Moulin Rouge! (musical)
[3] Some sources claimed in 2006 that director Baz Luhrmann had approached the leads of the film, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, to star in the potential stage version.The musical relates the story of Christian, a young composer, who falls in love with cabaret actress Satine, who is the star of the Moulin Rouge.[8][9][10] The Moulin Rouge cabaret club, "where all your dreams come true", is in full swing under the direction of Harold Zidler, flanked by four dancers: Nini, Baby Doll, Arabia, and La Chocolat.Right before Zidler introduces the Moulin Rouge's Sparkling Diamond, Christian interrupts to start a story "about love", about a woman named Satine.In 1899, Christian arrives at the Montmartre district of Paris from Lima, Ohio, where he meets bohemians Toulouse-Lautrec and Santiago, who are attempting to create a play with songs in it.After Satine performs for the club, Zidler prepares for her to meet and impress the Duke of Monroth, who might invest in the Moulin Rouge and save it from financial ruin.While dancing and still thinking she is speaking with the Duke, Satine invites Christian to come to her dressing room in "the Elephant" outside the club ("Shut Up and Raise Your Glass").With Zidler's help, Christian, Satine, Toulouse, and Santiago pitch the show to the Duke with an improvised plot about an evil gangster attempting to woo an ingenue who loves a poor sailor ("So Exciting!Backstage, Nini tells Satine that she needs to be careful about her relationship with Christian and keep the Duke happy, as he once threw a vial of acid in the face of another woman who betrayed him.Christian expresses jealousy and disgust that Satine is with the Duke instead of him, ignoring Zidler's warning that falling in love with a prostitute "always ends badly" ("El Tango de Roxanne").Christian decides that without Satine's love, he will load a prop gun with real bullets and commit suicide on stage during the play's opening night.[10] The cast again starred Tveit and Olivo as Christian and Satine, with Danny Burstein as Harold, Tam Mutu as the Duke, Sahr Ngaujah as Toulouse-Lautrec, and Robyn Hurder as Nini.[20] Natalie Mendoza, who appeared in the original Luhrmann film as a can-can dancer, took over the role of Satine[21] when the production resumed on September 24, 2021.[33] The cast starred Jamie Bogyo and Liisi LaFontaine and featured Clive Carter as Harold, Jason Pennycooke as Tolouse and Zoe Birkett as Arabia.[36] A South Korean production opened in 2021 and closed in 2022, starring Hong Kwang-Ho and Lee Choong-joo, and Ivy and Kim Ji-Woo, splitting the roles of Christian and Satine, respectively.The double-cast starred Yoshio Inoue and Shouma Kai as Christian, Nozomi Futo and Ayaka Hirahara as Satine and featured Satoshi Hashimoto and Yuki Matsumura as Harold, Kanata Irei as the Duke, Masataka Nakagauchi as Santiago and Kaede Kaga as Nini.It starred Silas Holst and Sara Viktoria Bjerregaard, and featured Rasmus Bjerg as Harold and Andy Roda as Baby Doll.Patrick Ryan of USA Today commented that "the use of recent pop songs actually improves upon the source material, helping flesh out characters' motivations and deepen the central romance."[53] In a mixed review, Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos criticized the musical's disjointedness but praised the high-energy parts of the show.[54] In another mixed review, Charles Isherwood of Broadway News summed up that "The resulting show is all flash, splash and megawatt musical numbers, nimbly if not entirely masking a fairly hollow and certainly hoary emotional core."[55] Alexis Soloski of The Guardian also commented on the leads' lack of chemistry, but mentioned that the show delivers when it comes to "dazzle and excitement," praising its choreography, set, energy, and costume.
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