14. NO MOON
FLEET
No moon
No wind
Nothing to spy things by
No wave
No swell
No line where sea meets sky
Stillness
Darkness
Can't see a thing, says I
No reflection
Not a shadow
Not a glint of light
Meets the eye...
And we go sailing
Sailing
Ever westward on the sea
We go sailing
Sailing
Ever on
Go we...
IDA STRAUS
It's a beautiful night, Mr. Straus
Even though there's no moon
Look at all the stars
Can you find the big dipper?
ISIDOR STRAUS
The big dipper? I can't even find our own stateroom.
Every time I go out for a walk, finding my way back is
an adventure.
IDA STRAUS
Maybe you drop some bread crumbs
ISIDOR STRAUS
Can you feel how cold it's getting, Mrs. Straus?
All in the past couple of hours
Would you like me to get your fur stole?
IDA STRAUS
What, and maybe never see you again?
No thank you, I'd rather freeze
JIM FARRELL
Are you cold, then, Katie?
KATE MCGOWAN
Not now that you've got your arm around me...
JIM FARRELL
But I don't-
Oh, you're a funny one, Kate Mcgowan.
KATE MCGOWAN
Funny? T'anks very much.
JIM FARRELL
Becasue you come right out with what you want.
KATE MCGOWAN
And you find that funny, do you?
What kind of girl do you think I am?
You think I need to be told what I want?
Life's too short for that, me boy-o
CAPT. SMITH
The weather's quite changed, Mr. Lightoller
LIGHTOLLER
Yes, Sir, it's turned very cold
Only one point above freezing
MURDOCH
Ocean temperature's down to thirty-one degrees, Captain
CAPT. SMITH
Warn the carpenter to check our supply of fresh water,
Mr. Murdoch
-and tell the engine room to watch the steam winches.
MURDOCH
Aye, aye, sir
CAPT. SMITH
There's not much wind, is there?
LIGHTOLLE
No, Sir. It appears to be a flat calm.
FLEET SMITH,LIGHTOLLER,MURDOCH
...And we go sailing See how calm it is
Sailing
Smooth as polished glass
Ah, the open sea
Ever westward
On the sea
Feel the bite in the air
...We go sailing
Sailing Ah, the open sea
Smooth as polished glass
Ever on
Go we...
CAROLINE NEVILLE
Charles, think!
In two days, America!
What's the first thing your going to do when we get there, darling?
After Marrying me, of course-
CHARLES CLARKE
Apply to the sports desk of an important New York newspaper.
I'm sure that they can use a journalist with my experience.
CAROLINE NEVILLE
Oh, darling, you're sure to be a success!
CHARLES CLARKE
Let us both hope so...
BOTH
That's why we're going there...
MRS. CARDOZA
Good evening, gentlemen.
THE MAJOR
Madam, this happens to bo the Smoke Room!
MRS. CARDOZA
So I see.
J.J. ASTOR
Women are never permitted in the 1st calss Smoke Room, madam.
MRS. CARDOZA
Don't look so shocked, gentlemen. There's a new world out there.
THE MAJOR
There's a new world out where?
MRS. CARDOZA
Mr. Hartley, that's a new melody- what's it called?
HARTLEY
"Autumn," m'am.
15. AUTUMN
HARTLEY
Autumn
Shall we all meet in the Autumn?
Golden and glowing by Autumn
Shae we still be best of friends?
Best of friends...
All through each languorous season
We ebb and flow
Romance, defying all reason
Will come, then go
Still, perhaps this Autumn
Love won't retreat in the Autumn
ALl that we have won't be past
...Won't be past
Let breezes blow
And turn cold
As we continue growing old
This Autumn
Love newly found
May yet last
MRS. CARDOZA
So what do you say, gentlemen? I happen to play an excellent
game of auction bridge. May I join you?
THE MAJOR
Where's your sense of occasion, madam?
I understand you've just lost your husband.
MRS. CARDOZA
Yes. But not at cards.
FLEET
Ahead we plow
Into the darkening night
Can't see the bow
How then the search
With only starlight?...
FLEET & PERSONNEL PASSENGERS
No moon Autumn
No wind Shall we all meet in the
Nothing to spy things Autumn?
By Golden and glowing, by
No wave Autumn
No swell Shall we still be best of friends
No line where sea Best of friends?
Meets sky Best of friends...No wind
FLEET, PERSONNEL, PASSENGERS
Stillness, darkness
Can't see a thing, says I
No reflection
Not a shadow
Not a glint of light
Meets the eye
PASSENGERS FLEET, PERSONNEL
And we go sailing
See how calm it is
Sailing
Smooth as polished glass
Ever westward
Ah, the open sea On the sea, we go...
