How to pronounce “dion” in English

is inhabiting the character.Dion knows this too.

Frankly, I would have done a book about the "Titanic" if it hadn't been done to death by James Cameron and CelineDion. You know? But it just seemed, at first, too obvious, too familiar.Until I just-- I really had nothing else on my plate, so I started reading about it.

We took those to Congress and we were ready to get that many more when we got--Dione got the call to go to the White House.Oh, I tell you, I could have done a Holy dance,

There are so many other things.Dione, tell them the other things that are happening with Juneteenth.Well, we've already had our Miss Juneteenth Pageant, and our reigning queen was actually the national pageant winner for 2023.

someone will tell us so I said cool and we did it and that's where you metdionis I didn't know anything about him except that he was into wine we were atthis park just outside of Sienna there was music and druming and people were

is a system that we no longer particularly use.But Dionysius-- yes, Dionysius replaced a calendrical system which had been based on what's called the Diocletianic era,meaning that this had picked up at the accession of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 284 CE.

meaning that this had picked up at the accession of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 284 CE.And Dionysius established this system then in 525, so about a century later.And that gets us to our sort of AD-- well, it gets us moving anyway toward our AD, BC dates.

I guess we should have prefaced.She's Céline Dion. I'm Jack.She's Rose. He plays our captain slash Victor Garber.

Hi I'm Marla Mindelle.I play Céline Dion, as you know.And I also co-wrote the book with Connie and Tye.

And for you working with this team, of course, Norman's got a huge history, Sheryl's got a huge history,Chris and Dion and Brooke and everyone in the cast has-- I mean, it seems like this perfect mesh of casting that I also want to touch on from the Broadwaystandpoint because there are so many theater and Broadway people in this thing.

Remember the California State Assembly?I'm working with Dion Aroner.And when Dion term limited out, I stayed on as a field representative for her successor, Lonnie Hancock, whose only now term limiting out of the California State Senate.

I'm working with Dion Aroner.And when Dion term limited out, I stayed on as a field representative for her successor, Lonnie Hancock, whose only now term limiting out of the California State Senate.I'm in a one person satellite office in Richmond and doing constituency work.

I got a chance to support her as she's walking up in the walk back in 2017 I think that was the first time I got a chanceto meet her and Dione as they were running the campaign, and this was in the local community over in Fort Worth.So they do a lot of Juneteenth events in Fort Worth, and I've been able to connect to those and her over the years.

If you are new to the world of "Titanique" here, however, I'd like to give you a bit of an introduction.When the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian love with the 11-time Oscar winning film "Titanic," you get "Titanique," a musical celebrationthat turns one of the greatest love stories of all time into a hysterical and joyful slay-fest.

And then queenspiration? Oh, you know, it can change depending who's playing it, which is fun, but it's been Adele for me,and a little bit of Celine Dion here and there.Oh, that is a good one.

It's amazing. Anybody else, favorite, vibing with?And then I'll listen to Celine Dion for Jane Seymour and Britney Spears for K. Howard,

And I think the goal is to get everyone there.I felt that when I saw Celine Dion live.

is inhabiting the character.And when I was introduced to Dion's work on "Ties That Bind--" I hope it's OK to tell this story--

Wow. Well, yeah, we'll share this one.My vision for the show was always a pop-up Céline Dion concert where she mysteriously marionettes these incredible comedian singers who start as tourguests at the Titanic museum.

that feeling of, like, oh, my wife, and how's your husband?And Chris was flying back and forth with his family and Dion with his wife.She was on set somewhere else.

is inhabiting the character.I sure loved being an audience member and watching Dion and Heather and their story lines play out because I got to read them

It means the Seven Sisters, or Pleiades.The Pleiades in Greek literature were the nurses of Dionysus, who is the God of the Grape.So he's responsible for all our wine.

So he was important, and he got one of the first book deals.And then there was a guy named Marco Dionysos, who actually was from-- he wasn't from Portland, but he made his name in Portland.This was before Portland was cool like it is today.

The Romans, where today it's 2768.The numbering system that we use is basically attributed to Dionysius Exiguus.And it replaced a previous system of calendrical dating, going back-- well, actually this

My kitchen's so embarrassing.There's a book called "The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook" by Dione Lucas.

And so how can we engage that and also sometimes make things look like they're in a music video.So a lot of the choreography feels like you're watching a Céline Dion music video, which, by the way, go rewatch those if you haven't in a long timebecause they're amazing. So truly inspired by what they brought physically in terms of their characters but also trying to make the show feel like a concert.

So then we're like, what are we going to do for the second one?You guys are going to get so bored of seeing me do Celine Dion.

In 1999, he was nominated for the Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards.The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion, won the Golden Globe for best original song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records as he simultaneously

But now I'm married to a Canadian.And I know that he's probably the most famous Canadian apart from Celine Dion, and that song has been covered by so many people.But at the time, I didn't know.

And her and her team managed this media, came in, and helped us clear the songs that we have on the show.And it did not hurt that the greatest songwriter, producer of Céline Dion and many other classics, David Foster, had come and seen one of the readingsthat these guys had put up and fell in love with it and was very supportive as a co-writer on many of the songs.

So right now, the show being released in the middle of pandemic, I think, is helping a lot of people realize exactly what youwant to realize. But Chris, Dion, Heather, the three of you watching it in the finished version now,did it come out differently than you pictured it in your mind when you were living it in the moment filming it,

is inhabiting the character.And in the theater, every night I can go back-- Dion knows this.

So then we're like, what are we going to do for the second one?I mean, who do you-- I can do Celine Dion, which I do in everything.

So then we're like, what are we going to do for the second one?All right. Please don't, Celine Dion.

We now have divas that become Sirens of Chrome, and here is Celine Dion

In the "NewsHour" from time to time they have David Brooks and E.J. Dionne talking about the issues of the day.

And I was like, Marla, how about-- Say, Marla, I have an idea.Yeah. Two Martinis deep, I was like, and the next show we're going to do is going to be "Titanic." You're going to play Céline Dion.I'm going to be Jack.

I have to invest and learn every single thing about her.And that comes after really digging into the required tools, what someone really has to be able to do to pull off Céline Dion in a fun, yet earnest,

And I think the goal is to get everyone there.And I really want that to come back, because there was a time when Aretha Franklin, and Celine Dion, and I think Beyonce has that thing.

right now has been tremendously moving.Actually, OK, so I'm going to bring in actors Heather, Dion, Chris-- Heather Headley, Dion Johnstone, and Chris Klein.The three of you, talking about the cast and-- I mean, you were all joking around backstage and were asking, like, Dion, you're

Actually, OK, so I'm going to bring in actors Heather, Dion, Chris-- Heather Headley, Dion Johnstone, and Chris Klein.The three of you, talking about the cast and-- I mean, you were all joking around backstage and were asking, like, Dion, you'reabout to expect your first child, so Heather was asking about that.

Elton John, Santana, Rod Stewart to Avril Lavigne, Celine Dion, Michelle Branch.

You know, I saw myself on late night TV going, "Well, when I first called Dionne Psychic Friends..." - In my 40s, my addictions were just as powerful

So I'm super excited to have them here as we get ready to start the interview or the questions and answers.So thank you for being here, again, Oprah Lee and her granddaughter, Miss Dione Sims.We are hosting this in Dallas where you're originally from the North Texas area.

Yeah. But we played all the same music that I used to play when I used to trip with Divine, who used to come out and do Dionne Warwick's "Once

The teachings of Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Yahweh, Dionysus, Oprah, Yoda, and all the rest.

Yeah, my mother cooked a lot of French food.She cooked from all of Julia Child's books, and Craig Claiborne, and Dione Lucas, and James Beard.To just such a point where we would sit down and my mom would say, Julia says this tastes like this.

After one year of intense study, I began to think of my own philosophy. I call it Meta-existentialism, and it builds on the profound insights as Socrates and Sartre. My first book, Dionysus