"Titanic" the Musical Looking for Performers

Tenor (A2-G4). Slight Irish accent, not a heavy brogue. Strong yet quiet, and full of integrity, he is the moral compass and intellectual barometer of the show. Sings multiple solos, including the gut-wrenching climactic ‘Andrews’ Vision’ as the ship sinks onstage.

Baritone (A2-G4). British. Chairman and owner of the White Star Line. Plays the role of misguided villain in the show. High-brow, aloof, easily frustrated when disregarded, carries the burden and anxiety that goes with leadership. Featured singer in several songs including ‘The Blame’.

Baritone (Bflat-F4). Stage age 50s/60s. British. A fatherly figure with white hair and beard, he commands with deep care for his passengers and encouragement toward his younger officers. He takes his responsibility for all the souls aboard very seriously. Featured singer in several songs including ‘The Blame’.

Baritone (C3-F#4). 1 st Officer. Experienced officer who really should have been a captain by now, but wasn’t sure he was up to it. Made the decisions and gave the orders that sealed Titanic’s fate. He wrestles with horrific guilt at the end. Featured singer in several songs, and has a poignant solo in ‘To Be A Captain’.

Baritone (C3-G4). Operator who receives the ice warnings and relayed SOS call. A shy and socially awkward young man. Sings several solos including ‘The Night Was Alive.’

Tenor (A2-G4). He is strappingly strong, keenly intelligent, and capable. He questions the motivations of the powers-that-be to speed up, struggles with the monotony of his occupation. Sings a powerful goodbye to his lost love (one of several solos he carries, including Barrett’s Song).

Tenor (B2-G4). Senior Steward. He sings the lead in ‘Remarkable Age’ and has several scenes that underscore the smooth discretion he must exhibit, and the great pride he takes in his work, always remembering the likes, dislikes, and needs of his “people.” Some might call him stuffy, but he just really cares.

Bass/Baritone (F2-F4). 1 st Class Passenger. Jewish. Owned Macy’s department store.

Bari/Bass (G2-D4). 2 nd Class Passenger. Owns a hardware store in the Midwest, goodhearted, often exasperated, and has a dry wit. Traveling with his wife, Alice.

Tenor (B2-F#4). 2 nd Class Passenger. Aspires to be a journalist in New York City, and has every reason to believe he can succeed. Eloping to America with his love, Caroline.

Baritone (B2-F#4). Farrell is a 3 rd Class Passenger. Love interest of Kate McGowen. He solos in the trapped-in-stairwell scene/song and the Act 1 Finale. Lindsey is a stoker (crew).

Tenor (C3-G4). Lookout, sits in the crow’s nest. Sings the soaring solo lead in ‘No Moon’, and calls out the fateful warning, “Iceberg, right ahead!”

Tenor. Band leader/ Chief Engineer. The Titanic’s orchestra has gone down in history for playing on the boat deck till the very end, to keep the other passengers calm. In the show, all three sing the one lively dance number in the show, Doing the Latest Rag. Sings the haunting Autumn in the 1st class smoke room at the end of act 1, and he in particular must be a confident showman who can hold a crowd in the palm of his hand.

2 nd Officer. Highest ranking officer to survive the sinking. Confident and competent. Significant speaking role.

3 rd Officer/1 st Class Passenger. In the show Pitman has the lion’s share of the solos in the opening number (loading the ship with cargo and introducing passengers). The Major provides comic relief in otherwise tense and controlled dining conversations through his tales of “crazed, godless savages.”

Band member/Quartermaster. The Titanic’s orchestra has gone down in history for playing on the boat deck till the very end, to keep the other passengers calm. In the show, all three sing the one lively dance number in the show, Doing the Latest Rag. Hichens Responsible for steering the ship, and carrying out the helm orders. He was at the wheel on that fateful night and obeyed the famous order “hard a’ starboard” which is the dramatic final tableau in Act 1.

Band member/4 th Officer/Gambler. The Titanic’s orchestra has gone down in history for playing on the boat deck till the very end, to keep the other passengers calm. In the show, all three sing the one lively dance number in the show, Doing the Latest Rag. Boxhall was the one who tried in vain to signal the SS Californian by Morse code and flares. Rogers is a card shark who is smooth and unassuming.

