Angel de Quinta's Stage Door Blog
The most striking musical that I found while browsing Angel's blog is Titanic . The whole idea of turning the tragic event into a musical happened when Maury Yeston, a composer and musicologist, watched a program about the remains of the Titanic being found. The thought of the people who endured the night of the sinking and how much their lives changed in a matter of hours piqued Yeston's creative mind to make a musical. By the time of his idea though, many books, documentaries, and even one of the worlds highest grossing movies were made, so there was much competition already in the circuit. First, the music was composed. This apparently was the easy part of creating this musical because the technological aspects of the story line, such as the breaking of the ship, proved difficult to build and then be transferred to a new venue. Many thought that this production would be a major failure, but that was far from the truth. Titanic did so well that it got 5 Tony awards and was sh...