Feel the bite in the air
Sailing
Ah, the open sea
Sailing
Smooth as polished glass
ALL
Ever on go we...
FLEET
No moon
No wind...
FLEET & PASSENGERS
No moon
No wind
FLEET & PASSENGERS BRIDE
No moon The night was alive
No wind With a thousand voices...
No moon Night was alive
No wind With a thousand voices
BARRETT
No moon The screws are
Turning
No wind At eighty-one
No moon The screws are turning
Turning
No wind At eighty-one
FLEET&
PASSENGERS BRIDE BARRETT ANDREWS
No moon The night The screws At once a poem
Was alive Were turning And the
Perfection
No wind With a At eighty-one Of physical
Thousand Engineering
Voices The screws
No moon Were turning
No wind At eighty-one
ALL
No moon
No wind
FLEET
Dear mother of God-
Iceberg right ahead!
End of Act I
16. DRESSED IN YOU PYJAMAS IN THE GRAND SALON
1ST CLASS PASSENGERS
Strange and quite disorienting being here...
Recently awakened from a dream...
How the lights burn,
Every crystal bright as a star!
Dressed in you pyjamas in the Grand salon,
Looks to be bizarre in the extreme...
Things could improve if the steward opens the bar!
Oh...it's a memory I'll want to keep
Now..I would like to go
Back to sleep...
Dressed in your pyjamas in the grand salon
Wondering if things are what they seem
Can you be sure? Do you ever
Know where you are?
ETCHES
Mr. Astor please, your life-belt
Mr. Guggenheim, please put it on now...
Captain's orders
Ladies and gentlemen, wear your life-belts!
Mrs. Widener, if you would m'am
Mr. Thayer, we must insist now
It's a mere formality
There is no cause for concern
ETCHES & STEWARDS
We'll be on our way!
We hardly need stay now...
In a moment or two she'll be right again
Travelling west!
JOHN THAYER
See here, Mr. Etches, I demand to know exactly what's happening!
ETCHES
The latest word, sir, seems to be that she's damaged one
of the wing propellers and we could be delayed for an entire
day, sir.
THAYER
I don't like the way this sounds...
BANJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
Not a bit, not a bit, not a little bit...
THAYER
We spent eighteen hundred pounds
GUGGENHEIM
Not a bit, not a bit, not a little bit...
GUGGENHEIM & THAYER
This is not the sort of voayage we paid for!
I demand to know what the ship is delayed for!
Right now!
1ST CLASS PASSENGERS
How could this have ever come to pass
ETCHES
Christ! Look who's here!
It's the second class!
ALICE BEANE
Everything is gorgeous in the Grand Salon!
Stunningle appointed for the cream
Thousands of bucks
Gets a trip deluxe without par!
PASSENGERS ETCHES & STEWARDS
Dressed in you pyjamas Mr. Astor please,
In the Grand salon Your life-belt
Feels to be bizarre Mr. Guggenheim, please
In the extreme... Put it on now
How the lights burn It's a mere formality
Every crystal bright There is no cause for
As a star Concern
STEWARDS 1ST GROUP 2ND GROUP 3RD GROUP
We'll be on
Our way! Strange and quite
Disorienting We'll be on
Being here! Our way! Strange and
A minor delay Quite disorienting being
Now! Recently
Awakened in a A minor delay Here!
A simple Daze! Now! Recently awakened in a
Precaution! Every light is A simple
Burning Precaution Daze!
A moment of With intensity! Every light is burning with
Rest! Everything A moment of Intensity!
Surrounded by a haze!
We'll be on Rest! We'll be on
Our Our
Way! Strange and quite We'll be on Way!
Quite disorienting Our
We hardly Being here! Way! Strange and
Need Quite disorienting
Stay now Recently We hardly Being here!
Awakened in a Need...
ETCHES
Mr. Guggenheim, please
Upstairs now...
EVERYONE ELSE
Mrs. Widener, if you would Wondering if things
M'am... Are what
They seem...
It's a mere formality Can you be sure?
There is no Do you ever know
Where you
Cause for concern Are?
STEWARDS 1ST GROUP 2ND GROUP 3RD GROUP
We'll be on
Our way! Strange and quite
Disorienting We'll be on
Being here! Our way! Strange and
A minor delay Quite disorienting being
Now! Recently
Awakened in a A minor delay Here!
A simple Daze! Now! Recently awakened in a
Precaution! Every light is A simple
Burning Precaution Daze!
A moment of With intensity! Every light is burning with
Everything A moment of Intensity!
Rest! Everything A moment of Intensity!
Surrounded by a haze!
We'll be on Rest! We'll be on
Our Our
Way! Strange and We'll be on Way!
