History Theatre / Titanic

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: As is typical for many adaptations of the incident, Bruce Ismay is depicted in a very critical light. He spends most of the first act constantly urging the captain to increase the ship's speed (despite objections from the crew), in order to generate good press for the Titanic's maiden voyage and to please the wealthy first-class passengers - directly leading to the ship's fatal impact with the iceberg due to being unable to turn in time to avoid it. In reality, there is no evidence that Ismay ever did such a thing, and indeed as the head of White Star Line (whose ships were famed for prioritising luxury and comfort over speed), he would be the ''least likely'' person to insist on hastening the voyage.[[note]]For context, the fast, flighty Cunarders that contended for the Blue Riband had an average cruising speed of around 25 knots -- which is as fast as the ''Olympic''-class' ''maximum'' speed. But the "Greyhounds of the Atlantic" paid a price for all that power: they were known to rattle rather uncomfortably during the voyage from the vibration of the engines. White Star, on the other hand, deliberately chose to go in the other direction, and were quite successful at it.[[/note]]

* OneSteveLimit: Very much averted, as almost every character in the show is named after [[RealityEnsues a real-life crew member or passenger on the ship]].

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: As is typical for many adaptations of the incident, Bruce Ismay is depicted in a very critical light. He spends most of the first act constantly urging the captain to increase the ship's speed (despite objections from the crew), in order to generate good press for the Titanic's maiden voyage and to please the wealthy first-class passengers - directly leading to the ship's fatal impact with the iceberg due to being unable to turn in time to avoid it. In reality, there is no evidence that Ismay ever did such a thing, and indeed as the head of White Star Line (whose ships were famed for prioritising luxury and comfort over speed), he would be the ''least likely'' person to insist on hastening the voyage.

* Jim Farrell boards a lifeboat by claiming to be a seaman. This is how First Class passenger Arthur Peuchen survived, Jim Farrell died during the disaster.

** "Lady's Maid" is sung by Kate McGowan and the rest of the third-class passengers while dreaming of the bright future awaiting them in America. The reprise is sung ''to'' Kate by her new fiancé Jim as he tries to convince her to get into the lifeboat and leave him behind with most of the other third-class passengers as the ship sinks.

* MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber: The Launching: I Must Get On That Ship, where the 3rd and 2nd class passengers sing about why they are, well... getting on that ship.

* SettingOffSong: The Lanching, a name for a collection of 6 songs about the launching of the Titanic that are in order: "How Did They Build Titanic?", "There She Is", "Loading Inventory", "I Must Get On That Ship", "The 1st Class Roster" and finally "Godspeed Titanic"

* QuarrelingSong: "The Blame" Where the Captain (E.J.Smith), one of the designer (Thomas Andrews) and the owner (J. Bruce Ismay) of the Titanic argue about who was to blame for the sinking of the ship.

** For being a show that got most things right about the ''Titanic'', it does get a few things wrong: One of the lyrics in "Mr Andrews’ Vision" says "the water poured in a 300 foot gash". It didn't, it poured in a number of holes along a 300 foot '''length''' and this was 1997, they knew by them. It probably just rhymed better.

* DarkReprise: "To Be A Captain" is a short song sung in the first by First Officer Murdoch about the importance of the position of Captain and how he feels he isn't qualified to take it. At the end, the same song is reprised by Chief Steward Etches as a eulogy for Captain Smith.

* IWantSong: "Lady's Maid", a song about what the 3rd class passengers want to do when they get to America, and "I Must Get on That Ship", a song about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wanting to get on that ship.]]

* TheSongBeforeTheStorm: "Autumn/Finale" Autumn is a slow, oldtimey song that eventually gets mixed with bits of the previous song "No Moon" about how dark the night is and the fact that you cannot see anything but stars... then the [[MoodWhiplash iceberg hits.]]

''Titanic: The Musical'', (or officially just Titanic) was a Broadway musical that opened in 1997 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on the 23rd of April, starring John Cunningham as Captain E. J. Smith, Michael Cerveris as Thomas Andrews, and David Garrison as J. Bruce Ismay. The musical ended won 5 Tonys including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical, and ran for two years. A UK production opened in 2018.

