2011 - 2012
Titanic
She has been called the most famous ship since Noah's Ark...the largest, fastest, most luxurious trans-Atlantic liner of her time...the "unsinkable" ship who, just four days into her maiden voyage, struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 1912. Two hours and forty minutes later the "ship of dreams" was gone, taking over 1,500 souls with her into the freezing depths of the North Atlantic. She is the RMS Titanic, and Orpheus is honoured to mark her 100th anniversary with this exquisite production.
This is not a musical version of the James Cameron movie. Based on real people and events and over ten years in creation, Titanic - The Musical was launched on April 23, 1997, at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it ran for 830 performances and won many accolades - including five Tony Awards - along the way. Since then, it has been performed throughout North America, the UK and Australia and has been translated for successful productions across Europe and in Japan.
Bringing this now-legendary story to the Orpheus stage has been artistically and technically challenging and has required a huge commitment of time, energy and creativity from everyone involved. With its elements of privilege and poverty, of courage and cowardice, of great achievement and catastrophic failure, it is a real-life story that, even a century later, far surpasses any screen or script-writer's imagination.
Artistic DirectorDeb Miller-Smith
Musical Director: Paul Legault
Choreographer, Assistant Artistic Director: Valerie Keenleyside
Cast
Alison Foley Howard
Ensemble
Andrea Kinsley
Marion Thayer, Ensemble
Andriano DeLuca
Steward Latimer, Ensemble
Barb Seabright-Moore
Ida Straus, Ensemble
Ben Blacklock
Ensemble
Bryan Jesmer
J.H. Rogers, Frank Carlson, Ensemble
Chris Hearne
John Jacob Astor, Ensemble
Christine Moran
Alice Beane
Dan DeMarbre
2nd Officer Charles Lightoller, Ensemble
Darren Bird
Charles Clarke
Debbie Kaplan
Miss Damico, Ensemble
Doug Thicke
Ensemble
Elli McKean
Madeline Astor, Ensemble
Emilie O'Brien
Ensemble
Eugene Oscapella
Isidor Straus, Ensemble
Isabella Hearne
Ensemble
Jeremy Sanders
3rd Officer Herbert J. Pitman, Ensemble
Jesse Gervais
Jim Farrell, Mr. Damico, Ensemble
Jim Robertson
Edgar Beane
Jim Tanner
Chief Steward Henry Etches, Ensemble
John Litster
Captain E.J. Smith
Joyce Landry
Eleanor Widener, Ensemble
Justin Hills
Stoker Frederick Barrett
Laura Burk
Charlotte Drake Cardoza, Ensemble
Marie-Hélène Brière
Stewardess Hutchinson, Ensemble
Mary Armstrong
Kate Mullins, Ensemble
Matt Easterbrook
John B. Thayer, Ensemble
Maureen Speer
Edith Corse Evans, Ensemble
Megan Damini
Stewardess Robinson, Ensemble
Michael David
4th Officer Boxhall, Ensemble
Michael McSheffrey
Radioman Harold Bride
Michelle Opthof-Batstone
Caroline Neville
Milton Dover
Lookout Frederick Fleet, Ensemble
Murray Doggett
1st Officer William Murdoch, Ensemble
Nicholas Edge
Jack Thayer, Ensemble
Patrick Leblanc
Bellboy, Ensemble
Rick Burk
The Major, Ensemble
Rob McLeish
George Widener, Ensemble
Sam Smith
Benjamin Guggenheim, Ensemble
Sascha Wiessmeyer
Kate McGowan
Sean Brennan
Chief Engineer Bell, Bandmaster Hartley, Ensemble
Shawn Smith
Quartermaster Hitchens, Bandsman Bricoux, Ensemble
Sophia Marshall
Ensemble
Susan Brown
Madame Aubert, Ensemble
Susanna Atkinson
Kate Murphey, Ensemble
Terry Duncan
Thomas Andrews
Tony Keenleyside
J. Bruce Ismay
Production
Aviva Lightstone
Rehearsal Accompanist
Cheryl Jarvis Woods
Assistant Musical Director
Chris Amott
Lighting Designer
Donna Castonguay
Production Assistant
Drum Hudson
Producer
Heather Forsyth
Stage Manager
J. Taylor Morris
Apprentice Artistic Director
Jean Meldrum
Centrepointe Food Coordinator
Jean Stewart
Co-Scenic Artist
John Cybanski
Sound Designer
John McGovern
Co-Accompanist
Joy Lackey
Wardrobe Supervisor
Judy Froome
Costume Designer, Co-Cutter
Karen Wallace
Hospitality Director
Karole Kidd Witiuk
Costume Production Manager, Co-Cutter
Kerry Price
Hair and Makeup Designer
Margaret Coderre-Williams
Set Designer, Co-Scenic Artist
Maritie Lord
Assistant Stage Manager
Marlene Hudson
Apprentice Producer
Michael Schilder
Assistant Stage Manager
Monique Ecroyd
Props Designer
Steven K. Jones
Technical Director, Master Carpenter
Tiara Wallace
Social Convenor
Wendy Blakey
Wardrobe Supervisor
