Titanic

ti·tan·ic1 (tī-tăn'ĭk) adj.
Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal: titanic creatures of the deep. Of enormous scope, power, or influence: “a deepening sense that some titanic event lay just beyond the horizon”

I'm amazed at the courage of little Davis Musical Theater Company to take on the plays they do. Saturday evening we and four of our friends were treated to the DMTC's production of Titanic, the 1997 winner of 5 Tony awards including best musical of that year.

The musical is as different from the movie as one could imagine, especially given that they both have the same historical story based on the appropriately named ship, the Titanic. Of course, the DMTC's version of the musical doesn't have Leonardo DeCaprio or Kate Winslet. In fact, although all the parts were well played, none of them stood out as "the" star of the show. One also got the feeling that the stories portrayed were from actual survivors and their remembrances rather than from a screenwriter.

DMTC made excellent use of their new theater, including a stage that begins to slant in the final act leaving one of the final soloists to apparently claw his way up the stage just to stay in the center. Use of music and choral numbers gave the audience the appropriate suspense and resolution. We wll know the Titanic is going to sink but we don't know who will be saved, who will die, and who will take the whole thing very philosophically.

The picture isn't from DMTC's production - they didn't have any on their web site. But you get the idea.