Quite disorienting Our
We hardly Being here! Way! Strange and
Need Quite disorienting
Stay recently We hardly Being here!
Awakened in a Need...
Now Daze Stay now! Recently awakened in a
Any minute now! Daze
Any minute!
Any minute Any minute
Now Now! Any minute!
Any minute Any minute
Now! Now!
ALL
We'll be on our way!
We'll be on our way!
We'll be on our way!
our way!
Our way!
17. THE BLAME
ISMAY
Surly something can be done to help us...
ANDREWS
Thousands on board
Trusting and warm
Roused from their sleep
Sent up above
Unsinkable ship
What she now?
What is she now?
ISMAY
Possibly she won't go down
Possibly she'll stay afloat
Possibly all this could come to an end
On a positive note...
ANDREWS
Not unless the ship could fly
Not unless we all sprout wings!
Honestly, sir, I have built her from scratch
And I know certain things!
ISMAY
If you know so much
Why didn't you know to prevent this!
What's to become of us all,
Now that providence sent this!
This is your work, Mr. Andrews!
You have done us in!
Where's her leakproof bulkheads?
Where's her double skin?
That's your job!
If someone must take the blame
It is you!
You!...
CAPT. SMITH
Innocent folk
Held in our care
Living their lives
Dreaming their dreams
Dreaming their dreams...
ISMAY
Possible a ship will come
Possibly we'll all be saved...
ANDREWS
Dammit, sir, listen!
We're hemorrhaging fast!
It's our hull that's been staved!
ISMAY
Couldn't you design it right?
Whoever heard of steel that rips?
ANDREWS
Ismay, I'm just in the business of building
It's God who sinks ships!...
ISMAY
There stands the Captain
Who sailed us straight into disaster!
ANDREWS
Oh, now it's the Captain's turn!
Pray, who urged him to go faster?...
Well, then, thank you, Mr. Ismay
For your contribution!
Now please pray for some
Miraculous solution!
Your timing is perfect!
Now help us, please
If you can!
CAPT. SMITH
Who called for speed and to break every record!
Who had to keep all the millionaires happy!
ISMAY
How dare you, Smith!
I will not stand here indicted!
Who ignored warnings of icebergs when sighted?
Who, sir, refused to extend up the bulheads?!
ANDREWS
You, sir! To give the first class
Bigger staterooms!
CAPT. SMITH
And who undermined the postion of Captain?
ISMAY
And who took a course too far north for the
Season?
CAPT. SMITH
And who kept insisting
We land ever sooner?...
ISMAY
And who should have posted ANDREWS
More lookouts in darkness?! And who had to have both
The largest and fastest?...
Who did?!
CAPT. SMITH
Who did it?! Who did it?!
ISMAY
Who did it?! Who did it?!
ALL THREE
Who did it?!
Who did it?!
ANDREWS
Possible the lord will act...
CAPT. SMITH
Possible He will provide...
ALL THREE
And indicate how
Our unthinkable fate
Can be somehow denied
Somehow denied...
ISMAY(To Andrews)
Your work
No one else's...
ANDREWS
My doing
No one else's...
CAPT. SMITH
There's only one Captain
And I was in charge...
This is my ship
No one else's...
18. TO THE LIFEBOATS/GETTING IN THE LIFEBOATS
MARION THAYER
You and I are getting in the lifeboat
Father will be stauying here a while
It will be like fishing in the Serpentine
COme along now, let us have a smile...
JOHN THAYER
Go along with Mother to the lifeboat...
MARION THAYER
John...
JOHN THAYER
Don't even say it
I'll be fine...
I'll collect you both tomorrow morning
You and this beloved sone of mine
IMUST GET ON THAT SHIP(Reprise)
MURDOCH & LIGHTOLLER(To Ida Straus)
Madam, step this way into the lifeboat
LIGHTOLLER
Mr. Straus, by all means take a place...
ISIDOR STRAUS
No. I will not go before the younger men
Go, Ida- you must go now-
IDA STRAUS
For what? To live without you? Absolutely not!
Where you go I go!
MURDOCH, LIGHTOLLER & STEWARD
You must in JOHN JACOB ASTOR
Please step this way... Maddie, dear, you must
Get in the lifeboat
There is no time ALICE BEANE
Please don't delay Edgar, look I'm next
To Mrs. Astor
This is the last to leave
It must be lowered now...
MURDOCH, LIGHTOLLER,
STEWARD & BELLBOY
You must get in GEORGE WIDENER
Please step this way Eleanor you must
Get in the lifeboat
There is no time CHARLES CLARKE
Please don't delay Caroline, come quick, here
Is a lifeboat
This is the last to leave ALL PASSENGERS
Little time remaining,
Final lifeboat
It must be lowered now...
