Most biodramas about musicians sing from the same hymn sheet: chart the rise to fame and any fall from grace, flit between studio and stage, make room for relevant lovers and demons. Then add the hits. Two new musicals may find Céline Dion belting out My Heart Will Go On and Dolly Parton warbling I Will Always Love You. But theatregoers should also prepare for this wild-eyed version of Dion to raise merry hell on the Titanic and this particular Parton to miraculously appear in the childhood bedroom of a depressed 40-year-old called Kevin.
The off-kilter spirit of the shows, Titanique and Here You Come Again, make them more akin to the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, featuring a CGI chimpanzee, than Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar-tipped turn as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.
