!
They call that justice?...
PITMAN
Mr. and Mrs. George Widener may proceed to Promenade Suite b-51!
ALICE BEANE
He's the richest man in Philadelphia
PITMAN
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Thayer and family, Promenade Suite B-58!
ALICE BEANE
Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad!
PITMAN
Mrs. Charlotte Drake Cardoza, Suite B-54!
ALICE BEANE
No one really knows who she is
But the newspaper says she booked
The most expensive suite on the ship
And travels with fourteen steamer trunks
A medicine chest
Her personal pillows and sheets
And four little Pekinese dogs...
So she must be somebody!
She must be somebody!...
PITMAN
Last call for boarding!
This is the very last call for boarding!
ALL
Lift up the ramp
Let go the lines
Raise up her colours and designs!
Prepare for casting off
And through the port we'll slip
Each person standing at the rail,
Let one great thought prevail,
One single prayer...
God bless this noble ship!
PITMAN
All ashore who are going ashore!
All ashore who are going ashore!
6. GODSPEED TITANIC
COMPANY
Farewell, farewell
Godspeed, Titanic...
From your berth glide free!
As you plough the deep,
In your arms I'll keep.
Safely west
May you carry me.
Sail on, sail on
Grest ship, Titanic...
Cross the open sea
Pray the journey's sound
Till your port be found
Fortune's winds
Sing Godspeed to thee...
Fotune's winds
Sing Godspeed
To thee!
7. BARRETT'S SONG
BARRETT
She's sparkling clean, this new-born ship
But one old thing is clear
The orders they propose above
We execue down here...
We'll watch form here as up above
They'll catch a whiff of glory
This wonder ship may be brand new
But it's the same old story...
Stoke the fire in the hold
As the men draw back...
Feed the heat in the hold
As the men draw back
And the dust of the coal in the air is black
And a trickle of sweat runs down your back...
And what are the boys from the midlands doing here?
Coal it is that makes the steam
That runs the machines that run the world
That sends the men below the ground
To mine the coal
Each day...
From Leicestershire and Nottingham
Us lads who worked down in the pit
Knew if you got above the ground
You'd save your soul
Some way...
Get out of the pit
And westward I knew I could run
And ship out to sea and there my new life was begun...
And the screws are turning at seventy-one...
It became my dream to go out to sea...
Further out from the mine you couldn't be...
But, born to the coal, there's no place for you elsewhere
You trade a life of dank and gloom
To shovel in the boiler room
But now your seven decks below
A lady's dainty feet...
And nothing has changed
There's nothing a miner can do
The pit and your mates
Turned into the hold and the crew...
And the screws are turnin at seventy-two...
Faster and faster we watch as we gain ever more
Seventy-three, and too soon it is seventy-four...
For a record speed I belive we strive!
For the maiden ship that's too hard to drive
If you push her faster than seventy-five.
That is the truth
I swear!
8. TO BE A CAPTAIN
MURDOCH
Thousands on board
Each in his class
You are the master of all that must pass
Yours to set course
Yours to command
You hold their souls
In the palm of your hand
You hold their souls
In the palm of your hand
9. LADY'S MAID
KATE MCGOWAN
I will be a proper person
People will look up to me
What a girl that girl McGowan
Katie Violet Maude Marie
I aspire to heights of glory
In the new world that can be!
In that grandest nation I'll stand tall
Reach my highest hopes
Of all...
I want to be a lady's maid!
Lady's maid in America
In America the streets are paved with gold
KATE MURPHEY
I want to be a governess
Governess in America
In America it's better I am told
KATE MULLINS
I want to be a sewing girl
Sewing girl in America
In America I'll sew till I am old...
KATE MCGOWAN
There's a place called Chicago
I've seen it on the map
KATE MURPHEY
There's a place called Mary-land
I've seen it on the map
KATE MULLINS
There's a place in America
Called Albuquerque
And I'm hopin' it's a bit like Donegal
KATE MCGOWAN
Oh, I'm hopin' that it is...
MCGOWAN & MURPHEY
There I'm hopin that it is...
THREE KATES
Where my dreamin'
And my hopin' and my schemin'
And my payin' and my wishin' to be happy
Will come true enough
And...
1ST MAN
I want to be an engineer... KATE MCGOWAN
An engineer... Oh, I will be grand...
In America MURPHEY & MCGOWAN
The streets are paved with In America
Gold The streets are paved
With gold
2ND MAN
I want a shop to call my own... THREE KATES
To call my own... Oh, I will be grand...
In America MURPHEY & MCGOWAN
It's better I am told In America
It's better I am told...
ALL
Oh, far beyond the Northern sea
A new life can unfold
And I'm planning that it will
How I'm planning that it will
Where my dreamin'
And my hopin' and my schemin'
And my prayin and my wishin' to be happy
Will come tru enough
And...
3RD MAN
I want to be a millionaire!
Millionaire in America
Strike it rich and spend the fortune I amass...
4TH MAN
I want to be a constable!
