[Capchapohio] TITANIC THE MUSICAL with audio description - Promo code included!

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From: General Manager [mailto:srotheatregm at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 5:26 PM
To: General Manager <srotheatregm at gmail.com>
Subject: TITANIC THE MUSICAL with audio description - Promo code included!

Special offer for patrons who will be utilizing the audio description at the one performance at which it will be provided: USE PROMO CODE AUDIO FOR A SPECIAL BUY ONE - GET ONE FREE OFFER FOR THE 2PM PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25th FOR PURCHASES MADE BY FEBRUARY 15th!

To reserve headsets for audio description after placing an order online, either e-mail srotheatregm at gmail.com <mailto:srotheatregm at gmail.com>  with your name or call us at 614-427-3324 and leave a message.

            FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Kristofer Green, Artistic Director

 <mailto:sro.kristofergreen at gmail.com> sro.kristofergreen at gmail.com

614-427-3324     <http://www.srotheatre.org> www.srotheatre.org   

SRO THEATRE’S 2017-2018 SEASON CONTINUES WITH 

AN AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE OF

TITANIC THE MUSICAL

(Columbus, Ohio) January 2, 2018 -- SRO Theatre Company’s 33rd season continues with Titanic The Musical, Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s stunning musical about the ill-fated ocean liner and its passengers.

The production, directed by SRO Theatre Artistic Director Kristofer Green, will play the Columbus Performing Arts Center’s Van Fleet Theatre beginning with a preview performance on Thursday, February 15, 2018. The Tony Award musical officially opens Friday, February 16 and will run through Sunday, February 25, 2018.

Audio description for people who are blind or hearing impaired will be available at the Sunday, February 25th performance. To reserve a headset for the audio description, patrons should call (614) 427-3324 or e-mail srotheatregm at gmail.com <mailto:srotheatregm at gmail.com>  at least two weeks before the performance to secure availability. Patrons taking advantage of this accessibility feature are advised to arrive by 1:15 p.m. for pre-performance program notes.

Based on the real-life passengers and crew of the RMS Titanic, the musical won 5 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score. The story focuses on the hopes and aspirations of the souls aboard the greatest ship in the world. Unaware of the fate that awaits them, the Third-Class immigrants dream of a better life in America, the newly-enfranchised Second Class dream of achieving the lifestyles of the rich and famous, and the millionaire Barons of the First Class dream of their hegemony lasting forever.

Titanic The Musical is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of events that took place in the final hours of April 14, 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic. On her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the unsinkable ship collided with an iceberg and slowly sank. It was one of the most tragic disasters of the 20th Century. 1517 men, women and children lost their lives.

The discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985 attracted Yeston's interest in writing a musical about the famous disaster. "What drew me to the project was the positive aspects of what the ship represented – 1) humankind's striving after great artistic works and similar technological feats, despite the possibility of tragic failure, and 2) the dreams of the passengers on board: 3rd Class, to immigrate to America for a better life; 2nd Class, to live a leisured lifestyle in imitation of the upper classes; 1st Class, to maintain their privileged positions forever.

The collision with the iceberg dashed all of these dreams simultaneously, and the subsequent transformation of character of the passengers and crew had, it seemed to me, the potential for great emotional and musical expression onstage."

Stone and Yeston knew that the idea was an unusual subject for a musical. "I think if you don't have that kind of daring damn-the-torpedoes, you shouldn't be in this business. It's the safe-sounding shows that often don't do well. You have to dare greatly, and I really want to stretch the bounds of the kind of expression in musical theater," Yeston explained. 

Yeston saw the story as unique to turn-of-the-century British culture, with its rigid social class system and its romanticization of progress through technology. "In order to depict that on the stage, because this is really a very English show, I knew I would have to have a color similar to the one found in the music of the great composers at that time, like Elgar or Vaughan Williams; this was for me an opportunity to bring in the musical theater an element of the symphonic tradition that I think we really haven't had before. That was very exciting.”

The musical premiered on Broadway on April 23, 1997 and ran for 804 performances before closing on March 21, 1999.

Titanic The Musical features a talented local cast that includes Jesse Daniel Trieger (Frederick Barrett), Kristen Basore (Kate McGowan), Keith Robinson (Captain EJ Smith), Brandon Maldonado (Thomas Andrews), William Macke (Frederick Fleet/Benjamin Guggenheim), Bill Hafner (J. Bruce Ismay), Paul Lee (Isidor Strauss) and Jack Miller (Jim Farrell).  

FULL CASTING

Frederick Barrett -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse Daniel Trieger

Harold Bride ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nick Van Atta

Frederick Fleet/Benjamin Guggenheim ---------------------------------------------------- William Macke

Wallace Hartley/Joseph Bell ---------------------------------------------------------- Adam James Cooper

Thomas Andrews/The Major ------------------------------------------------------------ Brandon Maldonado

J. Bruce Ismay ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Hafner

Captain E.J. Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Robinson

Kate McGowan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kristen Basore

Jim Farrell/John Thayer/Boxhall ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Miller

Murdoch/J.J. Astor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thor Collard

Alice Beane -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ciera Bierbaugh

Edgar Beane/Lightoller -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Clay

Henry Etches/Pitman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Weston McAloney

Charlotte Drake Cardoza ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Gellman

Isidor Strauss --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Lee

Ida Strauss ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wendy Cohen

Charles Clarke/George Widener --------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Murdock

Caroline Neville --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taryn Hammond

Eleanor Widener ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emma Macesich

Marion Thayer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mina Foreman

Kate Mullins/Mme. Aubert --------------------------------------------------------------------- Grace Rinehart

Kate Murphey/Madeleine Astor --------------------------------------------------------------- Kara Hancock

Bellboy/Frank Carlson/JH Rogers ---------------------------------------------------------- Johnny Robison

Hitchens/Bandsman Bricoux ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Tate

Edith Corse Evans ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Loar

Jack Thayer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eli Wilson

CALENDAR LISTING

Titanic The Musical- SRO Theatre Company, Columbus Performing Arts Center Van Fleet Theatre, 549 Franklin Ave.

Contact: 614-427-3324, <http://www.srotheatre.org>   <http://www.srotheatre.org> www.srotheatre.org

Details: Based on the real-life passengers and crew aboard the ill-fated ocean liner, Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s stunning musical focuses on their hopes and aspirations.

Showtimes: 8 p.m. Thursday Feb. 15 (preview), 8 p.m. Friday Feb. 16, 8 p.m. Saturday Feb.17, 2 p.m. Sunday Feb. 18,  10:30 a.m and 8 p.m. Friday Feb. 24, 8 p.m. Saturday Feb. 25, 2 p.m. Sunday Feb. 26.

Tickets: $25, $22 for students and senior citizens, $20 preview

ABOUT SRO THEATRE COMPANY

Committed to producing both classic and contemporary works that break cultural and generational boundaries, SRO Theatre Company continues to operate as one of Columbus' oldest not-for-profit theaters.  In SRO’s 33-year history, it has won international acclaim for the quality of its productions, its depth and diversity and the excellence of its many community programs.

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