A few years ago, I recall a dinner theater in New York (Elmsford) billed their production of Titanic as "pre-Broadway". It was a bit of a mess in that, though the cast was excellent for the most part) the PRINCIPAL players doubled for each other and it got confusing. As I recall for example the actor who sings Doing the Ragtime number (Hartley maybe) then became the radio operator in the next scene to sing, The night was alive. And Barrett (and all the other principals) doubled as the millionaires. All the millionaires wives were played by the same actress (who I think was also one of the Kates). It kinda seemed muddled. A song or two were cut such as wake up wake up, as was the wonderful book scene with all the millionaires on the deck of the ship thinking about their lives as the lifeboat go away. I wanted to like the production, but found myself thinking.......huh? I was fortunate to see both the Broadway and German production (which was fantastic and BIG). I loved the original. The set shown in the videos is cool, but I guess having a fuller cast would make it really soar. If this production found it's way to Broadway maybe they could keep the same set (just make is bigger) and actually have all the millionaires played by separate actors instead of doubling so much. They also put back in a song that was cut for B'way between Charles and the character he is with). DIdn't like it. When they put the new song in the German production, 3 days, it was a catchy song, but I didn't like the actors playing Kate and Jim so it didn't have the emotional kick it could have.
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