Constable in America
In America you rise above your class...
ALL
Oh, there's the place your industry and talent
Can be sold...
KATE MCGOWAN
And I'm certain that it will...
THREE KATES
There I'm certain that it will...
GERMAN MAN
Ich will ein gutes leben haben...
ITALIAN MAN & WOMAN
Una bella vita negli stati uniti...
ALL
Where my dreamin'
And my hopin' and my schemin'
And my prayin and my wishin' to be happy
Will come tru enough
And...
I want to rise above myself...
THREE KATES & FARRELL
...Oh, I will be grand
TENORS & SOPRANOS
America, the streets
Are paved with gold...
THREE KATES & FARRELL
America, the streets
Are paved with gold...
ALTOS & BASSESS
America, the streets
Are paved with gold...
KATE MCGOWAN
I want to be a lady's maid...
3RD MAN
Millionaire...
1ST MAN
Engineer...
ALL
In America!
KATE MCGOWAN(to herself)
Better place for me and you...
Better land to start anew...
Better land for the baby...
That I
Hold
10. WHAT A REMARKABLE AGE THIS IS
ETCHES
My dear Mr. Latimer!
Prepare to greet out clientele
Our meeting is imminent
Our having just rung the dinner bell
It won't be a novelty
We mostly have seen them all before...
Prepare for the usual
You should be aware of what's in store...
We've served them on the Baltic
And the Oceanic,
Olympic and Majestic
And today's the same
There's nothing changed...
Mr. Astor takes his toast dry
Mrs. Straus likes the grouse
With the sauce on the side
And the Wideners love Kidney pie
Bring it hot, if it's not
They'll be fit to be tied
They're accustomed to the best
Of all that money buys
The world of free enterprise
Has given this privilege to the rich...
When they're idle
They're entitled to the luxury
Which we provide
That's forever the source of out pride...
Which is why we're always there
With our especial form of care
For evey hungry millionaire
By now they've all arrived...
MALE 1ST CLASS PASSENGERS
We're sailing aboard the greatest ship
To ever sail the seas
The hull and the keel imperviously
Stronger by degrees
FEMAL 1ST CLASS PASSENGERS
Magnificent crystal chandeliers
Parquet in all the floors
ALL
The ceiling is Jacobean
A decor the world adores
Remarkable ship
Oh what a ship!
Remarkable keel
Oh what a keel!
Remarkable steel
Oh what a ship!
If it could be out in a phrase... it's
"What a remarkable age this is!"
MALE 1ST CLASS PASSENGERS
A fellow's invented see-through film
He calls it "cellophane!"
ALL
Another has built a parachute
For jumping out of an airplane!
Remarkable things flow endlessly
From out the human brain!
Indeed
And what a remarkable age this is!
ETCHES
Keep the Captain's table pristine
Where wer seat the elite whom we happily serve
Here they dine on fine French cuisine
It's the Creme de la Creme's
Exclusive preserve!
It's the pleasure of the leisure class's greatest wits
To be where the Captain sits
When taking their dinner on the sea
Giving deference to their preferences is our greatest art!
We play a part
In a perfectly worling machine
You should ever be aware
This is a privilege great and rare
A special burden that we bear
In our respective lives!
MILLIONAIRES
Remarkable! U.S. Steel
Is splitting shares a five to four!
Monopoly makes the industry
Far better than before!
MILLIONAIRES WIVES
Attending the coronation of
King George the Fifth was grand
ETCHES
And afterwards it's off to Monaco
To frolic in the sand
ALL
Remarkable talk
Oh what a talk!
Remarkable times
Oh what a time!
Remarkable world
Oh what a world!
So much to surprise and amaze...
And...
MILLIONIARES & WIVES
What a remarkable time
What a remarkable world
What a remarkable age...
ETCHES & STAFF
The hull and the keel
Impervious
Magnificent crystal
Chandeliers
A fellow's invented see-
Through film
And what a remarkable
Age...
ALL
This...
Is!
11. THE PROPOSAL/THE NIGHT WAS ALIVE
BARRETT
I'll be coming back to you, Darlene
Back to your dark eyes and hair
Marry me when I return, Darlene
And until that day, my love, take care
Be thee well
May the lord who watches all watch over thee
May God's heaven be you blanket as you softly sleep
Marry me
When you're fin'ly in my arms you'll plainly see
This devoted sailor's heart and soul
Are yours to keep!
BRIDE
Yours-to-keep...
Every day from G-M-O-M
"Good morning, old man"
To G-N-O-M
"Good night, old man"
My telegraph sends its messages to ships at sea
Sending out its
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit...
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit...
I was young and shy, detached and sad
Spent my days indoors, a home-bound lad
Hardly spoke, few friends
I kept myself to myself
Quite alone
Then I found Marconi's Telegraph
It couls span the planrt's width by half
Fifty yards, two thousand miles
The same!
Touch the spark...sound the tone
And the night was alive
With a thousand voices
Fighting to be heard
And each and every one of them
Connected to me...
