We’ll Meet Tomorrow – Titanic

him throughout the whole show! I thought it was really cute how, when the ship’s crew come out, they shield their eyes from the sun reflecting off the ship. 🙂

The musical makes J. Bruce Ismay into quite a villian. For those familiar with the movie, he is shown there as being partly at fault, but not a terribly bad person. In the musical he is constantly obsessed with speed and cares for nothing else, and it is implied that the accident is mostly his fault. I didn’t particularly like that interpretation of it.

Brian d’Arcy James as Frederick Barrett was just perfection. “Barrett’s Song” was wonderful…I loved the set for this as well, and I don’t know about everyone else in the theatre, but I got pretty attached to his character right away. 🙂

I think my favourite joke of the entire show came during one of the dinners in the first class dining salon…Mrs. Widener asked Madeleine Astor how she found Paris, and she replied, “Oh, luckily I didn’t have to! Jack knew right where it was.” 🙂

“Lady’s Maid” was a wonderful scene, with all the third class immigrants singing about their search for a better life in America. Even the skeptical Jim Farrell is caught up in the dream by the end. It’s especially touching since you know that most of them are not going to survive.

The whole “No Moon” scene was very well done…incredible sets once again! I wasn’t quite expecting the crow’s nest to descend from the ceiling as it did. 🙂

Just a side note here…am I the only one who thinks that the “Wake Up” tune sounds like something Sondheim would write? 🙂

The scene where Ismay, Smith and Andrews argue over who is to blame for the mess is definitely one of my favourite parts of the show. The music is wonderful, and all three actors were great, especially Michael Cerveris again. Again though, I didn’t really like how Ismay was portrayed in this scene…and that’s not the fault of the actor, but rather the author’s interpretation.

The last scene was just perfect, and the full force of the tragedy just hit you. Again, in comparison to the movie, you definitely feel for Jack and Rose there, but here, there were so many characters that you sympathized with, and felt all of their losses. I cried almost as much as I was afraid I would.