Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:18pm

In light of the Titanic anniversary this weekend, I was thinking about other musicals that take place on ships. Anything Goes, of course. What other shows?

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:22pm

HMS Pinafore (if you count that as a musical).

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:32pm

The 25th anniversary productions of Les Miz puts the prologue on a prison ship.

Part of "Into the Fire" in The Scarlet Pimpernel?

Big River? No, that's a raft...

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:34pm

Does this one count?

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:34pm

SAIL AWAY

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:34pm

Well, there's Titanic, of course.

Dames at Sea - scenes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - scenes
Moby Dick (sort of?)
The Poseidon Adventure
Rough Crossing
The Pirate Queen ??
Ragtime - scenes
Wonderful Town has sailors, as does On The Town.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:36pm

I've never seen Sugar, but I assume it has the yacht scenes? (eta, I did see the relaunched musical version of Some Like It Hot, and it certainly did)

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:39pm

There's the sinking of the SS Gigantic in Little Me...

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Updated On: 4/13/12 at 02:39 PM

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:40pm

Are you counting boats?

Show Boat?

Beginning of King & I

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:42pm

And there's the scene in THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN that gave her, and the show, the name.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 2:42pm

And Titanic figures into Unsinkable Molly Brown and a scene in Hello Again, as well.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 3:20pm

It's an operetta but "The New Moon" has a very long scene that takes place on a ship.

Updated On: 4/13/12 at 03:20 PM

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 3:25pm

And, of course, both Tarzan and The Little Mermaid have their shipwreck scenes.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 3:25pm

Sweeney Todd. As Sweeney arrives to England.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 4:12pm

Peter Pan

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 4:14pm

CHICAGO.

Wait -- did you mean 'set' on ships?

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 5:05pm

What about all those Disney cruises?

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 5:12pm

No one mentioned Cats yet? Growltiger's Last Stand! Woot!

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 5:18pm

I could only think of the obvious ones like Anything Goes and Titanic and ShowBoat and Pirate Queen

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/13/12 at 5:20pm

The musical flop BILLY, based on Herman Melville's novel Billy Budd about a whaling ship. The show closed on opening night, but I saw a preview. It wasn't so bad.

Smaxie: I don't remember the sinking of the Gigantic in LITTLE ME. Was that in the 1962 production, starring Sid Ceasar; the funniest musical I ever saw? Unfortunately it opened during a newspaper strike in NYC, so print advertising, very important back then, was non existent for weeks.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/14/12 at 12:56am

You might say it's the title character in PACIFIC OVERTURES, Commodore Perry's 4 warships that arrive to forcibly open up feudal Japan, on which key scenes with Perry, Kayama and Manjiro take place. Anyone seeing the original will never forget the sight of Aronson's magnificent design for the warship emerging from its Japanese woodcut waves with glowing dragon's eyes. The sight of the structure slowly unfolding as its metal masts and rigging descended from the flies, was one of those coups de theater that will last us a lifetime.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/14/12 at 1:13am

The Drowsy Chaperone

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/14/12 at 2:54am

@Chewy5000 I don't remember a ship in Drowsy? Big River has a raft does that count?

Seussical and Ragtime both have brief scenes about being on a boat also.

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/14/12 at 4:12am

Some call it a chip? A chip of the air? An airchip?

Oh, SHIP, YES!

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Musicals That Take Place on Ships...

Posted: 4/14/12 at 9:26am

"Yetta's Letters" :-P
"On the island, Ellis Island..."

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