And my life cam alive
With a thousand voices
Tapping out each word
Like a thousand people
Joined with a single heartbeat
Tapping out our Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit
Dit dit-dah-dit dah
Everywhere...
BARRETT
Marry me BRIDE
It's alive with a thousand
May the lord who Voices
Watches all
Watch over thee And every one of them
Connected to me
Marry me So alive with a thousand
Voices
May God's heaven be
Your blanket
As you sleep Those people
Joined with a single
Heartbeat
Tapping out our Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit
Marry me...
Dit dit-dah-dit dah-dit
Marry me...
Dit dit-dah-dit da
BARRETT
Signed "Fred."
12. HYMN/THE LATEST RAG
PASSENGERS
God lift me up in mighty waters
Keep my eyes on things above
Rightteousness, divine atonement
Peace and everlasting love...
HARTLEY & TWO MAN ENSEMBLE
Ladies and gentlemen-
Everyone up and out
Follow the band and shout:
"Isn't this a lovely day?"(Yes!)
Watching all the ladies in Parisian fashions
On display
BAND
Young Mister Hartley
Is playing quite smartly
In rhythm that could never lag
1ST CLASS PASSENGERS
It's a musical treat
To hear a band with a beat
Performing their latest rag!
HARTLEY
How do you do, my friends?
So good to see you once more!
How long since we first met?
Has it been three days or four?
It seems like so much longer
Than a little weekend jag
HARTLEY & BAND
On the ship, by ourselves
On this glorious afternoon
Doing the lastest rag!
HARTLEY
I love the cool of the breeze
Feel the rhythm of the song in your knees
Promenading along at your ease
Like a feather in the air
HARTLEY & BAND
It that a hint of a chill?
When you're dancing out of doors it's a thrill
Keeps you hardy and healthier still
Take a partner if you dare
Everyone is bursting with emotion
Dancing as we cross the mighty ocean
Moing to then rythm of
The latest rag!
ALL
Come on and
MEN & BAND HARTLEY & WOMEN
Dance with me please Dance
Feel the rhythm
Of the song in your knees The latest rag
Promenading along
At your ease Ragtime
Like a feather in the air! Now!
It that a
Hint of a chill? Dance
When you're dancing
Out of doors The latest rag
It's a thrill
Keeps you hardy and
Healthier still Ragtime
Take a partner if you dare...
HARTLEY & BAND
Out on the well-deck
Ship's personnel deck
Feel all the ocean spray
BAND
Get yourself upon
HARTLEY & BAND
The upper hotel deck
Oh what a swell deck!
Great for your dejeuner
BAND
Turn the corner on
HARTLEY & BAND PASSENGERS
The port parallel deck Port...
It's la plus belle deck
All of the rest passe
ALL
Now the band is betting
The ragtime setting
Will take you away...
ALL
Everyone up and out!
Nobody lag about
Let your darker spirits climb!
Strolling with the orchestra beside you
Playing four-four time
HARTLEY & BAND MEMBER
We've got a fellow
Who's better on the cello
Than any other ship can brag
ALL
So take your gile by the hand
And lend an ear to the band
And do today's latest rag!
Come dancing!
HARTLEY, BAND & BYSTANDERS DANCERS
Out on the well-deck Out
Ship's personnel deck
Feel all the ocean spray
BAND
Get yourself upon
HARTLEY, BAND & BYSTANDERS DANCERS
The upper hotel deck Out
Oh what a swell deck!
Kick all your cares away
BAND
Turn the corner on
HARTLEY, BAND & BYSTANDERS DANCERS
The port parallel deck Out
Great demoiselle deck!
Watch all the girls sashay
ALL
How the ragtime music
The ragtime music
Will take you away!
ALL DANCERS
Out on the well-deck Dance with me please
Ship's personnel deck Feel the rhytm of the
Feel all the ocean spray Song in your knees
Promenading along
The upper hotel deck At your ease
Oh what a swell deck! Like a feather in the air
Kick all your troubles away Is that
The port parallel deck A hint of a chill?
It's la plus belle deck! When you're dancing
Out of doors
All of the rest, passe It's a thrill!
Keeps you hardy
Great demoiselle deck And healthier still
Watch all the girls Take a partner if you
Sashay! Dare!
Everyone is bursting with emotion
Dancing as we cross the mighty ocean
Hasn't it been absolutely great to dance
The latest rag!
13. I HAVE DANCED
ALICE BEANE
I have danced with the first class, Edgar
It was oh, such a dream come true!
EDGAR BEANE
That class isn't for our kind, Alice...
ALICE BEANE
That won't do!
There are hotels on islands, Edgar!
Great resorts on a sandy beach...
EDGAR BEANE
That's a world that's beyond our income
And our reach...
ALICE BEANE
Please don't tell me never
I'll want this forever...ever...
There's a new world around us, Edgar
EDGAR BEANE
Won't you ever give up that view?
ALICE BEANE
I want more than we've got now, Edgar
Why don't you?
TITANIC PAGE II
