The Launching: The 1st Class Roster-Matthew Bennett/Victoria Clark/Titanic Ensemble

[ti:The 1st Class Roster] [ar:Matthew Bennett/Victoria Clark/Titanic Ensemble] [al:Titanic: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Launching: The 1st Class Roster - Matthew Bennett/Victoria Clark/Titanic Ensemble [00:00.67]Colonel john jacob astor [00:01.78] [00:02.42]And mrs astor too [00:03.47] [00:04.63]Arriving now from the boat train [00:06.70]Direct from waterloo station [00:07.91] [00:09.05]May procced to their parlour suite [00:11.15]A-62 [00:12.20] [00:15.36]Her name is madeleine [00:16.92]She's john jacob astor's second wife [00:18.78]She's only nineteen years old [00:20.16]And now she's married to a prominent man [00:21.58]Worth over a hundred and fifty million [00:23.42]And twenty-nine years her senior [00:24.84] [00:28.06]They've only been married seven months [00:29.92]She's already seven months pregnant [00:31.42]And the scandal was such [00:32.60]They ran away to europe to avoid the publicity [00:34.22] [00:34.98]Avoid the publicity [00:35.64] [00:36.37]Mr and mrs isidor straus may proceed to parlour suite b-55 [00:40.62] [00:41.38]Aren't they modest [00:42.43]You'd never think by looking at them [00:43.85]That he and his brother own macy's department store [00:45.86]Own macy's department store [00:47.26] [00:47.85]Outright [00:48.17] [00:48.87]And he was very close advisor [00:50.00]To president grover cleveland [00:51.59]And served in the house of representatives [00:52.86]Two full terms [00:53.96]And that's his wife of forty years named ida [00:55.96]Sad she hasn't been well [00:57.75]So the two of them have been wintering [00:59.14]On the french riviera [01:00.22] [01:01.19]French riviera [01:01.93] [01:03.16]Mr benjamin guggenheim and party will find his customary [01:06.74]Suite on a deck [01:07.66] [01:08.35]Made his money by smelting gold [01:09.86]Spends it like water [01:10.94] [01:11.53]Forty-five hundred dollars for [01:13.27]The louis quatorze suite [01:15.04]So he can live in luxurious sin [01:16.65]With his latest mistress [01:18.46]And they call that justice [01:19.54] [01:20.14]They call that justice [01:22.43]Mr and mrs george widener may proceed to promenade suite b-51 [01:26.36] [01:27.64]He's the richest man in philadelphia [01:29.77] [01:30.67]Mr and mrs john b thayer and family promenade suite b-58 [01:34.13] [01:34.73]Vice president of the pennsylvania railroad [01:37.88] [01:38.62]Mrs charlotte drake cardoza suite b-54 [01:42.20] [01:43.54]No one really knows who she is [01:45.40]But the newspaper says she booked [01:46.53]The most expensive suite on the ship [01:48.40]And travels with fourteen steamer trunks [01:49.87]A medicine chest [01:50.90]Her personal pillows and sheets [01:52.29]And four little pekinese dogs [01:53.48] [01:54.58]So she must be somebody [01:55.91] [01:56.45]She must be somebody [01:58.41] [02:00.79]Last call for boarding [02:02.10] [02:03.61]This is the very last call for boarding [02:06.51] [02:09.70]Lift up the ramp [02:10.76]Let go the lines [02:11.54] [02:12.08]Raise up her colours and designs [02:14.16] [02:14.76]Prepare for casting off [02:16.63]And through the port we'll slip [02:20.12]Each person standing at the rail [02:21.93] [02:22.60]Let one great thought prevail [02:24.55]One single prayer [02:25.63] [02:26.91]God bless this noble ship