Titanic - Ensemble Version

Act I

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 First 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!").

Caroline, raised in an upper-class family, is traveling Second Class with her new husband Charles, a greengrocer. Together, they dream of making a new start in the States (“I Give You My Hand”).

Barrett finds his way to the Telegraph Room, where he dictates a proposal of marriage to his sweetheart back home ("The Proposal") in a telegram transmitted by Harold Bride, a young telegraph operator smitten with the possibilities of the new radio technology ("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"), an 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, which ends Act One.

Act II

The suddenly awakened First and Second Class passengers ("Wake Up, Wake Up!") are assembled in the Grand Salon ("Dressed In Your Pyjamas In The Grand Salon") for life-belt instruction by Chief Steward Etches, before being sent up to the Boat Deck to board the lifeboats. In the Telegraph Room, Captain Smith, Mr. Andrews and Mr. Ismay, the owner, argue over who is responsible for the disaster ("The Blame") while Mr. Bride tirelessly sends out the S.O.S.

Up on the Boat Deck, the male passengers are separated from their families ("To the Lifeboats"), and all express hopes of being reunited ("We'll Meet Tomorrow") as the final boat is lowered. Isidor Straus (the owner of Macy’s) and his wife Ida remain behind together, as she refuses to leave his side after 40 years of marriage ("Still") and Mr. Etches utters a prayer ("To Be a Captain - Reprise"). In the abandoned Smoking Room, Thomas Andrews desperately redesigns his ship to correct its fatal flaws until the futility of his actions leads him to predict, in horrifying detail, the end of Titanic just as she begins her now-inevitable descent ("Mr. Andrews’ Vision").

In an Epilogue, the survivors picked up by the Carpathia numbly retell what had once been Mr. Andrews’ dream ("In Every Age - Reprise"). The living are joined by their lost loved ones in a tableau recapturing the optimistic spirit of the Ocean Dock on sailing day ("Finale").

—Peter Stone

14 Men

Thomas Andrews, Designer and Builder
Barrett, Stoker / as Guggenheim, 1st Class Passenger / as 3rd Class Passenger (L.M.)
Bride, Telegrapher /as John Thayer, 1st Class Passenger / as 3rd Class Passenger (2nd Man in L.M.) / as Band Leader Wallace Hartley
Fleet, Lookout / as George Widener, 1st Class Passenger / as Carlson / as Stoker / as 3rd Class Passenger (L.M.) / as DaMico (L.R.)
Captain E. J. Smith
J. Bruce Ismay, Owner
Charles Clarke / as Steward (Launching) / as 2nd Class Passenger /as 1st Class Passenger   (L.R.)
Edgar Beane / as Officer Boxhall / as 2nd Class Passenger / as 3rd Class Passenger (L.M.)
Isidor Strauss, 1st Class Passenger / as Officer Hitchens / as 3rd Class Passenger (L.M.)
Jim Farrell, 3rd Class Passenger / as Steward (Launching) / as Mr. Bell / as Latimer / as 1st Class Passenger (L.R.)
Henry Etches, Senior 1st Class Steward / as Officer Pitman
First Officer Murdoch/ Bass Player
Officer Lightoller / as J. J. Astor, 1st Class Passenger / as 3rd Class Passenger (L.M.)
Bellboy / as Waiter twice (1st and 3rd Class) / as Stoker

6 Women

Alice Beane, 2nd Class Passenger / as 3rd Class Passenger (L.M.)
Caroline Neville, 2nd Class Passenger / as Stewardess / as Mme. Aubert
Kate McGowan, 3rd Class Passenger / as Stewardess / as Charlotte Drake Cardoza, 1st Class Passenger
Kate Murphey, 3rd Class Passenger / as Stewardess / as Mrs. Widener, 1st Class Passenger / as DaMico (L.R.)
Kate Mullins / as Stewardess / as Madeleine Astor, 1st Class Passenger
Ida Strauss, 1st Class Passenger / as 3rd Class Passenger (R.A.)

Abbreviations:
R.A. = Remarkable Age
L.M. = Lady’s Maid
L.R. = Doing The Latest Rag