'Titanic' Production Marks Sinking's Centennial

Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010, 5:20pm

Curtain Players will present the musical Titanic in April 2012 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the legendary luxury liner's tragic sinking.

No director or production staff has been selected for this special presentation, but the community theatre's goal is to have a team in place before the end of 2010. Titanic premiered on Broadway April 23, 1997, and that season won five Tony Awards including Best Musical.

More than 1,500 people died when on its maiden voyage, the HMS Titanic collided with an iceberg and in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, sunk to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. What was up to that time the finest, largest, and strongest ship in the world, Titanic was considered unsinkable by its owners and builders, which made the tragedy so incredible that the story resonates nearly a century later.