Variety: Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers behind the Broadway revivals “Chicago” and “Pippin,” have teamed up with Canuck theater owner-producer David Mirvish to captain a revival of 1997 Broadway musical “Titanic,” in a production that launches this summer in Toronto ahead of a planned Broadway berth in the fall.
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I've never seen a production of 'Titanic' (I've only seen the movie like 13 times!) but this sounds exciting. 'Titanic' is such a "broadway musical" story line. And the movie was such a hit that I wouldn't be surprised if a revival of the musical were one too (if only temporarily). I mean, I would go see it... The costumes would also, hopefully, be beautiful! That time period is just so refined and everything would flow and be pretty. Oh, I would love to design some dresses for this if I could. I could just see a girl (Emma? was her name Emma? I don't remember... well, there goes my "I saw the movie 13 times"...) in this beautiful creme colored silk chiffon dress with puce ribbons weaving in and out around the neckline and and intricate princess seam to take it in a little as it flows outward!!! Ah, I want to go sketch now! Bye!
I saw a performance of this at a local high school near my hometown a couple years ago. It was not what I expected, but it was very entertaining, and good to see a performance about the sinking of the Titanic from a perspective other that that of "Jack" and "Rose". I was impressed with the performance that the high school put on, so I'm sure that once it goes to Broadway, it will be spectacular.
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