When the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian love with the eleven-time Oscar-winning film Titanic, you get Titanique, a musical celebration that turns one of the greatest love stories of all time into a hysterical and joyful slay-fest. Featuring powerhouse voices and show-stopping numbers (plus, contemporary pop culture and punchy odes to the 90s film), Titanique is a one-of-a-kind musical voyage bursting with nostalgia & heart. It's a pure love letter comedy, fun and all things joyful!
Outrageously funny Mindelle plays Celine as an omniscient narrator who, we learn during a Titanic museum tour at the start, is actually 150 years old and was onboard the ship with our favorite characters. Sure! She pops in every so often to gloriously upstage everybody else. Mindelle’s performance is a sensational, hilarious and deranged turn that rises above a 2 a.m. Las Vegas impression. Yes, if you are a big Celine fan like, ahem, a certain tabloid newspaper critic is, you’ll howl at the actress’ borrowed Celine-isms from old viral YouTube videos and banter from the “A New Day Live” album. But the performance — conversational, occasionally improvised and quite affectionate — is more than mockery.
Eventually “Titanique” comes into its own as it revs up into increasing absurdity and the actors try to out-ham one another. Contrast that with Michael Kinnan’s one-man retelling of “Titanic,” “Never Let Go”: If that production captured the emotion running through both the movie and the feeling of watching it, this one doubles down on “Titanic” and Dion as modern camp icons.
2022 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Return Production Off-Broadway |
2022 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Return Engagement Off-Broadway |
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Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2023 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Marla Mindelle |
2023 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Musical | Titanique |
2023 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Tye Blue |
2023 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | Marla Mindelle |
2023 | The Lortels | Outstanding Choreographer | Ellenore Scott |
2023 | The Lortels | Outstanding Costume Design | Alejo Vietti |
2023 | The Lortels | Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical | John Riddle |
2023 | The Lortels | Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical | Marla Mindelle |
2023 | The Lortels | Outstanding Musical | Titanique |
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