Thursday, January 8, 2026

B'way Update: Titanique Cast; Gay Fantasticks

Jim Parsons, Debrah Cox, Frankie Grande
and Constantine Rousouli
will headline Titanique on Broadway.
Titanique, the long-running Off-Broadway parody musical, has announced new passengers for its Broadway voyage. Joining co-creator Marla Mindelle as Celine Dion will be four-time Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee Jim Parsons (“Big Bang Theory,” Mother Play, Our Town) as Ruth Dewitt Bukater; multi-platinum Grammy-nominated singer and actress Deborah Cox (The Wiz, The Bodyguard Musical) as Unsinkable Molly Brown; original cast member Frankie Grande (Rock of Ages, Mamma Mia) returns as Victor Garber; and Olivier Award-winning Titanique co-creator Constantine Rousouli (Wicked, Cruel Intentions: The Musical) as Jack Dawson, a role he originated off-Broadway. Additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Previews begin March 26 at the St. James Theater with an opening set for April 26. The limited run engagement will play through July 12.


Peter Toto, Harrison Fish, and
Chanthoeun Varon Collins in the revised 
version of The Fantasticks 
at the Provincetown Theater.
Credit: Bob Tucker/Focalpoint
In other news, a Broadway revival of The Fantasticks, the longest-running show on or Off-Broadway, recast as a modern gay romance, is being planned. Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, Death Becomes Her) will direct and choreograph. Featuring a revised book and lyrics by Tom Jones (who completed his work before he died in 2023) and music by Harvey Schmidt, this new version features young lovers Matt and Lewis rather than Matt and Luisa. Their fathers who secretly scheme to get them together, will be replaced by two mothers. The adaptation was presented in 2022 at Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, MI, and was developed in subsequent productions at the Provincetown Theater in Provincetown, MA, and Coachella Valley Repertory in Cathedral City, CA.

2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Winter 2025-26
Jan. 8--Bug (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Jan. 9--An Ark (The Shed)
Jan. 15--The Disappear (Audible/Minetta Lane)
Jan. 25--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Feb. 1--Coriolanus (TFANA) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Feb. 4--High Spirits (Encores!/City Center)
Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)
Feb. 12--The Unknown (Studio Seaview)
Feb. 16--The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons)
Feb. 22--Marcel on the Train (CSC)
Feb. 24--Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)
Feb. 24--The Reservoir (Atlantic Theater Company)
Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)
Feb. 26--Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Jesa (Public)
Public Charge (Public)

2026
Dolly: An Original Musical
Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026
March 1--Bigfoot! the Musical (MTC/City Center)
March 5--What We Did Before Our Moth Days (Greenwich House Theater)
March 10--Cold War Choir Practice (MCC)
March 11--Bughouse (Vineyard)
March 11--Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)
March 12--Every Brilliant Thing (Hudson)
March 17--My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)
March 18--The Wild Party (Encores!/City Center)
March 23--Giant (Music Box)
March 23--Hamlet (Teatro La Plaza/TFANA)
March 30--Dog Day Afternoon (August Wilson)
April 7--Cats: The Jellicle Ball (Broadhurst)
April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)
April 9--Death of a Salesman (Winter Garden)
April 12--Titanique (St. James)
April 16--Proof (Booth)
April 19--Hamlet (BAM)
April 20--Schmigadoon (Nederlander)
April 21--The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)
April 22--Beaches, a New Musical (Majestic)
April 23--The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)
April 25--Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Barrymore)
April 26--The Lost Boys (Palace)
May 7--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)
May 18--Chita Rivera Awards (NYU Skirball)
May--The Emporium (CSC)
: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)
Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)
Montauk
No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)
Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)

2026-27
Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo
Private Lives

Summer 2026
June 17--La Cage Aux Folles (Encores!/City Center)
June 24--Birthright (MCC)
July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Bocking (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Fall 2026
Dreamgirls
Jackals (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Winter 2026
The Adding Machine (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; The Fantasticks (Revised Version); Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
All Out: Comedy About Ambition
The Balusters
Call Me Izzy
Cottonfield
Dog Day Afternoon
Giant
Liberation (transfer from Off-Broadway)
Little Bear Ridge Road
Montauk
Oedipus
Punch

New Musicals
Beaches, A New Musical
Dolly: An Original Musical
The Lost Boys
Schmigadoon
Titanique (transfer from Off-Broadway)
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
The Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals
Art
Becky Shaw
Bug
Death of a Salesman
Every Brilliant Thing
Fallen Angels
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Marjorie Prime
Proof
Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals
Beetlejuice
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Chess
Mamma Mia!
Ragtime
The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties
Jeffrey Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride
Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets 

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