Titanic Question

[J.J.]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 3:33pm

I'm bored out of my mind at work...and so I'm thinking of all the theater questions I wanted to find the answer to...

Titanic, one of my favs - it's always bothered my that they changed their design during previews to the piece of floating wreckage (with Titanic on the..whatever it was). Why did they replace the original - of a boat made out of little bars, with the word Titanic cleverly placed in the ship? Any ideas...?

Thanks!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 3:39pm

Well, first off the later logo is not a piece of floating wreckage it is a traveling sticker that you see on suitcases and so forth with the word "TITANIC" printed on it.

As for changing it, I'm sure it just came about at a design meeting to change it, or perhaps the original was just being used until the final design was brought in by Doug Johnson, who knows, really... Updated On: 8/6/04 at 03:39 PM

[Jon]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 4:03pm

In the first logo, I think the "little bars" were supposed to be lights in the windows on the side of the ship.

They didn't change it in previews - I saw the show a few weeks after opening, and my Playbill had the first logo.

[MusicMan]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:15pm

Since the design of that show was one of the cheap-ass worst in recent memory, why discuss it at all?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:18pm

"Since the design of that show was one of the cheap-ass worst in recent memory, why discuss it at all?"

Not just the design, the whole concept, script, music, lyrics and casting. Phew!!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:39pm

hey now, Peter Stone was a genious.

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 11:46pm

I dident see it. What was so bad about it?

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:52am

And no one beats Brian D'Arcy James.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 12:54am

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Brian D'Arcy James (in a very heterosexual way of course ) He is the only reason why I bought the TITANIC recording and I only listen to the songs he is in. What other recordings is he in besides TITANIC and WILD PARTY (Great cd by the way)?

[POLisPOL]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:01am

from Brian D'Arcy James I have: Floyd Collins, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens the concert (I really love this cd!), Sweet Smell of Success.
He's also in the studio cast of Kelly and the studio cast of Far From the Madding Crowd (apart of course of wild party and titanic)

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:03am

thanks very much

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 2:25am

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS is awesome. Well, the music anyway. I guess the book was crap...

[Jon]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 8:05am

Agreed - Darcy James is the best thing in Titanic.

His singing is phenomenal in Sweet Smell as well. Another show doomed by weak direction and a lousy script. It doesn't come close to the original film.

Sweet Smell trivia: Susan Harrison, the actres who played Susan in the film, is the mother of Darva Conger, the "winner" of the original "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire".

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 10:02am

Titanic had one of the most gorgeous scores on Broadway in the last 20 years. I didn't like the first design. The second was far better. Sweet Smell had maybe 3-4 decent songs, but that was all. Not a good show.