Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Heart of the Ocean

Even without passengers by the names of Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater — aka Leo and Kate — Titanic: The Musical, the Tony Award-winning play that predated James Cameron’s blockbuster, is a gripping account of that fateful April night off the coast of Newfoundland. That’s partly because capsizing a ship onstage is every bit as hard as it sounds, and thus totally engrossing to watch, and partly because Lyric Theatre Company’s production is neatly timed with the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s sinking. Try to hold back the waterworks as “The Largest Floating Object in the World,” as one song calls it, sets sail again.