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i'm always amazed it ran so long

Posted by: Chazwaza 05:03 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: Titanic Revival - MikeR 04:14 pm EST 01/16/14
Not because it wasn't good... I don't know how it played, I never got to see it. But I did listen to the CD and I'll admit it didn't excite me that much. A beautiful score with a few standouts, and I intend to listen to it again asap. But I think the score is a bit too sophisticated to have been a hit without the already well-loved Titanic story. I think Maury Yeston is incredibly talented and I'm excited there is a revival of this happening.

But I have to assume that it's the classic story, the promise of a big show with crazy sets and a large cast, and the lack of obvious competition (The Life was the other big new musical and that is about hookers, or Steel Pier which was disappointing and about old people at a dance competition) and the resulting Tony for Best Musical, the push from Rosie (which helped so many shows back then), that kept it running as long as it did. That, and of course, it opened the same year the world-wide phenomenon movie Titanic came out... which I'm SURE resulted in a LOT of free press, a lot of public interest in the story and going to a musical of it, etc.

I think if Titanic opened a year later, competing with Lion King and Ragtime for new musical audiences, it would have shuttered sooner. Although it still would have had the boost from Titanic the movie, but it would have been out of theaters by then, and the musical wouldn't have won Best Musical to help validate it (and obviously the competition would have been drastically stronger and more abundant).


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