Books on Broadway: Titaníque

Now playing at Bryant Park, *Titaníque* reframes the *Titanic* story as a pop send-up, with Céline Dion’s music steering the narrative and the joke. The piece, which first surfaced in New York as a downtown cult favorite before moving into larger commercial runs, reflects the city’s habit of turning niche parody into a broader civic event. It matters less for plot fidelity than for what it documents: how fandom, drag-inflected camp, and jukebox theater have become part of contemporary NYC nightlife culture. One clear takeaway is its discipline in treating sincerity and spoof as the same fuel.