LADY'S MAID(Reprise)
JIM FARRELL
There's gotta be a place in that boat, Kate- take it, for God's sake
KATE MCGOWAN
Jim Farrell! I don't want to be a widow before I'm a bride!
JIM FARRELL
You're going to be a lady's maid!
Lady's maid in America!
THE PROPOSAL/THE NIGHT WAS ALIVE(Reprise)
CANONS
BARRETT BRIDE COMPANY
Be thee well It's alive with Hurry now we must
May the Lord who A thousand Get in the lifeboat!
Watches all Voices,
Watch over thee The night Hurry now we're
May God's heaven be Is alive Running out of time!
Your blanket With a thousand (repeat)
As you softly sleep Voices(repeat)
Be thee well
When you're finally in ANDREWS
My arms you'll plainly see My work
This devoted sailor's heart No one else's
And soul are yours to keep...
Yours to keep!
SHIPS OFFICERS
Lower away!!!
COMPANY
Hurry now! There isn't any time!
19. WE'LL MEET TOMORROW
COMPANY
We'll meet tomorrow
We will find a path
And reach tomorrow.
Past this day of wrath
We'll be together once again
Cling to your hope and prayers till then...
BARRETT
I'll hold thee closely
As I say goodbye
And keep your image
In my memory's eye
And all this love of ours will soar
Come dawn or danger
We'll meet tomorrow
And have each other evermore
COMPANY
Give us tomorrow
And another hour
Let our reunion
Come within our power...
Grant one more chance
To make a start
That we may live for
As we part...
CHARLES CLARKE
COme say you love me
As I kiss your eyes
Let one brief moment
Make eternal ties...
COMPANY
If tomorrow is not in store
Let this embracing
Replace forever
Keep us together
Evermore.
20. STILL
ISIDOR STRAUS
Still
The way I love you
Still
Lives in my heart
IDA STRAUS
After all of the years
We've been together
BOTH
Holding our love
Still...
ISIDOR STRAUS
The way you move me
Still
Feels as it did
When you first became mine
Whispered the words
BOTH
"I will"...
I loved you then
And I love you
Still
IDA STRAUS
No one else could play your role
Forever know my mind
ISIDOR STRAUS
True companion of my soul
I won't turn from
You I learn from
Still...
BOTH
Through fortune's changes
Still
Always we've been
ISIDOR STRAUS
That the promise we made...
BOTH
Kept us as one
And will!
I loved you then...
And I love you...
Still!
21. TO BE A CAPTAIN(reprise)
ETCHES
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.
22. MR. ANDREWS' VISION
ANDREWS
Just a cursory look at the blueprints here
Shows the weaknesses that we have missed
How the water poured in
A three-hundred-foot gash
And caused the bow to flood and to list
And then it filled to the top
Our separate watertight compartments
And began to overflow...
Because the walls in-between the compartments
Are too low!
She's only sinking because these bulkheads
Stop a deck too low!
But here's a thought! Take the line...
And extend up the walls to the brink...
It's just a small redesing...
But when it's done then i know she can't sink!
Like this!... Like this!...
Like this!... Like this!...
The ship will start to plunge beneath the surface
The water lapping at our feet
Down sinks the bow, up flies the stern
To the sky...
The panicked people in retreat
A thousand strong, they'll climb up
Toward the aft deck
They'll cling there desperately
Like bees to a hive!
There they'll hold fast
Doomed to the last
Lost and abandoned and all still alive
A few of them will hang there
From the railings
As, one by one, they'll drop away!
More than two-hundred-fifty feet
They will fall
And after that, I cannot say
I will not say...
The rest, in swarms, will overrun the boat deck
They'll lose all sense of right and wrong
It will be "Eevery man from himself", all right!
The weak thrown in with the strong!
First class, and third, and second
Will mean nothing!
And sheer humanity alone will prevail
One single class
Brute, harsh and crass
That's what will come of the world that set sail
Autumn...
Shall we all meet in the Autumn?...
Shall we all meet in the Autumn?...
23. IN EVERY AGE(reprise)/FINALE
BRIDE
Fare thee well
May the Lord who watches all
Watch over thee
May God's heaven be your blanket
As you softly sleep...
ALL SURVIVORS
Softly sleep...
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...
COMPANY
Our task was to dream upon
And then create
A floating city!
OFFSTAGE VOICES
Floating city!...
COMPANY
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...
Sail on, sail on
Great ship Titanic!
Cross the open sea
Pray the journey's sound
Till your port be found
Fortune's winds
Sing Godspeed to thee...
Fortune's winds
Sing Godspeed
To thee!
