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TITANÍQUE Reviews#100
Posted: 5/15/26 at 5:15pm
I just read it myself. That seems like a lot of shady dealings and nonsense that might force the property to be put on ice (no pun intended) after this run. If Celine’s people were rankled about references to her name on merch, I can’t imagine they would be any happier about missing royalties for her music.
I’m also incredibly perplexed as to how this show costs nearly $1M a week to run. Across the street, JELLICLE BALL, has quadruple the cast and still comes in around $850K a week. I’m sure Parsons and Cox are getting hefty salaries, but could it be that the royalty prices went up? It’s all so odd and, with zero chance of recouping on Broadway, why not open the balcony and sell those tickets for a rock bottom steerage rate?
TITANÍQUE Reviews#101
Posted: 5/15/26 at 5:16pm
Tangentially related, but Flanigan was also the co-GM with MEP for Redwood; until they were both quietly replaced by Alchemy Productions a month prior to the shows sudden closure. MEP/Eva Price was also the lead producer on the show, interestingly.
Re: Eva Price, someone should take a look into the operating expenses for &Juliet. The fact it’s still running with such low grosses…
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/05
TITANÍQUE Reviews#102
Posted: 5/15/26 at 6:07pm
quizking101 said: "I’m also incredibly perplexed as to how this show costs nearly $1M a week to run. Across the street, JELLICLE BALL, has quadruple the cast and still comes in around $850K a week. I’m sure Parsons and Cox are getting hefty salaries, but could it be that the royalty prices went up? It’s all so odd and, with zero chance of recouping on Broadway, why not open the balcony and sell those tickets for a rock bottom steerage rate?"
I remember hearing that Moulin Rouge had to clear and negotiate a royalty with each songwriter and publisher of every song used in the show. I assume Titanique had to do the same and the songwriters and publishers have leverage, since there's no show without those songs. If that's correct, that could contribute to the inflated weekly running costs.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
TITANÍQUE Reviews#103
Posted: 5/15/26 at 6:16pm
quizking101 said: "I’m also incredibly perplexed as to how this show costs nearly $1M a week to run. Across the street, JELLICLE BALL, has quadruple the cast and still comes in around $850K a week. I’m sure Parsons and Cox are getting hefty salaries, but could it be that the royalty prices went up?"
Do we know that CATS is indeed breaking even at a gross of $850K a week, or are the hard costs $850K plus royalties and credit card fees?
While CATS does have 28 cast/12 orchestra and TITANIQUE has 14 cast/19 orchestra, I would not be shocked if everyone in CATS is Most Favored Nations and making about $5,000 a week. In the eyes of agents, TITANIQUE has three "famous" people (Barrera, Cox, Parsons). If you told me they were each getting $20-50K a week, I would not be shocked. That show was desperate for names. And when supporting players earn that kind of money, it can make other salaries go up too. (This is guesswork, not insider scoop.)
TITANÍQUE Reviews#104
Posted: 5/15/26 at 7:12pm
Asking genuinely- is the Broadway Journal a reputable source? I've never heard of it. If it is legit, they really need to work on their site. Myspace looked more professional than this.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#105
Posted: 5/15/26 at 7:16pm
HenryTDobson said: "Asking genuinely- is the Broadway Journal a reputable source? I've never heard of it. If it is legit, they really need to work on their site. Myspace looked more professional than this."
Yes. Philip Boroff knows his stuff and is up there with Michael Paulson for me, in terms of beat reporting.
Broadway Journal is basically a Substack now.
Swing Joined: 5/10/04
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/05
TITANÍQUE Reviews#107
Posted: 5/15/26 at 10:11pm
Boroff is a great reporter and one of the few people I trust.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#108
Posted: 5/15/26 at 10:44pm
Concur that Boroff is an excellent reporter and he hardly, if ever, misses. I have been reading him for a few years now.
I also heard about these issues when they were going down internally last year but didn't realize the scope/severity of it.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/23
TITANÍQUE Reviews#109
Posted: 5/15/26 at 11:07pm
Yes, this has been a hushed secret for a bit now. Hence the surprise it was coming to Broadway in the first place...
TITANÍQUE Reviews#110
Posted: 5/16/26 at 12:00pm
Do we think Eva knew? The comments on Reddit make it seem like she’s not a great person.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#111
Posted: 5/16/26 at 4:04pm
EveryLittleStep said: "Do we think Eva knew? The comments on Reddit make it seem like she’s not a great person."
She gives me major Lydia Tar vibes, lol
TITANÍQUE Reviews#112
Posted: 5/16/26 at 4:49pm
I am a little confused after reading through that piece a few times. Am I wrong that it seems to suggest that Flanigan made the off-Broadway production look more profitable than it was to cover up his fraud? And if that's the case, if Price et al made a pitch to investors that cited that supposed success in order to get them to invest in the Broadway production, and then that success turned out to be fraudulent, does that not raise a lot more questions about what the producers knew and when? Flanigan was fired over a year ago and presumably his fraud was known by the producers while they were fundraising.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
TITANÍQUE Reviews#113
Posted: 5/16/26 at 6:33pm
If I had been an investor on this or any Eva Price show, I would have a lot of questions about what she knew and when she knew it. Aspects of this matter have been public knowledge for a year, but not this level of detail (not to me at least). I am told that Price and Flanigan were intensely close.
