'Titanique' sets Off-Broadway closing date

The hit parody musical, inspired by James Cameron's Titanic film and set to the hit songs of Celine Dion, will close after three years of performances.

All aboard the Ship of Dreams one last time! The hit Off-Broadway musical Titanique will extend for one final time at the Daryl Roth Theatre and play its final performance on June 15, the third anniversary of its first performance. At the time of closing, it will have played 1,221 performances.

Titanique initially premiered in 2022 at Asylum NYC before moving to a bigger theatre after being buoyed by critical and audience acclaim. The show parodies James Cameron's Titanic film, giving a wacky retelling of what really happened to Jack and Rose packed with modern pop culture references. The character of Celine Dion narrates the tale, and the musical is set to the singer's biggest hits.

"Expect a titanic amount of pure joy," New York Theatre Guide's four-star Titanique review reads. The show went on to win the Lucille Lortel Award and Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical alongside other major theatre awards.

“Never in our wildest (ship of) dreams did we expect this scrappy, fever dream of a musical would rise from the basement of a Gristedes to an award-winning three-year run at the legendary Daryl Roth Theatre,” said the show’s director and co-writer, Olivier Award winner Tye Blue. “We’re so grateful to the hundreds of artists who have been a part of this surreal voyage — bringing our joyful Celine slayfest from New York to six stages around the world. We look forward to laughing, singing, and sashaying with our incredible fans for ten final weeks, before we say ‘au revoir, girlfriends’!”

Blue co-wrote the show with Constantine Rousouli and Marla Mindelle, both of whom were in the show's original cast. The current cast features Amber Ardolino as Céline Dion, Cassadee Pope as Rose Dewitt Bukater, Max Jenkins as Jack Dawson, Lea DeLaria as Ruth Dewitt Bukater, Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Victor Garber/Luigi, Lisa Howard as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Callum Francis as Cal, Kyle Ramar Freeman as The Iceberg, Jamir Brown, Rae Davenport, Tess Marshall, Barnaby Reiter, and Cassidy Stoner.