The Proposal / The Night Was Alive - Titanic the Musical

From the OBC Press Wheels
Frederick Barrett - Brian d'Arcy James
Harold Bride - Martin Moran

[@cards0486]

I saw Brian as Fred on Broadway...of course, at the time nobody knew who he was. Now its fun to know I saw him so early in his Broadway career. It was a great show.

[@kimmyswimmy]

awwww. i love this song. its one that i listen to all the time. love brian d'arcy james' voice. so perfect.

[@sillybitty]

i agree. i saw it front row center on broadway 1997 i think it was. one of the best performances i've ever seen from an entire cast (and memorable!). so sad that many people don't give this musical a chance.

[@emilehenen97]

Most beautiful love song. It will live in your mind.

[@ThePinkPixie3]

"May God's Heaven be your blanket as you sleep."

[@misswaitressful]

flawless song. absolutely flawless.

[@afterallthistime]

Oh my goodness! Professional footage of this! Thanks for uploading. This is my favorite song from the show.

[@crystalheartsdance]

We did this show my senior year of high school and it was amazing. We had great set design and amazing singers.

[@opheliac101]

So beautiful... thanks so much for uploading this!!

[@charliedelta6]

Lol. I've seen this show done by 10 to 13 year olds, with the Strauss's done damn well perfectly.

[@Dianaemanuel]

A real shame this show never had a professional London production. But here in the UK most of the new shows are juke box musicals - just a string of pop hits from someone's back catalogue strung together with some kind of plot knocked together.

[@arsalansattari563]

It did... Southwark Playhouse! It won lots of awards at the Offies?!

[@charliedelta6]

@charliedelta6 So don't make comments about high school casts not being able to do it. It's all to do with acting talent.

[@robsryan]

Well done you guys! I can only occasionally keep listening to a (respectfully) non professional production, particularly of Titanic. (I think there are two masterpieces from Maury Yeston, Nine and Titanic.) I don't have the patients that I should for it. What can I say? I'm old-er, a theater professional, and I've seen it all. Your version is far superior to another productions here on KZbin, on the college level. I'm not talking about production values and art direction, my opinion is based strictly on the vocals and the acting as presented. I will say that I'm bummed that your clips are not cleaner/clearer, and have much better audio. Oh well, you know it's true. Do you have a "Ladies Maid and/or opening which includes "Sail on ..."? Thanks for sharing!

[@asolanara]

This show is amazing, but is very hard to pull off well because of all the interpersonal communication that is required. This show is next to impossible for a complete high school cast. Not dissing any high school performances but from being in this show myself and seeing others the experiences required, the Straus's for example, a high schooler can't make that connection because they have yet to understand it

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

I don't get some parts of this show. Barret survived the sinking as did Etches, but both die in the play. Then you have all of the Third Class characters surviving. Kate 1 2 3 and Jim. And what about Murdoch? He died bravely trying to rig one of the lifeboats to the davit for launch (only 16 were launched before she went down, not the twenty claimed in the play). Murdoch was also the one who tried to pack as many people into the lifeboats as possible, regardless of age, gender or class while Lightholler only allowed the women and children. But in the play he seems like an inept officer. And they had Andrews have a nervous brakedown while in reality he kept it together, throwing anything he could find that would float overboard for the people in the water (ironically, it would have been better if he hadn't. Drowning is a far more merciful death than exposure).

[@gracebihun2673]

+Joshua Plotkin the issue with Barrett's death is that you never see him among the living or the dead in the finale so it is up to the viewers interpretation if he died or not. In reality there was two men named Fredrick Barrett so the character of Barrett in the show was designed to represent both the living and dead man. I believe the reason why they wrote Andrews having the nervous breakdown is to describe the sinking and the chaos it brought since they didn't touch on it much in the show while it was sinking..

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

then they should have had Smith sing the song because he did have a nervous breakdown. Like Murdoch, Andrews died trying to save as many people as possible. Murdoch while trying to ready the last lifeboat (the davits are still in the receiving position which means the boat deck went down before they could finish), Andrews finding anything that could float and throwing it to the people in the water. they died heroes. here they die as nervous wrecks. And Etches survived as well. he made it to the overturned lifeboat with Barret and Lightholler. the last people to leave Titanic and live.

[@JohnDoe-gk7ok]

Joshua Plotkin The lyrics entail knowledge of how the ship is built and knowing exactly what will happen before it sinks. The captain can steer the ship, but he certainly doesn’t know the blueprints as sung at the beginning of Andrews’s Vision. I don’t think Andrews in the show had a nervous breakdown. I think he was soliloquizing everybody’s predicament, which served to bring the show full circle, after it spent two hours showing the differences between the classes. Maybe you could interpret that Andrews did all the things you mentioned, but only after a few minutes of reflection on how elitism ultimately cost so many people their lives.