The Loading of the Lifeboats

This scene orginally followed "The Blame".

Lightoller: Women and children will commence boarding the boats.
Murdoch: Women and children only. Men will please stand back.
Bellboy: 42 places remaining in boat number one on the starboard side.
Astor: What in God’s name is going on here?
Guggenheim: This is absurd. This ship could smash into a 100 icebergs and we wouldn’t feel it.
Mrs. Thayer: I’ve never been in an open boat in my entire life.
Caroline: Charles?
Charles: Yes, darling?
Caroline: You really don’t suppose this could be anything serious, do you?
Edith Corse Evans: Last week in Vienna, a fortune teller told me to beware of the water.
Captain: Mr. Lightoller, swing the number one boat away from the side.
Lightoller: Hold on, Captain, number one still has room for another 40 people.
Captain: We can’t wait, Mr. Lightoller, we have another 19 boats to launch. Lower away number one.
Murdoch: The six boat is away; the ten boat is away.
Bellboy: 57 places remaining in boat 8 on the port side.
J Yates: Mrs. Cardoza, I’d be very grateful if you’d deliver this letter to my sister in Ohio. I want her to know I was aboard this ship.
Cardoza: I’m sure your name is on the passenger’s list, Mr. Rogers.
J Yates: My actual name is J. Yates.
Mrs. Widener: As long as there’s heat and light, I’m staying right here.
Cardoza: I’ve actually been playing bridge with J. Yates, the most famous card sharper on the Atlantic and to think I won several 100 dollars from you.
J Yates: Our game was interrupted.
Mrs. Widener: George, look at that lifeboat--it’s number 13!
Lightoller: Ladies, please, you must get into the boats right away.
Aubert: Benjamin, I’m afraid. You’re coming with me, aren’t you?
Guggenheim: I’m sorry, my dear, but it’s quite impossible. I must be a gentleman.
Lightoller: Mr. Strauss, surely noone would mind if you took a place.
Strauss: No, no. I will not go before the younger men. We will wait.
Fleet: Captain!
Captain: Who are you, boy?
Murdoch: Fleet, sir. Second lookout.
Fleet: I’ve seen a ship, sir, south/southeast--maybe 6 miles off.
Captain: A ship! Thank God!
Alice Beane: Edgar, I can’t believe this is really happening.

TO BE CONTINUED....

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All text and lyrics to Peter Stone and Maury Yeston, 1997.