'Titanique,' a jukebox fantasia that imagines Celine Dion survived the Titanic, has found its audience. rachel_handler reports on the show's pure camp and absurd charm
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next Tuesday?’ We did not really know each other or necessarily like each other,” explains Mindelle cheerfully. Rousouli picks up the thread: “I thought she was a cold-hearted snake. I was like, ‘She’s so stoic and wants nothing to do with anybody. What a fucking bitch.’” Back to Mindelle: “And I thought he was a basic, shallow gay. Only obsessed with ab pics and chicken and broccoli. Which he kind of is.
Both were burnt out and bored to tears after ten years of a punishing, eight-shows-a-week, no-time-for-a-personal-life regimen and separately decided to quit New York and move to Los Angeles to, as Rousouli puts it, “be on fucking TV, win at life, and be so fucking rich, Broadway can suck a bag of dicks.” The exact opposite happened.
They were miserable but in a different, more California way: Mindelle was trying to break into screenwriting unsuccessfully, and Rousouli was kicking himself for turning down an opportunity to be onAt least this time they had each other and the ability to go out and get drunk on a weekend night — which is what led toRousouli says the idea came to him in a moment of divine, wasted inspiration: “I was like, ‘I think the next movie-to-musical parody we should do isWith all Céline Dion songs.
The rest of the story is just as theater-kid-fairy-tale-esque. Rousouli went on vacation to Mykonos, where he accidentally befriended Dion songwriter David Foster’s manager, who heard about the show and told Rousouli that the cast should fly back to Los Angeles to perform the whole offor Foster: “He’s gonna be obsessed with this.
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