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What happens when you stage a spectacle without the spectacle?
Hydraulics, when they worked,tilted the stageto simulate sinking.
Under Anne Kauffmans direction, however, you will have to imagine the ship of dreams.
Unlike some recent Encores!
tradition, positioned in rudimentary arrangements.
The staging gestures are simple.
A coffee cart skids across the stage as the ship tilts.
The result is more of a pageant occasionally stirring, but more often than not idling in stasis.
What am I going to tell them now?!
You may as well write that, in conclusion, theTitanicwas a land of contrasts.
Yeston, who also co-wroteNineandGrand Hotel, melds orchestra depth with touches of ragtime and Irish folk music.
Chip Zien and Judy Kuhn as those doomed Strauses!
Titanicis at New York City Center through June 23.
