Jim Parsons, Deborah Cox & Frankie Grande Board Broadway’s Upcoming ‘Titanique’
Jim Parsons will return to Broadway in the upcoming musical comedy Titanique, producers announced today, with other new cast members including Deborah Cox, Frankie Grande and the show’s co-creator Constantine Rousouli.
The hit Off Broadway mash-up of blockbuster film Titanic and the hits of Céline Dion, begins Broadway previews March 26 at the St. James Theatre. The 16-week limited engagement officially opens April 12 and runs through July 12.
Parsons, star of TV’s The Big Bang Theory last seen on Broadway in the 2024 productions of Our Town and Mother Play, will take on the role of Rose’s mother Ruth DeWitt Bukater ( played in the 1997 film by Frances Fisher). Cox (The Wiz, The Bodyguard Musical) will play Unsinkable Molly Brown; and Grande, an original cast member of the 2022 Off Broadway staging, will reprise his role of Victor Garber. Olivier Award-winning Titanique co-creator Rousouli (Wicked, Cruel Intentions: The Musical) returns to the musical as Jack Dawson.
They join the previously announced Marla Mindelle, who plays Céline Dion. Titanique co-creator Tye Blue (RuPaul’s Drag Race) will direct, with Ellenore Scott (Ragtime, Funny Girl) choreographing.
Additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks.
The synopsis for the Olivier Award-winning Titanique (co-written by Blue, Mindelle and Rousouli): “Want to find out what really happened to Jack and Rose on that fateful night? Just leave it to Céline to enchant the audience with her wild take, recharting the course of Titanic’s beloved moments and characters with her iconic song catalog.” Songs include Dion hits “My Heart Will Go On,” “All By Myself” and “To Love You More.”
Titanique is produced on Broadway by Tony Award winner Eva Price (&Juliet, Liberation, Oklahoma!).
