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The
sinking of the TITANIC in the early hours of April 15, 1912, remains
the quintessential disaster of the 20th century. A total of 1,517
souls-men, women and children-lost their lives (only 711 survived). The
fact that the finest, largest, strongest ship in the world-called, in
fact, the "unsinkable" ship-should have been lost during its maiden
voyage is so incredible that, had it not actually happened, no author
would have dared to contrive it. But the catastrophe had social
ramifications that went far beyond that night's events. For the first
time since the beginning of the industrial revolution early in the 19th
Century, bigger, faster and stronger did not prove automatically to be
better. Suddenly the very essence of "progress" had to be questioned;
might the advancement of technology not always be progress? Nor was
this the only question arising from the disaster. The accommodations of
the ship, divided into 1st, 2nd and 3rd Classes, mirrored almost
exactly the class structure (upper, middle and lower) of the
English-speaking world. But when the wide discrepancy between the
number of survivors from each of the ship's classes was revealed-all
but two of the women in 1st Class were saved while 155 women and
children from 2nd and 3rd (mostly 3rd) drowned-there was a new,
long-overdue scrutiny of the prevailing social system and its values.
It is not an exaggeration to state that the 19th Century, with its
social stricture, its extravagant codes of honor and sacrifice, and its
unswerving belief that God favored the rich, ended that night.
The musical play TITANIC examines the causes, the conditions and the characters involved in this ever-fascinating drama. This is the factual story of that ship-of her officers, crew and passengers, to be sure-but she will not, as has happened so many times before, serve as merely the background against which fictional, melodramatic narratives are recounted. The central character of our TITANIC is the TITANIC herself. Senior Center for the Arts and Circle Players brings this Tony Award Winning Musical to the Nashville Community Theatre for a second exciting run!. With a cast of over 50 very talented people this is sure to be the event of the theatre season. COME JOIN US ON THE SHIP OF DREAMS! Purchase Tickets Here |