The plot of the musical follows the crew and passengers of the RMS ''Titanic'' as it makes its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912. It focus on no one in particular, instead choosing to give almost every class of person on the ship a song and or a moment and therefore has no one single protagonist. (Other than the ''Titanic'' herself, if you will)

!!Tropes:

''Titanic: The Musical'', (or officially just Titanic) was a Broadway musical that opened in 1997 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on the 23rd of April, starring John Cunningham as Captain E. J. Smith, Michael Cerveris as Thomas Andrews, and David Garrison as J. Bruce Ismay. The musical ended up winning 5 Tonys including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical, but despite this it closed at a loss two years later and received poor to mediocre reviews.

The Show was, however, revived in the U K, and began to tour, to Positive Critical Reception, in 2018?

* WhamLine:
-->'''Stoker Foreman Frederick Barrett:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck The screws are turning at eighty-one...]]

The Show was, however, revived in the U K, and began tour, to Positive Critical Reception, in 2018?

The Show was, however, revived in the U K, and began tour, to Critical Acclaim, in 2018?

** For being a show that got most things right about the ''Titanic'', it does get a few things wrong: One of the lyrics in "Mr Andrew's Vision" says "the water poured in a 300 foot gash". It didn't, it poured in a number of holes along a 300 foot '''length''' and this was 1997, they know by them. It probably just rhymed better.

''Titanic: The Musical'', (or officially just Titanic) was a Broadway musical that opened in 1997 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on the 23rd of April, starring John Cunningham as Captain E. J. Smith, Michael Cerveris as Thomas Andrews, and David Garrison as J. Bruce Ismay. The musical ended up winning 5 Tony's including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical, but despite this it closed at a loss two years later and received poor to mediocre reviews.

The plot of the musical follows the crew and passengers of the RMS ''Titanic'' as it makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in April 1912. It focus on no one in particular, instead choosing to give almost every class of person on the ship a song and or a moment and therefore has no one single protagonist. (Other than the ''Titanic'' herself, if you will)

* FinalLoveDuet: "Still" a duet between Isidor and Ida Straus. [[spoiler: More final than most because they die not soon after.]]

* IWantSong: "Lady's Maid" A song about what the 3rd class passengers want to do when they get to America and "I Must Get on That Ship" a song about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wanting to get on that ship.]]

* SanitySlippageSong: "Mr Andrews Vision" Where Thomas Andrews [[spoiler:Suffers a nervous breakdown over the design flaw that caused the sinking of the ship, redesigning the blueprints until he breaks off, imagining the fate of those left on the ship until he eventually dies.]]

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: For being a show that got most things right about the ''Titanic'', it does get a few things wrong: One of the lyrics in "Mr Andrew's Vision" says "the water poured in a 300 foot gash". It didn't, it poured in a number of holes along a 300 foot '''length''' and this was 1997, they know by them. It probably just rhymed better.

* SettingOffSong: The Lanching, a name for a collection of 6 songs about the launching of the Titanic that are in order: "How Did They Build Titanic?", "There She Is", "Loading Inventory", "The Large Moving Object", "I Must Get On That Ship", "The 1st Class Roster" and finally "Godspeed Titanic"

* QuarrelingSong: "The Blame" Where the Captain (E.J.Smith), the designer (Thomas Andrews) and the owner (J. Bruce Ismay) of the Titanic argue about who was to blame for the sinking of the ship.

* IWantSong: "Lady's Maid" A song about what the 3rd class whan to do when they get America and "I Must Get on That Ship" a song about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wanting to get on that ship.]]

The plot of the musical follows the crew and passengers of the RMS ''Titanic'' as it makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in April 1912. It focus on no one in particular, instead choosing to give almost every class of person on the ship a song and a moment and therefore has no one single protagonist. (Other than the ''Titanic'' herself, if you will)