Titanic (musical) Titanic (musical) Titanic is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that opened on Broadway in 1997. It swept the 1997 musical Tony Awards winning all five it was nominated for including the award for Best Musical and Best Score (Yeston's second for both). "Titanic" is set on the ocean liner RMS "Titanic" which sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. 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
Musicians of the RMS Titanic 250654, the ticket for all the members of Wallace Hartley's orchestra. His cabin was second class, and he was the only Belgian musician aboard the "Titanic". After the "Titanic" hit an iceberg and began to sink, Krins and his fellow band members assembled in the first class lounge and started playing music to help keep the passengers calm. They later moved to the forward half of the boat deck, where they continued to play as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Krins was 23 years old when he died. His body was never recovered. Two documentary films have been made about