Proshot of UK Production of TITANIC Coming

Will be very nice to have a professionally filmed version of this musical.

Very interesting. I wouldn’t say I love the show but I once took a day trip to Southhampton to watch titanic the musical when it was on tour a few years ago (assuming the same production) and took a titanic walking tour at the same time where they’d show you some of the local sights related to it. Very fun novelty :).

Updated On: 7/14/23 at 02:02 AM

Who's doing the proshot? What site is providing?

Went to the November screening. Barnaby Hughes was the standout for me in an excellent cast. Was not a fan of the camera moving constantly - I was getting seasick. This show, in my opinion, did not need such active camera work and lthere was too much editing from medium to full to closeup. The sound mix seemed off at first so the vocals, I thought, did not seem to soar as much as I remember. Still, I swear it was my allergies acting up making my eyes watery and teary.

Note: there is a gun shot in the show - which I forgot about.

CATSNYrevival said: "Does the production/film include the Overture and Entr’acte and is there an intermission or does the filming play as one act? I’m thinking of going to the showing on Wednesday.

Also I don’t remember a gunshot in Titanic. What scene?"

I don't think is the actual original overture, but the show does start with Andrews at his desk - ghosts of characters appear as does Ismay - the ghosts are accusatory in movement - and there is music, - which leads to Ismay who starts "In every age". Ismay is very much the villain in this production. This is slightly different than I recall at Charing Cross - where it was lights up on Ismay and then the "people" are shouting and gesturing at him, all accusatory. They leave and Ismay starts "In every age"

There is a 10 minute intermission.

I don't recall an Entr'acte to start Act Two - but then the theatre kept the lights on when the film started again and I had to run out to tell them to turn the lights off.

Regarding the gunshot:

Our screening was not well attended. There was my group of four. There was another couple and then a father and young daughter (maybe 10 years old). The father said he had hoped for more stage lighting effects. I told him that the lighting effects live were excellent when we saw this production in London. This is a film, so, of course, some of the immediacy and connection you get in the theatre are missing in part. But, the filmed version still has impact - at least for me.

Also, although this was filmed ( in part) in front of live audiences, the audience is rather muted - some applause after some numbers, and an occasional pull back to we see that there is an audience - but most of the time, I was not aware that there was an audience.

CATSNYrevival said: "That’s disappointing to hear about unnecessary changes. There’s nothing in the original libretto indicating Murdoch's death, and his suicide is a myth as depicted in the 1997 film. His body was never recovered. There’s no evidence he killed himself."

Especially considering the brouhaha that Cameron got himself into with Murdoch's descendants, though maybe that particular wing of the family is no longer around to push the subject.

It's also a little odd that, of all the nips and tucks made for the chamber version, they haven't done anything to ameliorate its portrayal of Ismay, which is just about taken verbatim from the Hearst hit jobs of the day.

I also think it’s great to have a filmed version.

CATSNYrevival said: "Kind of sounds like the director went out of his way to make Ismay even more of a villain."

See I think the opposite, it starts with Ismay utterly traumatised by what he has done.

A heads up to any Antipodeans here, that this pro-shot is screening in a few Australian and New Zealand cinemas in early May. https://www.cinemalive.com/event/Titanic

glad this has been captured somewhere, but honestly the only "proshot" of Titanic i want to see is the simply stunning production Signature Theater (Arlington, not NYC) offered a few years back. or at least -- and yes obv it's way too late -- a cast recording. one of my most memorable nights of theater in 45+ years of attendance.