ACT TWO cont.
To the Lifeboats
You and I are getting in the lifeboat
Father will be staying here a while
It will be like rowing in the serpentine
Come along now, Let us have a smile…
Go Along with mother to the lifeboat…
John…
Don’t even say it
I’ll be fine
I’ll collect you both tomorrow morning
you and this beloved son of mine
I Must Get on
that Ship (reprise)
Madam, step this way into the lifeboat
Mr. Straus, by all means take a place…
No. I will not go before the younger men
Go Ida- you must go now –
For what? To live without you?
Absolutely not!
Where you go I go!
You must get in
Please step this way…
Maddie Dear, you must
Get in the lifeboat
There is no time
Please don’t delay
Edgar, Look I’m next to Mrs. Astor
This is the last to leave
It must be lowered now
You must get in
Please step this way
Eleanor you must
Get in the lifeboat
There is no time
Caroline, come quick
Here is a lifeboat
This is the last to leave
Little remaining,
Final lifeboat
It must be lowered now…
There’s gotta be a place in that boat Kate –
take it for God’s sake!
I’m not going without you, Jim!
I don’t want to be a widow before I’m a bride!
You’re going to be a Lady’s Maid!
Lady’s Maid in America!
The Proposal/The Night was Alive (reprise)
Be thee well
May the Lord who
Watches all
Watch over thee
May God’s heaven be
Your blanket
As you softly sleep
It’s alive with a thousand voices.
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The night is alive with a thousand voices (etc)
Hurry up now we must
Get in the lifeboat!
Hurry now we’re
Running out of time!
My arms you’ll plainly see
This devoted sailor’s heart
And soul are yours to keep…
Yours to keep!
My work
No one else’s
Lower Away!!!
Hurry Now!
There isn’t any time!
We’ll Meet Tomorrow
We’ll meet tomorrow
We will find a path
And reach tomorrow
Past this day of wrath
We’ll be together once again
Cling to your hope and prayers til then…
I’ll hold thee closely
As I say goodbye
And keep your image
In my memory’s eye
And all this love of ours will soar
Come dawn or danger
We’ll meet tomorrow
And have eachother evermore
Give us tomorrow
And another hour
Let our reunion
Come within our power…
Grant one more chance
To make a start
That we may live for
As we part…
Come say you love me
As I kiss your eyes
Let one brief moment
Make eternal ties…
If tomorrow is not in store
Let this embracing
Replace forever
Keep us together
Evermore
Still
Still
The way I love you
Still
Lives in my heart
After all the years
We’ve been together
Holding our Love
Still…
The way you move me
Still
Feels as it did
When you first became mine
Whispered the words
“I will”
I loved you then
And I love you
Still
No one else could play your role
Forever know my mind
True Companion of my soul
I won’t turn from
You I learn from
Still…
Through fortune’s changes
Still
Always we’ve known…
That the promise we made…
Kept us as one
And will!
I loved you then…
And I love you still!
To be a Captain (reprise)
Thousands on board
Each in his class
You are the master of all that must pass
Yours to set course
Yours to command
You hold our souls
In the palm of your hand
You hold our souls
In the palm of your hand.
Mr Andrews’ Vision
Just a cursory look at the blueprints here
Shows the weaknesses that we have missed
How the water poured in
A three-hundred foot gash
And caused the bow to flood and to list
and then it filled to the top
Our separate watertight compartments
And began to overflow…
Because the walls in between the compartments
Are too low!
She’s the only sinking because these
bulkheads stop a deck too low
But here’s a thought! Take a line…
And extend up the walls to the brink..
It’s just a small redesign…
But when it’s done,
then I know that she can’t sink!
Like this!..
Like this!
Like this!
And then like this!…
Mr. Andrews!
Aren’t you going to make a go for it?
Mr. Andrews!
The ship will start to plunge beneath the surface
The water lapping at our feet
Down sinks the bow, up flies the stern
To the sky…
The panicked people in retreat
A thousand strong, they’ll climb up
Toward the aft deck
They’ll cling they’re desparately
Like bees to a hive!
There they’ll hold fast
Doomed to the last
and all
Still alive
A few of them will hang there
From the railings
As, one by one, they’ll drop away!
More than two-hundred-fifty feet
They will fall
And after that, I cannot say
I will not say!
The rest in swarms will overrun the boat deck
They’ll lose all sense of right and wrong
It will be “every man for himself” all right!
The weak thrown in with all the strong!
First class, and third, and second
Will mean nothing!
And sheer humanity alone will prevail
One single class
Brute, Harsh and crass
That’s what will come of the world that set
sail
Autumn…
Shall we all meet in the Autumn?…
Shall we all meet in the Autumn?…
Aboard the Carpathia
One moment the ship was there – the next she was gone.
There were over a thousand poor souls floundering in the freezing
water…
We wanted to go back for them of course to pick them up…
But they would have swamped us… then no one could have
survived…
The sound they made was deafening like there was an
entire football stadium out there in the dark…
And then after half an hour…
It just stopped…
I’m ashamed to say I was relieved…
I’ll hear those voices for the rest of my life…
Why shouldn’t I have taken a place in the lifeboat?
It would have gone empty…
There were more than 450 empty seats in the lifeboat…
The women were so brave. Alone in the dark in the middle of the
ocean…
If only I had seen that iceberg before it was too late..
If only they hadn’t kept increasing the speed…
If only the Kalifornia had heard my call. I stayed with the key
’til the end. They could have saved every man, woman and child
aboard…
We were only 95 miles from dry land…
When dawn came we could see the ice everywhere…
And it was all bathed in pink and hundreds of deck chairs
floating in the water…
All of the poor women & children in third class who never
made it to the boats…
All of the musicians who kept playing Autumn right to the very
end…
With only 711 survivors – 1517 souls lost their lives.
Including the man I called my husband…
And my husband…
And my husband…
And my husband…
And my husband…
And after only a few minutes the largest moving object on earth
had totally disappeared…
In Every Age (reprise/Finale)
Fare thee well
May the Lord who watches all
Watch over thee
May God’s Heaven be your blanket
As you softly sleep…
Softly sleep…
In every age mankind attempts
To fabricate great works
At once magnificent
And impossible…
On desert sands, from mountains of stone
A pyramid!
From flying butrresses alone
A Wall of light!
A Chapel ceiling
Screaming one man’s ecstasy!
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
No, Not a pyramid…
Nor gothic walls that radiate with light…
Our task was to dream upon
And then create
A floating city!…
Floating city!…
A Human Metropolis…
A Complete Civilzation!
Sleek!
And fast!
At once a poem
And the perfection
of physical engineering…
At once a poem
And the perfection of physical engineering…
Sail on, Sail on
Great Ship Titanic!
Cross the open sea
Pray the journey’s sound
Till your port be found
Fortune’s winds
Sing Godspeed to thee…
Fortune’s winds
Sing Godspeed to thee!