So, one of the young women in my laurels class is part of a play called Titanic the musical! The musical on Broadway has won numerous awards such as the Tony award. Her mom is the YW president and bought us all tickets for our ym activity yesterday. I was literally blown away at the talent that these kids have. They are part of a program that is called Acting Up! It is part of a youth program that Orem city has for the kids. They have to try out for the plays, so they have the best of the best!
The talent that these kids have as far as acting, and singing goes is top of the line. It almost brought me to tears to hear them sing all together! It was really amazing! This is a must see and it isn't that expensive to go see! The tickets are $8 per adult and $6 per child! There are only two more days to go see this play, it ends on April 9th! So hurry and buy your tickets while they are available! The play is at the Scera Theatre that is on State Street in Orem!
I told Daniel that I wanted to go see it again because it was so incredible! While it was a depressing story, everyone knows that, I did find out some interesting facts about the Titanic. There were many warnings about the ice berg that the Titanic hit, before they hit it. It's sad that the people in charge weren't paying attention to the warnings of the ice berg. If they did, hitting the ice berg could have been avoided. Back in that day all the people were seperated into "classes" first class, middle class, and third class. You could really tell in the play about how they treated the different classes. The first class got everything, the 5 star treatment. The middle class got not so good treatment, but it was still fair. The third class got what their class was - third class.
When the Titanic was sinking, they gave life jackets to the First class passengers, but not to the second, or third. That was so sad to me. I am glad things have changed, and we do not have classes like that anymore. Anyways, I learned that there were 20 life boats on the Titanic, which was not even close enough to save every person on the ship. There would have to have been 54 life boats on board to save every man, woman, and child that was on the Titanic. There were 713 people who survived the sinking ship, while 1522 of them being the crew, most of the men, and the band had lost their lives. It was heart wrenching to see the wives be pulled away from their husbands knowing that they would probably never see them again.
While there were only 20 life boats on deck, there were 431 available seats left on the lifeboats. That is 431 more people who couldof survived while the ship was sinking. Most of the third class passengers never even made it to the top of the boat to see if they could get a spot on the life boats.
Amist, that this is a sad sad story, the play is totally worth watching! Please go see it!