Steward/American Tourist. Through Latimer’s drastically different treatment of the 3 classes that we see the impact of social stratification on the Titanic. Carlson got a flat tire and missed the boat! His lament provides a much-needed moment of comic relief.

1 st Class Passenger. Thayer is the VP of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

1 st Class Passenger. American. Returning to America with young, pregnant wife (Madeline) to give birth to their first child after a honeymoon in Egypt.

1 st Class Passenger. Heir to largest fortune in Philadelphia. Traveling with wife Eleanor.

1 st Class Passenger. American mining and smelting tycoon, was a regular cross-Atlantic traveler. Traveling with mistress Mme. Aubart.

Professional dancer on the ship, who will perform a stunning featured partner dance in Doing the Latest Rag (think lifts, think ballroom, think ragtime), and then teach the 1 st class passengers how to join in. They must be graceful dancers, and exuberant personalities.

Soprano/Mezzo (A3-F#5). Irish. 3 rd Class Passenger. Kate is escaping a big mistake made in Ireland — she is pregnant (although not yet showing) with the child of a married man. She spots Jim Farrell at the dock and manages to secure an engagement in less than 4 days! Requires a powerful actress who can command our attention. Sings the lead in ‘Ladies’ Maid’ and has several other solo sections.

Alto (G3-D5). Jewish. 1 st Class Passenger. Wife to Isadore. Perhaps one of the most poignant and enduring Titanic stories is that of Ida’s refusal to leave Isador on the ship, with the phrase “Where you go, I go.”

Mezzo (G2-D4). 2 nd Class Passenger. A tricky role: comedy wrapped in truth. It requires an actress who can make us laugh by revealing the depths of Alice’s heart, rather than by playing her for comedy. She is like a child playing dress-up; the reality seems absurd but the fantasy is earnest. Traveling with husband, Edgar.

Alto. Irish. 3 rd Class Passenger. A young Irish lass (one of 8 children) traveling on the Titanic to a new life in America where she intended to live with her sister and become a maid. She is overwhelmed by the scope of everything she sees. Sings solos in ‘Ladies’ Maid’, and several other moments.

Professional dancer on the ship, who will perform a stunning featured partner dance in Doing the Latest Rag (think lifts, think ballroom, think ragtime), and then teach the 1 st class passengers how to join in. They must be graceful dancers, and exuberant personalities.

2 nd Class Passenger. Classy and kind – actually born to first class, but eloping to America with her love Charles; she wants nothing more than to be with him, and is more than willing to sacrifice status for love.

Maude is a stewardess attending to 1 st class passengers. Darlene is Barrett’s girlfriend.

Alice is a stewardess attending to 1 st class passengers. Eva is a new bride with babe-in-arms.

Stewardess. Attending to 1 st class passengers.

Stewardess. Attending to 1 st class passengers & nanny to several children.

Loving and attentive mother of Harold Bride, accompanies him to the boat dock to see him off.

1 st Class Passenger. Wife to John Thayer, VP of the Pennsylvania Railroad. From “old money”.

1 st Class Passenger. Wife to JJ Astor (older man). Pregnant. She is very much a naïve child still, while he is fiercely protective of social mores.

1 st Class Passenger. Traveling with husband George, heir to largest fortune in Philadelphia.

1 st Class Passenger. Singer in Paris, traveling with Benjamin Guggenheim as his mistress.

1 st Class Passenger. Booked Titanic’s most expensive suite, and traveled with 14 trunks full of designer clothes, jewels, and 91 pairs of gloves. Free spirit. A big game hunter, a yachtswoman who circumnavigated the world twice, a patron of the arts, and an independent woman who divorced her husband when she learned of his infidelity.

1 st Class Passenger/2 nd Class Passenger. Edith is a single woman, was returning to America alone on the Titanic from a family funeral in England. Susan is a woman emigrating from England to Connecticut to live with her nephew and his wife as their housekeeper.