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Titanic

Dec 13, 2016 – Jan 29, 2017
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Come aboard the ship of dreams in this Tony Award®-winning Best Musical—a heart-stopping and riveting ride through the final moments of Titanic’s fateful journey.

In this stunning, 360-degree production, Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer plunges you into the middle of the glamour, chaos, heroism and, ultimately, in the spirit of the most infamous ship of all time. With a lush, unforgettable score and a cast, orchestra and crew of more than 50 artists, Titanic will be the theatrical event of the season!

Story and Book by Peter Stone
Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston

Performance Information

  • Running Time

    Running time is approximately two hours and twenty minutes, with one fifteen-minute intermission.

  • Effects Warnings

    Contains live gunshots, theatrical smoke and haze.

  • Plan Your Visit

    Plan to Arrive Early: Due to the unique immersive staging of the show, for actor and patron safety, late seating and reseating will be extremely limited – wait times to enter the Theatre could be up to 25 minutes if you are late or leave the performance. Please arrive promptly for boarding. Once Titanic sets sail it’s anchors away!

Specialty Nights

Discussion Nights

January 4 & 10, 2017

Pride Night

January 6, 2017

Open Captioned Performances

January 15, 2017 at 2PM and January 17, 2016 at 7:30PM

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Cast Members

Hasani Allen

Jim Farrell, Stoker, 1st Class Passenger

SIGNATURE: A Face in the Crowd, Light Years (reading). DC AREA: Toby’s Dinner Theater: Sister Act; Red Branch Theater: Heathers; 1st Stage Theater: Floyd Collins; Keegan Theater: American Idiot; NextStop Theater: Kiss Me, Kate; No Rules Theater Co.: Unlimited: Music and Lyrics of Stephen Schwartz; Atlas PAC: Sing Down the Moon. REGIONAL: Walnut Street Theater: Peter Pan, Finian’s Rainbow. EDUCATION: Catholic University.

Iyona Blake

Iyona Blake

Caroline Neville, Stewardess, 1st Class Passenger

SIGNATURE: Ain't Misbehavin' (Armelia McQueen), Scottsboro Boys (The Lady understudy), Titanic (Caroline Neville), Jelly’s Last Jam (Gran Mimi). OFF-BROADWAY: June Havoc Theater & Terrace Theater/Kennedy Center: Soul on Fire the Musical (Gabriel/Eva Mae). DC AREA: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Lady Day), The Mistress Cycle (Lulu White), The Wizard of Oz (Glinda), Blues in the Night (The Lady), Caroline, or Change (Caroline Thibodeaux), Once on This Island (Asaka), Shout! The Mod Musical (Green Girl), Thunder Knocking on the Door (Good Sister);Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Armelia McQueen), Black Nativity (As Cast). AWARDS: 2017 Helen Hayes Award Winner for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical, BroadwayWorld’s Washington, DC Award Winner for Best Actress in a Musical for a Small Professional Theater. www.iyonablake.com
Christopher Bloch

Christopher Bloch

E.J. Smith

SIGNATURE: The Bridges of Madison County, Into the Woods, Assassins, Grand Hotel, The Scottsboro Boys, Titanic, Kid Victory, Cloak and Dagger, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Chess, Les Misérables, Merrily We Roll Along, Urinetown. NATIONAL TOUR: The Buddy Holly Story. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Trip to Bountiful, My Lord, What a Night, 12 Angry Men, Ragtime, Jefferson’s Garden, 1776, Meet John Doe, Shenandoah, Big River, Christmas Carol; Arena Stage: Christmas Carol 1941, Damn Yankees, Black No More; Everyman: M Butterfly, God of Carnage, ART, Uncle Vanya, Jaques Brel…; Olney Theatre, Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre. REGIONAL: Lyric Theater, Guthrie Theatre, Virginia Stage, ACT, Repertory Theatre St. Louis, Indiana Rep., 2012 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. FILM/TV: West Wing, House of Cards, TURN, Butler MN, Damascus Road, WCBDC!, Star Wars audio (Lucas Productions). 

