SYNOPSIS
ACT ONE
Titanic begins ("Prologue") as Thomas Andrews, the architect of the great ship, pores over the blueprints of his design ("In Every Age"). The curtain then rises to reveal the Ocean Dock in Southampton, England, where people are gathering to wonder at and to board the ship on sailing day: first a stoker ("How Did They Build Titanic?"), then additional crewmen ("There She Is"), officers and stevedores ("Loading Inventory"), the owner, the architect and the captain ("The Largest Moving Object"), the Third and Second Class passengers ("I Must Get On That Ship"), and finally the First Class passengers ("The 1st Class Roster"). Now fully boarded, the ship pulls out as the company sings a prayerful farewell ("Godspeed Titanic").
One by one, the dreams and aspirations of key characters are presented: Barrett, the stoker who wanted to get away from the coal mines ("Barrett�s Song"); Murdoch, the ship�s officer contemplating the responsibility of command ("To Be a Captain"); Kate McGowan and the Third Class passengers who yearn for a better life in America ("Lady�s Maid"); Chief steward Etches and the millionaires he serves who exult in the wonders of their world ("What a Remarkable Age This Is!").
Barrett finds his way to the Telegraph Room where he dictates a proposal of marriage to his sweetheart back home in a telegram transmitted by Harold Bride, a young telegraph operator smitten with the possibilities of the new radio technology ("The Proposal/The Night Was Alive").
The next day, April 14, after Sunday morning church service, the First Class attends the shipboard band�s spirited out-of-doors dance-concert ("Hymn/Doing the Latest Rag"), and exclusive event crashed by Second Class passenger Alice Beane, a hardware store owner�s wife who wants more out of life ("I Have Danced"). That evening, as Fleet the lookout scans the horizon ("No Moon") and bandsman Hartley regales the First Class Smoking Room with a new song ("Autumn"), the ship sails inexorably towards her collision.
Will the First Class, Second Class, and Third Class passengers live to see tomorrow? Be sure to catch this terrific show based on the real-life passengers of this doomed ship. Tickets will be going fast! (November 20 - December 17)
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