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 shown in different countries all around the world. It is very surprising reading about the success of the musical when it had to rival against so many other musicals, and even other works based on the same topic. I had no idea that the musical existed before reading Angel's blog, but after this discovery, it makes perfect sense why the topic would work in this particular art medium. The mix of love, drama, and loss make optimal themes for a musical and are great topics to work music and song into.

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