Sean Burns

Bell Boy, 3rd Class Passenger

SIGNATURE: Elmer Gantry. TOURING/CRUISE: Peter Pan 360 National Tour (Michael Darling); Disney Cruiseline (Peter Pan). DC AREA: Keegan Theatre: Spring Awakening; Kennedy Center: Defiant Requiem; Atlas Theatre: Treemonisha, Pirates of Penzance; Dissonance Dance Theatre: Cinema. REGIONAL: Seven Angels Theatre: Legally Blonde, Footloose; Ocean City Theatre Company: James and The Giant Peach (James), Damn Yankees, West Side Story; The Palace Theatre: West Side Story; Winnipesaukee Playhouse: Cabaret.

Matt Conner

Charles Lightoller, 3rd class passenger

SIGNATURE: The Fix (Frankie/Ensemble), Elmer Gantry (Art Nichols), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Rufus/Senator Wingwoah), Hairspray (Male Authority Figure), Sunset Boulevard (Manfred), Sweeney Todd (Bird Seller/Jonas Fogg), Show Boat (Windy), Les MisÈrables (Thenardier, Pimp), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Aurelio), Merrily We Roll Along (Scottie), The Witches of Eastwick (Toby), Into the Woods (Steward), My Fair Lady (Cockney), Assassins (Hinckley), Pacific Overtures (Tamate, Lion Dancer), A Funny Thing…Forum (Protean). DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: West Side Story (Riff); Synetic Theatre: Oscar Wilde’s Salome (Page of Herodias); ATW: Naked Boys Singing; Open Circle Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas). COMPOSITIONS: Signature: Silver Belles, Crossing, The Hollow, Nevermore, Partial Eclipse; Regional: Night of the Living Dead, Turn of the Screw, Monsters of the Villa Diodati.
Erin Driscoll

Erin Driscoll

Kate Murphey, Stewardess, 1st Class Passenger

she/her SIGNATURE: Titanic, Road Show, Sunday in the Park with George, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon, Spin, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse…, Brother Russia, Hairspray (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble), [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Witches of Eastwick, Into the Woods, Assassins (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Resident Musical), Urinetown (2006 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Actress). DC AREA: Arena Stage: My Fair Lady; Ford’s Theatre: Into the Woods, Violet, Our Town, Parade, A Christmas Carol; Olney Theatre: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cinderella, Anything Goes; Round House Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad; Kennedy Center: Regina (w/ Patti LuPone). REGIONAL: Arden Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad, Candide. EDUCATION: James Madison University, BM. AWARDS: 2006 Roger Sturtevant Award.
Jamie Eacker

Jamie Eacker

Kate Mullins, Stewardess, 1st Class Passenger

SIGNATURE: Titanic, Freaky Friday, Girlstar, The Fix, Cabaret, Elmer Gantry, The Threepenny Opera, Beaches, Spin, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Xanadu, Hairspray, Chess, Revenge of the Understudies, A Matt Conner’s Christmas. OFF-BROADWAY: Elephant and Piggie’s: We Are In A Play! NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL TOUR: Phoenix Entertainment: Grease (China), The Kennedy Center: Phantom Tollbooth, E&P: We Are In A Play! DC AREA: Shakespeare Gala as Elizabeth McGovern; ArtsCentric: Delilah (Delilah); Teatro101: The Wild Party (Queenie); Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Studio Theatre: Grey Gardens, Carrie; Totem Pole: Leader of The Pack; Washington Savoyards: The Music Man; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Hairspray, Aida, The Wizard of Oz, George M! EDUCATION: AMDA of NYC www.jamieeacker.com
Florence Lacey

Florence Lacey

Ida Straus, 3rd Class Passenger

SIGNATURE: Titanic, Sunset Boulevard, Ace, Saving Aimee, Nevermore, The Rhythm Club, The Gospel According to Fishman, Follies, One Red Flower. BROADWAY: Follies, Evita, The Grand Tour, Hello, Dolly!, Les Misérables, An Evening with Jerry Herman. OFF-BROADWAY: Sweet Feet, Elizabeth and Essex, Styne After Styne, Under the Bridge. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Follies, Sunday in the Park with George; Creative Cauldron: Kaleidoscope. REGIONAL: Goodspeed: Pal Joey; Connecticut Rep: A Little Night Music, Wings. AWARDS: Theater World, MAC, Drama Logue, Critics Outer Circle.  

