Original Broadway Cast - Titanic: A New Musical

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Overture / Prologue: In Every Age
What A Remarkable Age This Is!
Proposal, The / Night Was Alive, The
Hymn / Doing The Latest Rag
I Have Danced
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Original Broadway Cast - Titanic: A New Musical

Artist:: Original Cast

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