Last night I saw a production of the musical Titanic, which apparently won a Tony award back when it came out in the mid 90's. I thought it was a cut above the average musical, with engaging characters and enjoyable songs. Obviously there's not a lot of suspense about what is going to happen, and the scale of the tragedy will always make it easy to generate pathos in its telling. The play focuses on a handful of characters from the groups of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class passengers as well as the ship's crew, its captain, its builder, and its owner, and it deftly sketches out their various personalities. I enjoyed it quite a bit.