Original Broadway Cast - Titanic: A New Musical

Artist:

Original Cast

UPC:

090266883424

Description:

Principal cast includes: John Cunningham (Capt. E.J. Smith); David Costabile (1st Officer William Murdoch); John Bolton (2nd Officer Charles Lightoller); Matthew Bennett (3rd Officer Herbert J. Pitman); Ted Sperling (Wallace Hartley, Orchestra Leader); David Garrison (J. Bruce Ismay); Michael Cerveris (Thomas Andrews); Larry Keith (Isidor Straus); Alma Cuervo (Ida Straus); William Youmans (J.J. Astor); Lisa Datz (Madeleine Astor); Don Stephenson (Charles Clarke); Judith Blazer (Caroline Neville); Bill Buell (Edgar Beane); Victoria Clark (Alice Beane); Jennifer Piech (Kate McGowan); Theresa McCarthy (Kate Murphey); Erin Hill (Kate Mullins); Clarke Thorell (Jim Farrell).
Recorded at The Hit Factory`s Studio I, New York, New York on April 27, 1997.
TITANIC: A NEW MUSICAL was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show.
Book writer Peter Stone, in his liner notes to this original Broadway cast recording of Titanic, explains the approach that he and composer/lyricist Maury Yeston took to the story of the doomed ocean liner. "[S]he will not," he writes of the ship, "serve as merely the background against which fictional, melodramatic narratives are recounted. The central character of our Titanic is the Titanic herself." To say that the ship is the central character is not to say that there are no other characters, of course. In fact, there are 40 cast members. The show won all five of the Tony Awards for which it was nominated, among them best musical and best score, and that score consists mostly of choral numbers that are, not surprisingly, full of hope and enthusiasm in the first act (pre-iceberg) and full of dread and melancholy in the relatively brief second. (That`s right, about two-thirds of the music on the disc comes before the ship starts going down.) There are a few of those melodramatic narratives Stone abhors, but the writers are much more interested in creating a broad panorama and providing a sociological history lesson: they see the sinking of the ship representing the collapse of class distinctions in the early 20th century. Yeston`s music contains smatterings of Gilbert & Sullivan, ragtime, and pop, and for the most part, he is interested in massed voices, which may make this score a boon to high-school choruses everywhere. ~ William Ruhlmann

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Overture / Prologue: In Every Age
2. How Did They Build the Titanic?
3. There She Is / Loading Inventory / The Largest Moving Object
4. I Must Get on That Ship
5. 1st Class Roster, The
6. Godspeed Titanic
7. Barrett`s Song
8. To Be a Captain
9. Lady`s Maid
10. What a Remarkable Age This Is!
11. The Proposal / The Night Was Alive
12. Hymn / Doing The Latest Rag
13. I Have Danced
14. No Moon
15. Autumn / Finale
16. Dressed in Your Pyjamas in the Grand Salon
17. Blame, The
18. To the Lifeboats: Getting In The Lifeboat / I Must Get On That Ship (Reprise) / Lady`s Maid / The Proposal / The Night Was Alive
19. We`ll Meet Tomorrow
20. Still
21. To Be a Captain
22. Mr. Andrews` Vision
23. Epilogue: In Every Age / Finale

Album Information

Release Date:

07/01/1997

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Pop Vocal

Subgenre:

Show Vocals

Label:

RCA Victor

Producer:

Tommy Krasker; Maury Yeston

Catalog Number:

68834

Original Release Year:

1997

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

DDD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

73 : 21

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