Titanic, The Musical....sounds kind of morbid at first. The 1997 play won the Tony for best musical. It ran on Broadway....(I can't hear that word with thinking of Matthew 7:11...."Enter ye at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat"....it ran for two years....eight hundred and some performances....and then went on tour....none of which I had seen or even been interested in....but I went tonight to this limited showing.....two days....of the play on film....by myself....for my wife had a previous engagement.
So it wasn't morbid....it was moving. I'll only relate one scene. This would have been Sunday April 14, 1912....and Captain Smith gathered around a smattering of cast members in a church service of some sort to sing....which they did....one hymn....and the captain announced that afterwards there will be some jazzy popular music....which they moved to rather quickly. So everyone was dancing when the ship shook from grazing the iceberg. Well that's the director's take on it anyway....but the shift from hymns to entertainment was obvious.
The musical numbers were good....as was the acting. Some of the actors had double roles....but there was to me anyway one very interesting cast member. I could not verify this before typing this post....and I tried.....but one of the main stewardesses...(that's what they called them....female stewards)....one of them....in this a very bit role....looked like....and I'm almost sure that it was....Nan Gurley....who played Corrie Ten Boom....in the play turned film The Hiding Place that I a few months ago posted five times on....for I felt that the message was so important for us to hear again today!
Twelve hours from now pastors will be entering their pulpits. Right now as I type....roughly 10:30 in the evening....they are either in bed praying with tears for words to bring to the souls in their congregation....Iceberg Dead Ahead....would be a topical title....or they are watching Alabama vs LSU on TV.....their 'sermons' already prepared.
May God have mercy upon us....as we are totally taken over by our entertainments....and this as biblical prophecy is playing out right before us on the world's stage. May He take sleep from His faithful stewards this night....and may His Holy Spirit endue them with power to awaken all of us!
Note: That wonderful play turned into a film....The Hiding Place....the 2023 version....appears to be available to stream at....thehidingplacefilm.com.
