Overview
- Titanique began its 16-week limited engagement on Sunday, April 12, and runs through July 12 at the 1,339-seat St. James Theatre.
- Built as a campy jukebox parody, the show reframes James Cameron’s Titanic through an omnipresent Céline Dion narrator and a catalog of her hits woven into the story.
- The Broadway cast features Marla Mindelle as Céline Dion, Jim Parsons as Ruth DeWitt Bukater, Melissa Barrera as Rose, Constantine Rousouli as Jack, Deborah Cox as Molly Brown, John Riddle as Cal, Frankie Grande as Victor Garber, and Layton Williams as the Iceberg.
- Early notices praise the crowd-pleasing energy and standout turns, repeatedly citing Mindelle’s precision Dion send-up, Cox’s roof-raising All By Myself, and Williams’s Tina Turner–style Iceberg number.
- Several critics question whether the material feels thin at Broadway scale, noting a pop-concert design with an onstage band and upgraded lighting that boosts spectacle but tests the show’s once-intimate, scrappy vibe.