ACT ONE
Overture/prologue: In Every Age
In every age, mankind attempts
To fabricate great works
at once magnificent
and impossible…
On great desert sands, from mountains of stone
A Pyramid!
From flying buttresses alone
A Wall of light
A chapel ceiling
screaming one man’s ecstacy!
One man’s ecstacy…
Miracles them all!
China’s endless wall…
Stonehenge, the parthenon, the duomo
the aqueducts of Rome
We did not attempt to make
with mammoth blocks of stone
a giant pyramid…
nor gothic walls that radiate light…
Our task was to dream upon
and then create
a floating city!…
Floating city!…
A human metropolis…
A complete civilization!
Sleek!
and Fast!
At once a poem
and the perfection
of physical engineering…
at once a dream
and the perfection of physical engineering…
How did they build Titanic?
How did they build Titanic?
Near a thousand feet in length.
Huge beyond past endeavor
Strong beyond mortal strength
Forty-six thousand tons of Steel
Eleven Stories high!
She’s a great floating palace, Floating…
Quiet as a lullaby
There She Is
Fare-thee-well my darlin’
I’ll be back before a fortnight has passed…
Fare-thee-well my darlin’
I’ll be back before a fortnight has passed…
Fare-thee-well, my darlin’
I’ll be back before a fortnight has passed!
Barrett – stoker off the Baltic-
Fleet -lookout off the Majestic-
Harold Bride – wireless operator with
the Marconi Telegraph Company.
There she is…
Towering high…
Broad and grand…
Ship of dreams!
Sailing Day!
Morning Bright!
Take your flight!
Ship of dreams!…
She strains at her lines,
The smoke from her funnels trailing.
Her prow like a knife.,
She’ll cut through the waves unfailing.
Soon to be
Underway,
Size and speed unexplored..
And I’ll be aboard
That ship of dreams!
Loading Inventory
7000 Heads of fresh lettuce, Titanic!
Morning, Mr. Lightholler
Morning, Mr. Pitman
Morning Mr. Boxhall
Morning, Captain Smith!
Morning Captain!
Morning Captain!
36,000 oranges Titanic!
Morning, Mr. Hitchens
Morning Mr. Pitman
Morning Mr. Murdoch
Morning, Captain Smith
Morning Murdoch…
Morning, Captain!
Mr. Pitman, Please
Complete the loading of the freight
And prepare for the boarding of the
serving staff and crew!
Aye Captain!
There she is…Towering High!
Broad and Grand! Ship of Dreams!
Morning Mr. Andrews
Hello Mr. Ismay
Morning Mr. Etches
Hello Mr. Pitman
Morning Mr. Whitely
42,000 fresh eggs Titanic!
Sailing Day! Morning Bright!
Take your flight ship of dreams!
Morning Mr. Crawford
Hello Mrs. Hutchinson
Morning, Mrs. Robinson
Hello, Mrs. Beecham
Morning, Mr. Weikman!
122,000 pounds of meat, poultry and fish Titanic!
40 tons of potatoes, 1100 pounds of
marmalade, 37,000 bottles of wine,
beer and spirits, Titanic!
55,000 china dishes and 20,000
crystal drinking glasses, Titanic!
One Renault town carriage motorcar,
Titanic!
Soon to be underway..
Size and speed unexplored…
Morning Mr. Widgery
Hello Mr. Oliver
Morning Mr. Hartley
Hello Mr. Joughin
Cheers! Mr. Weikman
And I’ll be aboard that ship of dreams!
The Largest Moving Object
Captain Smith has there ever been
A finer morning to sail!
Never quite like this, Mr. Ismay!
Never quite like this, Sir!
Mr. Andrews, has the line ever had
a faster ship for the mail?
Not as fast as this, Mr. Ismay!
Never quite like this one, Sir!
The pride of mankind…
Dominion over the sea!
The Dream
The Dream of progress!
It brings great honor to me!
To be the master…
And the builder!
And the owner!
Of the largest moving object in the world!
I Must Get On That Ship
3rd class passengers
proceed at once to the gangway!
Please bring your boarding documents
and await further instruction!..
