Titanic

You know, I produced

Titanic.

I was one of the co-producers of Titanic, which was like so fun to just be involved in that.

I saw

that three times off Broadway and one time on Broadway.

I was going to read some of your credentials.

We would have no time for the interview if I literally walked through what you are known for, other than to say you are award-winning director, everything from Titanic to Shake It Away and Call Me Elizabeth.

You are amazing.

I think most people know who you are.

Most recently, he covered Fiero in the West End production of Wicked.

And now he is an offstage cover in the West End production of Titanic.

It's been six and a half years since we did this.

It took that long to recover, but I'm so pleased he's back.

After a full show, like five show weekend, right?

Yeah, which I'm not used to, because obviously with Wicked, it was a midweek matinee, and then just a single show on a Sunday, which was absolutely lovely, because then you've got two evenings off a week.

But Titanic is a solid five-show weekend.

It's because its target audience want to be there on the weekend, right? You know what, the audiences on a weekend are absolutely bonkers.

She grew up in Acton! Yes, they did! Shut up! Her dad's whatever age, and like, she's completely rocked by him having an operation.

Australian Juliet is still not telling people about Titanic, but she is talking about how she's a triple threat.

Karen tells everyone it's been cancelled in the next episode.

Well, it's on now, and it's been on before, so there has been multiple runs.

Yeah, I mean, Cyrano was pretty special for me, for Marcus.

I mean, also seeing him on the road, actually, in Titanic was pretty awesome.

Yeah.

I got to say, that was really fun.

But it sort of came and went as a production.

But the more surprising ones, with the downturn in shows this year, they're able to fit in Titanic, even though it had a very good run off Broadway already, they boosted it up and goosed it up for Broadway in the Sir James Theatre.

Titanic, very funny, and I enjoyed it, but it's not quite a Broadway show.

It's really still an off-Broadway show, but it had a very good run over the summer and very funny.

Then also what I slipped into is...

When did you decide to flip the perspective so it's being told from the cats? Moo Moo and Boo Boo.

How did we get there? So we got to the point of curating this, this parody show that is telling the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard or inspired by, and inspired by O'Meary, Titanic.

They have clever devices that are able to frame the story in such a way that make the audience comfortable.

And that is paramount when you're dealing with such serious like subject material.

And we're going to go with it.

But that's what I think this industry is all about.

Look at, well, you spoke a bit about Titanic already, but even things like Six and Operation Mincemeat, like a bunch of friends just being like, oh, let's do this thing.

You know, everyone has these ideas all the time.