The timing of investor distributions can be a very strategic thing when a producer is trying to raise money for other projects, and when some of those projects are new productions of the same show.
If a show keeps running, the GM firm and the producer’s office still get paid.
It is telling that of the 10 Off-Bway co-producers billed at the bottom of the Bway title page, only 3 of them are co-producers on the Bway production…and one of them is the Grande family and the other is Jimmy Nederlander.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#114
Posted: 5/17/26 at 12:57pm
Tess Marshall is making her Céline Dion debut on Broadway today.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#115
Posted: 5/17/26 at 4:22pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Tess Marshall is making her Céline Dion debut on Broadway today."
Yes, because Marla is hosting the Drama Desks tonight.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
TITANÍQUE Reviews#116
Posted: 5/17/26 at 7:18pm
I’m pretty sure I saw Tess as Celine understudy downtown. She was excellent. Very funny and great voice.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#117
Posted: 5/19/26 at 11:18am
As expected, a national tour launching in 2027 has just been announced at day one of the Spring Road Conference.
(It will do really, really good business IMO.)
TITANÍQUE Reviews#118
Posted: 5/19/26 at 11:59am
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "While CATS does have28 cast/12 orchestra and TITANIQUE has 14 cast/19 orchestra,I would not be shocked if everyone in CATS is Most Favored Nations and making about $5,000a week. In the eyes of agents, TITANIQUE has three "famous" people (Barrera, Cox, Parsons). If you told me they were each getting $20-50K a week, I would not be shocked. That show was desperate for names. And when supporting players earn that kind of money, itcan make other salariesgo up too. (This is guesswork, not insider scoop.)"
CATS is on Favored Nations for, I believe, everyone except André and six “principals” (DJ, Munk, Grizabella, Gus, Tugger, and Misto), and it’s certainly not that high of a salary (think closer to $3-3.5K). It’s part of why there were a lot of people who turned down Macavity and other roles
TITANÍQUE Reviews#119
Posted: 5/22/26 at 7:18am
I saw the show last week and by all accounts I thought I had gotten a pretty good seat. It was in the mezzanine, row F house left. But I discovered, after the play began, that my sight lines were hampered by all of the staging that was done on the lip of the stage. I could barely see the actors. I finally had to put my seat up and sit on the apron. And then to top it off the balance between the Orchestra (too loud) and the singers was off, so I couldn’t hear a lot of the lyrics which is rather crucial when doing a parody. I was surprised that I had experienced these disappointments, considering it was a show on Broadway. I can only blame the director and the sound designer for these drawbacks which could’ve all been avoided with some simple adjustments.I also had an issue with some of the actors talking so fast that they were killing their jokes. So all in all I think I would’ve enjoyed it more in a smaller space. The production did not have the gravitas for Broadway. All that being said, credit goes to the creators for Titanique for they knew what it was and they didn’t try to make it into anything else. Constantine Rousoulini was very charming and handled the comedy quite well both through physicality and in his commitment to the character. I also liked Jim Parsons. He came across as having more stage experience than some of the supporting players and he took the stage like he was Vera Charles in Mame. The writers took for granted that we all had seen the movie, but I probably would’ve added a few more plot points just to give the story a tad more structure. Unfortunately I had a hard time understanding Layton Williams. Part of it, could’ve been solved by simply slowing down a bit, but maintaining the same energy and intentions. I think sometimes actors decide they are doing a farce so they talk fast but forget that they are actually having a conversation with other characters, forgoing listening and reacting. Frankie Grande was guilty of the same thing and it made him seem inexperienced.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
TITANÍQUE Reviews#120
Posted: 5/25/26 at 9:55am
Is there some rights issue that has prevented this from getting a cast album?? This is the rare cast album that might actually do decent biz because of the catalogue.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#121
Posted: 5/25/26 at 10:29am
Aside from maybe releasing Layton's "River Deep, Mountain High" as a single, a majority of the songs are sung by Marla as Celine, and I don't think it would amount to more than karaoke as a cast album, they're not entirely different arrangements.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
TITANÍQUE Reviews#122
Posted: 5/25/26 at 10:30am
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Is there some rights issue that has prevented this from getting a cast album?? This is the rare cast album that might actually do decent biz because of the catalogue."
Per Kathy Deitch, it wasn't released because she put a curse on them because she is a witch.
TITANÍQUE Reviews#123
Posted: 5/25/26 at 10:35am
Billboard exclusive
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ptu1Lh/
TITANÍQUE Reviews#124
Posted: 5/25/26 at 10:36am
That's not an exclusive anymore- it's been all over social media the last few days. It's even been a sponsored post on IG.
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