Nick Lehan

Harold Bride, Joseph Bell, Hartley

SIGNATURE: The Fix, Elmer Gantry, Company, Sycamore Trees (u/s), Ain’t Got No Cabaret. NATIONAL TOUR: Peter and the Starcatcher. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Camelot (in concert); Olney Theatre Center: Cinderella, Joseph…, Big River; Studio Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Keegan Theatre: Spring Awakening, RENT; Washington Savoyards: Grand Night for Singing; Toby’s: Spamalot (2015 Helen Hayes Nominee- Featured Actor), Pirates of Penzance, Aida. EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America. @nlehan

Sam Ludwig

Frederick Barrett, 1st class passenger, 3rd class passenger

Sam Ludwig SIGNATURE: A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Midwestern Gothic, Titanic (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical), The Hollow, [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, Partial Eclipse, Les Misérables. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: How to Succeed... (Helen Hayes Award, Lead Actor in a Musical), Avenue Q, Big River, 1776; Theatre J: Sons of the Prophet; Ford’s Theatre: 1776; 1st Stage: The Farnsworth Invention (Helen Hayes nomination for the Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play), Proof; MetroStage: Jacques Brel is Alive...; Rep Stage: Speech and Debate; Theatre J: Sons of the Prophet; Creative Cauldron: Monsters of the Villa Diodati (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical); 3D Theatricals: The Secret Garden.
Kevin McAllister

Kevin McAllister

William Murdoch

SIGNATURE: Blackbeard, Grand Hotel, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Helen Hayes nomination), A Little Night Music, Titanic, SCKBSTRD, Brother Russia, The Break, Show Boat, Sweeney Todd. BROADWAY: Caroline, or Change; Come from Away. DC AREA: Round House Theatre: Next to Normal; Washington National Opera: Lost In The Stars; Ford’s Theatre: The Wiz, Ragtime (Helen Hayes winner, Best Actor in a Musical), 110 In The Shade, Freedom’s Song, …Spelling Bee, Violet (Helen Hayes nomination), Our Town, Parade (Helen Hayes nomination), The Civil War; Arena Stage: Five Guys Named Moe; Olney: The World Goes Round, Annie (Helen Hayes nomination), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Kennedy Center: 2013 Gala, James and the Giant Peach, The Phantom Tollbooth; CenterStage: Expanding the Cycle Series; Toby’s: Rent, Dreamgirls, Ragtime (Helen Hayes winner, Best Actor in a Musical); Teatro 101: Brooklyn, Side Show, The Wild Party; Artistic Director, ArtsCentric, Inc. REGIONAL: Sacramento Music Circus: Ragtime. AWARDS: 2016 and 2018 Helen Hayes Award, Best Lead Actor in A Musical; Broadway World’s Performer of The Decade (2020).

Katie McManus

Kate McGowan, 1st class passenger

SIGNATURE: Chess, Sweeney Todd, The Happy Time, The Break. DC AREA: Creative Cauldron: Ruthless!, And the World Goes ‘Round, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well…; NextStop: City of Angels, Into the Woods, Seussical; Keegan: RENT, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Man of No Importance, Man of La Mancha, National Pastime; Studio Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Shakespeare Theatre: Two Gentlemen of Verona: a Rock Opera; Ford’s Theatre: Violet (swing). CABARET: The Divine Miss McM. OTHER: Kennedy Center: Songs of My Family (Guest Soloist, Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC).

Christopher Mueller

Christopher Mueller

Henry Etches, Pitman

he/him SIGNATURE: Pacific Overtures, She Loves Me, Simply Sondheim, Assassins, Blackbeard, Passion, Titanic, The Fix, Crossing, Miss Saigon, Spin, Brother Russia, Chess, Sweeney Todd, The Hollow, The Boy Detective Fails, Giant, Kiss of the Spider Woman. NEW YORK: LaGuardia Arts: Chess in Concert. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, A Christmas Carol, Ragtime; The Kennedy Center: Camelot in Concert, My Fair Lady in Concert; Olney Theatre Center: My Fair Lady, Carousel, Godspell, Spring Awakening; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Two Gentlemen of Verona (a rock opera); Arena Stage: Redhand Guitar Workshop, Skindiver Reading; Imagination Stage: Dr. Doolittle, Disney's Mulan; Adventure Theatre: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Keegan Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee, RENT. EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America; The London Dramatic Academy. IG: @christopher_mueller
Tracy Lynn Olivera

Tracy Lynn Olivera

Alice Beane, 3rd class passenger

SIGNATURE: …Forum, Assassins, A Little Night Music (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical), Titanic, The Fix; Gypsy; Crossing; Company; Hello, Dolly! (Ford’s Theatre co-production); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Brother Russia; The Hollow; The Boy Detective Fails; Les Misérables; ACE; The Happy Time; Merrily We Roll Along; Allegro; Follies; Side Show; Sweeney Todd. BROADWAY: Ragtime (2009 revival). DC AREA: Round House Theatre: Next to Normal. Kennedy Center: Ragtime, Sunday in the Park..., Passion, Merrily We Roll Along; Arena Stage: Fiddler on the Roof, Damn Yankees; Shakespeare Theatre: Candide; Ford’s Theatre: Ragtime, 110 in the Shade (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical); Olney Theatre: Beauty and the Beast, Matilda, On the Town; Studio Theatre: Bachelorette. REGIONAL: Goodman Theatre: Candide. RECORDINGS: Because (solo LP).
Lawrence Redmond

Lawrence Redmond

J. Bruce Ismay

SIGNATURE: Ragtime, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, Assassins, Blackbeard, Grand Hotel, Passion, Titanic, The Fix, Elmer Gantry, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Over and Over, A Stephen Sondheim Evening, Working, Sunday in the Park with George, No Way to Treat a Lady (1998 Helen Hayes Award),Three Nights in Tehran, The Rink (1997 Helen Hayes Award), Passion, Cabaret. DC AREA: Ford's Theater: Little Shop of Horrors, Twelve Angry Men; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing; Arena Stage: The Great Society, Intelligence, All the Way, Ruined, Passion Play; Round House Theatre: Quixote Nuevo; Olney Theatre Center: Miss You Like Hell; AWARDS: 2023 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, 2023 Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in Theatre, seven additional Helen Hayes nominations; Multiple DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Artist Fellowships (9/12/25-19/13/12) www.lawrenceredmond.com 

Chris Sizemore

Charles Clarke, 1st class passenger

SIGNATURE: Midwestern Gothic, Titanic, Crossing, Miss Saigon, Spin, Crossing in concert, Spin, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Show Boat (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble), Les Misérables (Helen Hayes nomination for Supporting Actor, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble). NATIONAL TOUR: Kennedy Center: Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Fiddler; Ford's Theatre: Freedom’s Song, Violet, 1776, Parade, The Civil War (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble); Shakespeare Theatre: Two Gents...Rock Opera, Candide (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Ensemble); Olney Theatre Center: 1776, Fiddler, Cinderella; Toby's: Miss Saigon, Beauty & The Beast, Grease, Seussical. REGIONAL: Serenbe Playhouse: Miss Saigon.
Bobby Smith

Bobby Smith

Thomas Andrews

he/him SIGNATURE: No Place to Go, She Loves Me, Midnight at The Never Get, Assassins, Grand Hotel, Passion, Light Years, A Little Night Music, Titanic, Simply Sondheim, Company, Midwestern Gothic, Road Show, Threepenny Opera, Disney's Freaky Friday, La Cage aux Folles (Helen Hayes Award), Spin (Helen Hayes Award). BROADWAY: Crazy for You. OFF-BROADWAY: Forever Plaid, The World Goes ‘Round, Of Thee I Sing. NATIONAL TOURS: Brigadoon, The World Goes ‘Round. DC AREA: Theater J: Two Jews Walk Into a War; Studio Theatre: Fun Home, A Class Act; The Long Christmas Ride Home; Caroline, or Change; Grey Gardens; Reefer Madness; Jerry Springer: The Opera; Ford’s Theatre: Elmer Gantry, Liberty Smith, 1776, Violet; Metrostage: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Helen Hayes Award). AWARDS: 2018 Anderson/Hopkins award.
Stephen Gregory Smith

Stephen Gregory Smith

Frederick Fleet, Frank Carlson, Stoker

SIGNATURE: Midwestern Gothic, Titanic, The Fix, Elmer Gantry, Miss Saigon, Whorehouse, Brother Russia (Prince Felix), Hairspray (Corny Collins), The Boy Detective Fails (Billy Argo), Sunset Boulevard, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Into the Woods (Jack), My Fair Lady, Assassins (Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald), Pacific Overtures, The Highest Yellow, One Red Flower (Billy), Allegro (Charlie), 110 in the Shade (Jimmy, 2004 Helen Hayes Award). DC AREA: DCAC: High Fidelity (Rob); Studio Theatre: Adding Machine: A Musical (SHRDLU), MetroStage: tick, tick…BOOM! (Jon); Ford’s Theatre: 110 in the Shade, Freedom's Song, Violet, The Civil War, Meet John Doe; Arena Stage: Oliver!, Damn Yankees; Kennedy Center: First You Dream, Regina; Olney Theatre Center: Avenue Q (Nicky/Trekkie).  

Russell Sunday

Edgar Beane, Boxhall, 3rd class passenger

SIGNATURE: Elmer Gantry, Brother Russia, The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble). DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Jerry Springer: The Opera (Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding Ensemble); MetroStage: Closer than Ever, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!); Theatre J: David in Shadow and Light; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Jekyll and Hyde (2003 Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Male Lead), Sweeney Todd, Titanic, Aida, Miss Saigon, Kiss Me, Kate, Beauty and the Beast, Damn Yankees, Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel.
John Leslie Wolfe

John Leslie Wolfe

Isidor Straus, Hitchens, 3rd class passenger

SIGNATURE: Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes, Passion, Titanic, West Side Story, The Threepenny Opera. BROADWAY: Parade, Passion, Evita, Sarava. NY CITY OPERA: Brigadoon, A Most Happy Fella. NATIONAL COMPANIES: Bright Star, The Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas), Parade, Martin Guerre, Evita, Cabaret. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Passion, Golden Child; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, Elmer Gantry, Captains Courageous, To Kill a Mockingbird, Christmas Carol; Round House Theatre: Our Town; Olney Theatre Center: Oh Coward. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Opera House: Heartbeats; Austin Musicals: Annie; Penn Center Stage: Sweeney Todd; Syracuse Stage: Closer Than Ever. FILM: The Invasion, Invincible, Step Up, Distinguished Gentleman. TV: Netflix: House of Cards; HBO: Something The Lord Made, The Wire, Homicide; NBC: The West Wing.

Creative Team

Press Reviews

The tension and pathos of Titanic the musical resound more potently in the intimate environment Schaeffer masterminds than perhaps ever before

The Washington Post

An incredibly moving, intimate production brought to life by a fantastic cast.

BroadwayWorld

A legendary production

DC Theatre Scene

Epic refined splendor

DCMetroTheaterArts

Dine Aboard Titanic

Head to Ali’s Bar in The Mead Lobby on the 2nd floor to enjoy a Titanic inspired menu, including salmon beurre blanc, ratatouille, and punch romaine – a special drink served on the ship. For the full menu, click here. Don’t Wait in Line. Pre-Order Intermission Food and Drinks! Grab an order form at the bar and pre-order food and drinks for intermission. A favorite treat you’ll want to make sure you add—our warm housemade cookies.

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