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Like many things that can be described as big and gay, The Big Gay Jamboree owes much to Céline Dion.
For a full year—and in fits and starts for a stretch of time before that—Marla Mindelle, who co-wrote and stars in the buzzy new musical The Big Gay Jamboree, was Céline Dion.
Each night, she’d don a blonde wig, zip up a sparkling gown, slip into a cartoonish French Canadian accent, and belt to the heavens in the delightfully deranged musical Titanique, which she also co-wrote. The show earned a cult following that morphed into a mainstream obsession, leading to its transfer from a theater space in the basement under a closed Gristedes grocery store to a bonafide off-Broadway theater near Union Square, where it continues to extend its run.
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