Every night in our dreams, we've wished for this moment: Titanique the Musical is cruising into Chicago!
The smash-hit comedy, in which "the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian love with the film Titanic," is gearing up for a Chicago run as a co-production from Porchlight Music Theatre and Broadway in Chicago, with performances set for the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place this spring.
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Led by actress Clare Kennedy McLaughlin, who will play the French-Canadian pop diva herself, Chicago's Titanique will retell the fictionalized story of Titanic's sinking from James Cameron’s 1997 Blockbuster, albeit using Dion's famous power ballads to push the plot forward.
Featured tunes include “Because You Loved Me,” “All By Myself,” “To Love You More,” “Tell Him,” “Beauty and the Beast" and two of Dion's most-loved covers, “River Deep, Mountain High” and “I Drove All Night," culminating, of course, in that radio juggernaut “My Heart Will Go On.”
Along with the heightened take on the pop icon, the 100-minute, intermission-free musical parody will feature characters from the Titanic movie, including doomed lovers Jack and Rose, the “unsinkable” Molly Brown and this writer's personal favorite, a figure known only as “Victor Garber.” (Of course, that theater legend famously played shipbuilder Mr. Andrews in the '90s adventure-romance film.)
Dion—who, in this fever-dream recounting of the Titanic tragedy, survived the real-life sinking—hilariously narrates her version of what happened to the film's characters on the night the ship sank.
“A one-of-a-kind theatrical voyage bursting with nostalgia, heart and campy chaos,” the show first set sail in Los Angeles back in 2017 before becoming a word-of-mouth hit Off Broadway in New York City in June 2022. Other productions are presently running in London and Sydney, with another one soon to open in Paris.
Titanique! the Musical opened for previews in Chicago on Wednesday, March 25 and performances will run through Sunday, July 13. Tickets are currently available on the Broadway in Chicago website. All aboard!
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