Overview
- Titanique, which officially opened Sunday at the St. James Theatre, begins a limited Broadway run through July 12 with a 100-minute, no‑intermission format.
- The show recasts James Cameron’s Titanic as a Céline Dion jukebox parody led by Marla Mindelle, folding hits like My Heart Will Go On and All By Myself into the plot with fresh arrangements by Nicholas James Connell and a punchy live band.
- The Broadway cast features Jim Parsons as Ruth, Deborah Cox as Molly Brown, Melissa Barrera as Rose, Constantine Rousouli as Jack, Frankie Grande as Victor Garber, John Riddle as Cal, and Layton Williams as The Iceberg.
- Reviews highlight bigger production values that keep the downtown vibe, with concert-style staging, light-up stairs, and performers working the aisles to sustain the show’s interactive feel.
- Critics widely call it gleeful, silly, and crowd-pleasing while noting the humor’s hit-or-miss nature, and many frame its journey from a supermarket-basement lark to Olivier-recognized runs and now Broadway as part of camp’s move into the mainstream.