Playbill on June 3 published videos of the Titanique Broadway cast performing two Céline Dion numbers — Marla Mindelle singing "My Heart Will Go On" and Melissa Barrera joined by Constantine Rousouli on "To Love You More" — weeks after the show officially opened at the St. James Theatre.
The clips arrive during a run that began previews March 26 and opened April 12, 2026, and that has since drawn four Tony Award nominations: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Lead Actress in a Musical for Mindelle and Featured Actor in a Musical for Layton Williams.
The Broadway cast the videos put on view includes a mix of players familiar to the project and marquee names: Frankie Grande as Victor Garber, Constantine Rousouli as Jack Dawson, John Riddle as Cal Hockley, Jim Parsons as Ruth Dewitt Bukater, Deborah Cox as Unsinkable Molly Brown, Melissa Barrera as Rose Dewitt Bukater, and Layton Williams as The Iceberg. Williams is reprising the role that won him an Olivier.
Titaníque is a campy send-up of the 1997 film Titanic set to the songs of Céline Dion, a conceit that has carried the show from cult curiosity to Broadway. The musical began as a one-night-only concert in Los Angeles in 2017, played New York’s Green Room 42 in 2018, became a fully staged Off-Broadway musical in 2022 and then completed a three-year Off-Broadway engagement that closed last year at the Daryl Roth Theatre before moving to the St. James.
The Playbill videos are a tidy demonstration of how that trajectory has changed the show’s profile: what started as a concert and a limited Off-Broadway run now features a Broadway company and Tony recognition, and the new footage frames the production as both affectionate parody and pop-theater event. The original creative team largely reassembled for the Broadway transfer, including director Tye Blue, choreographer Ellenore Scott and music supervisor Nicholas James Connell.
There is a gap between the show’s origins and its current stature. Titaníque was not designed for the Main Stem when it began; its rise relied on cult word of mouth and successive small-scale stagings. The Playbill clips spotlight the performers who have carried that climb to larger houses and higher stakes, even as the show retains its campy, crowd-pleasing sensibility.
For viewers, the videos offer the kind of cast-centered moment that boosted the show off stage long before it reached Broadway — Mindelle’s take on Dion’s signature ballad and Barrera with Rousouli on a dramatic duet put the Broadway performers at the center of the conversation in a way footage from a small club could not. Mindelle has marked the season with a note of personal milestone, saying she felt enriched by the recognition and pointing out she is the first woman to receive three nominations in her category run — an observation she’s framed as making "her-story."
Playbill’s release is the latest public artifact of a production that moved into the St. James in April and that now carries four Tony nominations, but neither the videos nor the production’s public materials confirm how long Titaníque will remain at the St. James or whether the producers plan additional extensions or touring announcements.
