- Titanic the musical opened on Broadway on April 23, 1997, and ran for 804 performances before closing on March 21, 1999.
- The musical won five Tony Awards including Best Musical, and features music and lyrics by Maury Yeston with a book by Peter Stone.
- The story is based on the RMS Titanic, which famously sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912.
- Composer Maury Yeston was inspired to create the musical after the discovery of the Titanic wreckage in 1985, seeing it as a chance to explore human ambition and dreams.
- Titanic the musical premiered in 1997, the same year as James Cameron's film 'Titanic', but the two are unrelated.
- The original Broadway production featured elaborate set designs including a lobby in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre decorated with the complete Titanic passenger list.
- The musical's orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick, won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations.
- The Dutch touring production of the musical 'Titanic' was the first to premiere in Europe, opening on September 23, 2001, at Royal Theatre Carre in Amsterdam.
- The German production of 'Titanic' introduced a new song titled 'Drei Tage' (Three Days) which, although not included in the cast album, was released on a German karaoke CD.
- Maury Yeston, the composer of 'Titanic', attended two performances of the musical in Belfast, Northern Ireland, timed with the anniversary date of the Titanic's sinking.
- The Toronto Civic Light Opera's production of 'Titanic' in February 2006 featured a newly imagined staging without the original 'slanted set' design.
- Titanic's 2006 Australian production made its UK debut at York Theatre Royal before moving to the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage for its London premiere.
- The musical 'Titanic' has been translated into nine languages including Japanese, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, and Hungarian.
- A filmed version of the 10th anniversary UK tour of 'Titanic' was captured live and broadcasted in over 700 movie theaters in the USA, then streamed on BroadwayHD.
- The first-ever production of 'Titanic' in the Republic of Ireland was performed by Ballinrobe Musical Society in February 2008.
- In the 2023 UK tour, a new sequence was added depicting First Officer Murdoch’s suicide, which was a significant deviation from the original script.
- The concert production of 'Titanic' in Australia in November 2022 starred Anthony Warlow as Captain Smith.
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