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!
Admirers of the movie and of Ms. Dion are obviously the target audience; to get the most out of the show it’s best to be a fanatical double-partisan. I admired the plush cinematic richness of the movie, while deploring its length (the Titanic sank more quickly), and as someone unfamiliar with much of Ms. Dion’s extensive songbook, I was more taken with the sheer loopiness of the show than the blandly “adult contemporary” music. But whether blasting out pop balladry or silly shtick, the engaging cast beams joy at the audience, and receives it in turn, throughout.
“Titanique” delivers. It’s really funny. And it doesn’t matter that the film “Titanic” is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month. Much more important is how alternately silly and nasty and irreverent and delicious the writers Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue are at sending up the current crop of Broadway jukebox musicals and musicals based on classic movies. In other words, “Titanic” the movie may be a quarter century old, but the subject of this stage parody is practically every musical now performing on a Broadway stage.
| 2022 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Return Production Off-Broadway |
| 2022 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway Return Engagement Off-Broadway |
| 2024 | West End |
West End |
| 2026 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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