Original Broadway Cast Recording
It takes guts to write a musical about the century's most infamous disaster, yet Broadway's Titanic unflinchingly sails forth with its cargo of epic themes aboard what was the earth's largest man-made moving object, until it suddenly stopped moving on April 15, 1912. The Tony Award-winning Maury Yeston score is big and moving too, influenced by the moody Sweeney Todd, and the rich orchestration relies little on the cheap-sounding synthesizers that mar such contemporaries as Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera. Yeston's lyrics, somber but not mawkish, steady the course (one inspired touch: Yeston imagines the ship's designer frantically redrawing his blueprints to make the sinking liner unsinkable once more, on paper). This Titanic, at least, is shipshape. (RCA Victor)
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