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  title info:
    title: Titanic
    sub title: the complete book of the musical
  name:
    name part: Stone, Peter
    name part: 1930-2003
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: librettist.
  name:
    name part: Yeston, Maury
    role:
      role term: lyricist.
  name:
    name part: Marcus, Joan
    role:
      role term: photographer.
  type of resource: text
  genre: librettos (documents for music)
  genre: Librettos
  genre: Librettos.
  genre: Livrets (Musique)
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 172 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
  abstract: "They said it couldn't be done. They said you couldn't have a Broadway musical about the Titanic. The very notion is laughable. You couldn't have people on a stage singing and dancing about a tragedy. And you especially couldn't have one where every single person in the audience knows the ending as they take their seats. But Peter Stone, who wrote the story and the book, and Maury Yeston, who composed the score and wrote the lyrics, pressed on. They had a much higher opinion of the musical-going public than the experts did. But then one complication followed another, expenses for the lavish production grew and grew--so much so that Stone and Yeston and their producers knew they couldn't afford to have the usual out-of-town tryouts. They'd have to open cold before a first-night Broadway audience, with all the naysayers sharpening their pencils to a needle point right out front. And then in April 1997, almost exactly 85 years after the Titanic touched bottom in the North Atlantic, Titanic the musical set sail at the Lunt-Fontanne theatre for its maiden voyage. And it didn't sink. It soared. Audiences loved it. Even the expert naysayers had to backtrack. It was, all agreed, a glorious, ground-breaking Broadway musical. It was in the grand tradition of those other "daring" musicals which in the years since the Titanic's sinking had transformed the American musical from a tawdry girlie show with Tin Pan Alley ditties into a major American art form--Jerome Kern's Show Boat, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (also "sure" to tank), Bernstein's West Side Story (one of the first musical tragedies). Stone and Yeston's Titanic had now carried that noble tradition even farther, into the next century. Finally, at the Tony awards, the crowning was completed--Titanic swept the board, winning an astonishing five statuettes. In an odd way, Titanic the Musical reversed the fortunes of Titanic the Ocean Liner. The latter was given every chance for success, and failed. The former was …
  abstract: "A full-color gallery with over 150 photos of the original Broadway production; color costume and set designs and sketches; the complete back-story of the production from concept to launch to hit musical; artists at the helm: the crossing from fact to fiction; a brief history of Titanic lore; poster and marketing art; and the complete book and lyrics."--
  table of contents: How did they build Titanic? / Peter Stone -- Titanic attire and model ships : design sketches and model sets for the production / Stewart Laing -- A composition of Titanic proportions / Maury Yeston -- Titanic, the musical -- Those who perished.
  note: story and book by Peter Stone ; music and lyrics by Maury Yeston ; photographs by Joan Marcus.
  note: "An Applause original"--Title page verso
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Yeston, Maury
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Titanic (Yeston, Maury)
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
    genre: Librettos
  subject:
    topic: Comédies musicales
    genre: Livrets
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
    topic: Librettos
  classification: ML50.Y48 T58 1999
  classification: 782.14
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Libretto for (work): Titanic
    name:
      name part: Yeston, Maury.
  identifier: 1557833559
  identifier: 9781557833556
  identifier: 1557833761
  identifier: 9781557833761
  identifier: 98089566
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: JED
    record creation date: 990201
    record change date: 20240807182940.6
    record identifier: in00004807738
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng