{"id":470524,"date":"2026-03-12T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470524\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:13:11","slug":"titanique-producers-sink-its-stars-instagram-funding-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470524\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Titanique’ Producers Sink Its Star\u2019s Instagram Funding Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tConstantine Rousouli\u2019s Instagram is your typical Broadway<\/a> showman\u2019s feed: career updates, European vacation snaps, talk show clips. But in January, the co-writer and co-star of Titanique posted something that definitely stood out: an invitation to invest in his upcoming Broadway show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFINAL CALL!\u201d the Instagram story read. \u201cA very limited opportunity to get involved with TITANIQUE on Broadway as a Co-Producer\/Investor. Few slots left \u2014 DM me. Serious inquiries only.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s language more commonly used to unload credenzas on Facebook Marketplace than to solicit Broadway backers. It\u2019s also potentially problematic. The LLC behind Titanique\u2018s fundraising \u2014 the gloriously named Kooky Krazy Broadway Ltd. Liability Co. \u2014 had filed for a Rule 506(b) exemption, which allows companies to raise money from private investors without registering with the SEC, but only if the offering stays private. No advertising, no public solicitation. Posting on Instagram \u2014 one of the most public platforms on earth \u2014 is pretty much the opposite of that.<\/p>\n

\n\tRousouli didn\u2019t respond to Rambling\u2019s request for an interview, but a spokesperson for Titanique concedes that his social media pitch was an unfortunate misstep, insisting that the producers \u201ctake compliance seriously\u201d and \u201cdid not issue, approve or authorize the post,\u201d which has since been taken down.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe desperation play makes sense. Titanique, a musical sendup of James Cameron\u2019s seafaring opus, is heading to Broadway\u2019s St. James Theatre with Jim Parsons and Frankie Grande \u2014 but even with a budget well below the $25 million some productions require, finding backers is a grind in the current climate. Investors have grown choosier, and shows are struggling to hit even their minimum capitalizations.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether Rousouli\u2019s Instagram appeal helped fill the coffers (and whether the production\u00a0would\u00a0be allowed to keep the proceeds) before he took it down remains unclear. <\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis story appeared in the March 11 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.\u00a0Click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Constantine Rousouli\u2019s Instagram is your typical Broadway showman\u2019s feed: career updates, European vacation snaps, talk show clips. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15000,6491,96,15001,46091,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-broadway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-theater","tag-titanic","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}