Titaníque review – delightfully campy Céline Dion musical shows bigger isn’t always better

Adrian Horton
St James Theatre, New York The hilariously deranged riff on Titanic loses some scrappy charm in its Broadway transfer According to its creators, the idea for Titaníque, the extremely campy Céline Dion jukebox musical now open on Broadway , originated as a drunken riff between friends – what if the Québécois Queen of Feelings not only sang the theme song of the movie Titanic , but sincerely believed she survived the disaster? A Céline-ified Titanic is an appropriately silly concept – possibly no