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...this season would bring another of those old-fashioned megabudget bombs of Broadway legend. What else could one expect from a $10 million musical called Titanic, based on everybody's favorite sea disaster and seemingly headed for a similar catastrophe, after some well-publicized technical problems (the ship had a bit of trouble sinking) during previews...
...Titanic, it turns out, is no disaster, just an uninspired shipboard melodrama with watery songs, predictable musings about the hubris of the enterprise, and a surfeit of cliched characters. They include the ship's craven owner, who keeps urging the captain to increase the speed; aristocrats like the John Jacob Astors and the Isidor Strauses, who drown with dignity; and some tiresomely idealistic Irish immigrants in steerage. What director Richard Jones and scenic designer Stewart Laing have accomplished, however, is an imaginative, even haunting, stage rendering of the sinking: the stage tilts ominously; faces of the doomed passengers appear...
After final exams are over, the Harvard Din and Tonics will be packing their bags for a jaunt to London, after which they will board a cruise ship back to New York. The only string? They'll have to sing for their supper...
...heard mixed things about the ship," he said. "The people who loved it said that they gained a lot of weight because the food was too good, but one person said she had a miserable time because during the entire Atlantic crossing they had 30-foot seas, so we're hoping for good weather on our voyage...
Collins encouraged Latin-American students to take advantage of the resources at Harvard while Curiel stressed the importance of mentor-ship, prompting John D. Couriel '00 to ask for an internship during the question and answer session...