Holy Mother of God!
Is that a ship or a mountain?
It looks long enough so a body could
walk to America!
I’m Katherine McGowan, but
everyone calls me Kate.
I’m Kate, too. Kate Mullins.
And I’m Kate, three! Kate Murphey!
It must be fate!
It’s not fate. It’s Irish.
You travelin’ alone?
Not me. I’ve got a feller. See that good looking one up ahead?
I’m plannin’ to marry him.
When that’s gonna be?
Soon as I meet him.
Get me aboard
Call out my name
It’s to america we aim
to find a better life.
We prayed to make this trip!
Let all our children’s children know
That this day long ago
We dreamt of them
and came aboard this ship!
For the maiden voyage!
For the maiden voyage!
Get us all aboard!
Second class passengers
proceed to C, D, and E decks!
Please contact the ships purser
to arrange dining assignments!…
No account in the national press
has quite done justice to this!
It’s a sight for once in a lifetime!
Yes, a sight for once in a lifetime!
And the chance to marry now
we two daren’t miss!
It’s a chance for once in a lifetime!
Yes, a chance for once in a lifetime!
Can’t wait to board that ship today,
Be with her when she pulls away
And takes her maiden sail,
I must get on that ship!
The largest grandest on the earth
And I’ve reserved a birth
to be aboard,now point me toward
that ship!
The finest people will attend.
The best among them we’ll befriend
They’ll stand right next to us,
Be at my fingertip…
Great heads of state and millionaires
Who run the world’s affairs
Will all be there.
I must get on that ship!
For the maiden voyage!
For the maiden voyage!
Get us all aboard!
The First Class Roster
Colonel John Jacob Astor
And Mrs. Astor, too.
Arriving now from that boat train
Direct from Waterloo station
May proceed to their parlour suite
A-62!
Her name is Madeline
She’s John Jacob Astor’s Second Wife,
She’s only Nineteen-years-old
And now she’s married to a prominent man
Worth over a hundred and fifty million
And twenty-nine years her senior!
They’ve only been married seven months
She’s already seven months pregnant
And the scandel was such
They ran away to the Europe to avoid
The publicity!
Avoid the publicity!
Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus may proceed to
the Parlour Suite – B-55!-
Aren’t they modest?
You’d never think by looking at them
That he and his brother own Macy’s
Department Store…Outright!
And he was close advisor
to President Grover Cleveland
And served in the House of Representatives
Two Full terms!
And that’s his wife of forty years, named Ida
Sad! She’s hasn’t been well
So the two of them have been wintering
On the French Riveria
French Riveria!
Mr. Benjamin Guggenheim and party
will find his customary suite on
A Deck!
Made his money smelting gold
spends it like the water
Forty five hundred dollars for
The Louis Quatorze Suite!
So he can live in luxurious sin
With his latest mistress!
And they call that justice!
They call that justice?…
Mr and Mrs. George Widener may
proceed to Promenade Suite B-51!
He’s the richest man in Philadelphia
Mr. and Mrs. John B Thayer
and family, Promenade Suite B-58!
Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad!
Mrs. Charlotte Drake Cardoza Suite B-54!
No one really knows who she is but
the newspaper says she’s booked
The most expensive suite on the ship
And travels with fourteen steamer trunks
A medicine chest
Her personal pillows and sheets
And four little pekinese dogs…
So she must be somebody…
She mus be somebody!
Last call for boarding!
This is the very last call for boarding!
Lift up the ramp
Let go the lines
Raise up her colours and design!
Prepare for the casting off
And through the port we’ll slip
Each person standing at the rail,
Let one great thought prevail,
One single prayer…
God bless this noble ship!
All ashore who are going ashore!
All ashore who are going ashore!
Godspeed Titanic
Farewell, Farewell
Godspeed Titanic…
From your berth glide free!
As you plough the deep,
In your arms I’ll keep.
Safely West
May you carry me.
Sail On, Sail On
Great Ship Titanic…
Cross the open sea
Pray the journey’s sound
Til your port be found
Fortune’s winds
Sing Godspeed to thee…
Fortune’s winds
Sing Godspeed to thee!