About Moulin Rouge - The Musical
Get ready to enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular…
Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical!
Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. A theatrical celebration of truth, beauty, freedom and — above all — love, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical; it is a state of mind.
When Moulin Rouge! bursts into action with a quartet of strutting chorus girls ("Lady Marmalade"), a bevy of colorful can-can dancers, and a rousing welcome from Harold Zidler (Danny Burstein), the ringmaster of this human three-ring circus, decked out in top hat, red tails, and clownish makeup. His zippy onstage demeanor belies the fact that the club, like its decor, is seriously in the red, and only an infusion of capital from a wealthy patron can keep the doors open and the menagerie employed. Enter the Duke of Monroth, the savior/villain whose charity comes with a steep price. The stage lighting becomes devoid of color as he coolly sings "Money (That's What I Want)," showing us who he is in an instant…your heart cannot do anything than to skip a beat.
Based on Baz Luhrmann’s Academy Award-winning film, and featuring many of its iconic songs, the world-premiere musical invites you to experience the sweeping grandeur of Paris’s most spectacular dance hall.
Set in Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France at the turn of the century, a world of indulgent beauty and unparalleled extravagance, of bohemians and aristocrats, of boulevardiers and mademoiselles, "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" tells the fictional story of an ambitious, lovesick writer, Christian, and a dazzling, entrancing chanteuse, Satine. Their lives collide at the Moulin Rouge with its many characters including the host of the Moulin Rouge, Harold Zidler, the brilliant and starving artist Toulouse-Lautrec, the greatest tango dancer - and gigolo - in all of Paris, Santiago, the tempting Nini , and The Duke of Monroth, the wealthy and entitled patron of the club who thinks he can buy anything he wants, including love. Directed by Tony nominee Alex Timbers, with a book by Tony winner John Logan.
Moulin Rouge! The musical premiered on July 10, 2018 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston. Get your tickets fast on ticketnetwork.com.