West Kirby Light Operatic Society to stage Titanic The Musical in Liverpool next June

Jan 26 2012 Flintshire Chronicle

WEST Kirby Light Operatic Society will once again stage the multi award-winning Broadway production Titanic - The Musical at the Liverpool Empire from June 5-9.

In the centenary year of the ship’s tragic sinking, WKLOS sail home with the musical they last performed in 2005 for a fitting and momentous occasion as part of Liverpool’s Titanic 1912-2012 programme of events.

The sinking of the Titanic in the early hours of April 15, 1912, remains the quintessential true-disaster story.

A total of 1,517 men, women and children lost their lives, with only 711 surviving.

The reality of the finest, largest, strongest ship in the world they called ‘unsinkable’, hit disaster during its maiden voyage.

Yet when Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s Titanic – The Musical was launched on Broadway in 1997, it didn’t sink – it soared!

At the 1997 Tony Awards, it swept the board, winning an astonishing five statuettes.

Maury Yeston, writer of music and lyrics for Titanic – The Musical , sent a personal note to WKLOS which said: “Titanic was not only registered in Liverpool, we know her bell – as well as her 900 portholes – was crafted by a firm in St Helens.Š

“And we know that most of the crew was also made up of Liverpool natives, and the long corridor on Deck E was known as ‘Scotland Road’, after the Scouse thoroughfare.”

Titanic The Musical can be seen at the Liverpool Empire from June 5-9. Call 0844 372 7272 or visit www.liverpoolempire.org.uk.