Titanic the Musical-Question- Page 2

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:15pm

There's a youth theatre in Arizona that had some kick ass sets too, judging from the pictures...



http://www.vyt.com/PhotoNavigate.php?Season=2003-2004&Show=Titanic&Order=001

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:22pm

The German (Essen) recording features the yummy Patrick Stanke as Barrett. Mercifully, he was directed to "stoke" shirtless.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:24pm

Holy crap! It's pretty shocking to see that this Valley Youth Theatre's production level and design is simply phenomenal, surpassing the original Broadway production completely. The original Broadway production did not even have nor use half of those detailed sets this production has.

Wow!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:30pm

I know it was a major flop, but I really wish they'd revive this show maybe in a couple years. I think it was bad timing coming out with the movie being released the same year (I think?).

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:50pm

I saw the tour and I'm with MYB. The set design and, to a lesser extent, the costume design, are probably the ugliest I've ever seen in a profeessional production. There was a lot of empty space and overuse of backdrops in lieu of real sets.

[raphael06]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 5:54pm

Valley Youth Theatre rented their set from an amazing production in California.

[me2]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:33pm

I don't think it was a major flop. It ran for several years, didn't it?

FYI, the libretto was made available. I'm sure you can find copies out there somewhere. There's lots of great pictures (though I don't think any show the tiered version of the set), and you get the full libretto, which is always a great read.
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[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:59pm

The original production ran for nearly two years, but did not pay back it's initial investment, so unfortunately it was a flop.

[Mythus]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:11pm

I have the libretto! I'll go check to see if there's any relevant pictures in it...

[Wicked63]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:14pm

This is the kind of show an opera company should takeup. In London the English National Opera company are at the moment doing revivals of Broadway shows such as On The Town and Kismet. My guess is they could easily put this show on the size it should have been seen. The Lunt in NY is a big stage but that whole theatre building could sit on the stage alone at the Colisiem in St. Martins Lane

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:34pm

relevant pictures, Mythus? there's multiple pictures of practically every scene in that book...

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:35pm

>> SeanMartin - nope, the model ship was a firm part of the show.

I thought it was a great touch.

The problem was that it was so woefully out of scale with the rest of the production. Here we've seen the ship pretty close up -- then we get this model scudding across. It just threw the overall proportion of things way out of line and made the most important moment of the entire evening something straight out of Thunderbirds. Sorry, but they should have rethought that. That scene could have staged far better, consdering all the technology we have at hand these days.

[Mythus]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 11:11pm

I meant of the ship sinking and what it looked like, CATS, so the original poster could get a grasp of it. I haven't looked in it for a while, so I don't remember what pictures are in it.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 6/26/07 at 10:47pm

There's a good clip of how they did the ship sinking here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XxjWg3Tujfo

[dramarama2]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 8:22am

I saw the Australian Production of the show last year. The sets were great, and looked extremely expensive but they were nothing like Broadway or Touring sets. Instead of having the whole stage, they had a single elevated platform, much like the one the greek chorus stand on at the end of act 1, and during act 2 they had it slowly tip, to the point where the actors were almost slipping down it.
For the rest of the ship, they would have, say, the elegant 1st class cabin, to the 3rd class cabin, completely normal in Act 1, and in Act 2 they had deformed and tilted versions of the same scenes.
For the end of act 1, they didn't have a model ship. It was just a normal scene of the pilots cabin, and then suddenly everything went black, and they had a really loud crunching sound from the orchestra, with screams from the cast.
I've got some pictures of the show, but no real good ones of the set.

Updated On: 6/27/07 at 08:22 AM