General Consensus of the Titanic Musical? — Page 2

I adore it!

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Oh, I didn't take the "buzzkill" comment personally, I promise!

And actually, I don't know that I've felt that adamantly in a negative way about a show before. So you're right pointing it out. Maybe my expectations were too high. I remember going in knowing I wasn't going to see a "film on stage." I can't even remember if I'd seen the Cameron movie yet or not, but I'd seen other films about Titanic. And I was a bit obsessed with the subject for a while, watching many historical documentaries about it, and reading a lot of books on the subject. I was well-informed going into the theatre. Maybe that had something to do with it. I'm not sure.

I do remember that I didn't question their research. They did seem to get everything right (for the most part). No issues there. I was seriously let down with the play from a dramatic and musical POV, though. I would have rather sat through a (very badly done) lecture on the subject. It felt that dull.

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To me, it was a deeply flawed musical with some astonishingly beautiful moments. I preferred the first act to the second, and parts of the book felt clunky to me, but there's some stunning music, and the cast of the Broadway production was perfection. Brian D'Arcy James and Victoria Clark in particular. I'd LOVE to see it done again. Ditto The Life and Steel Pier from that year. It was quite a year for deeply flawed shows with incredibly wonderful aspects.

I saw it once on Broadway and remember really disliking it, I don't know why. I just thought it was really boring, though I was a lot younger at the time. I have listened to the score since then and now I think it's great! I saw the concert version that was staged last year and I really loved it. I wish I could see a full production of it now, as I would appreciate it so much more than I did in 1998.

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I find the Maury Yesten to have some of the best opening of shows.... His Grand Hotel was hot and Titanics opening was brilliant.. the choral "god speed titanic" kills me everytime I hear it.

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I didn't see it on Broadway, but I saw it last year at the Muny here in St. Louis and I loved it. I bought the cast album, and I love the score. I did think there were perhaps one too many subplots. There are some characters who are not given very much to do, but the music is beautiful and I thought it was a much better treatment of the story than the James Cameron film.

The Tonys helped too. Going in it was not considered the frontrunner.

The Life had 12 Tony nominations, and how won the Outer Critics and Drama Desk awards for Best Musical.

Steel Pier had 11 nominations.

Titanic had only 5 nominations (Musical, Book, Score, Scenic Design and Orchestrations).

And then it won all 5.