Moulin Rouge! The Musical

“CRITIC’S PICK "‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ Offers a Party, and a Playlist, for the Ages. Forbidden pleasures abound in this spectacular musical, starring a dazzling Karen Olivo as a doomed Parisian chanteuse.”

“The luscious 2001 movie hit makes it successfully to the stage — elephant and all — in this gorgeously flashy version.”

“Baz Luhrmann's playfully postmodern riff on the Hollywood movie musical set in fin de siècle Paris gets amped up for the stage, with Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit stepping into roles played onscreen by Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.”

“★★★★ "Red alert! Red alert! If you're the kind of person who frets that jukebox musicals are taking over Broadway, prepare to tilt at the windmill that is the gorgeous, gaudy, spectacularly overstuffed 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical.' Directed with opulent showmanship by Alex Timbers, this adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie may be costume jewelry, but its shine is dazzling.”

“'Moulin Rouge!' Is Broadway’s Biggest Karaoke Night. It commits singlemindedly to stuffing as many additional hit tracks as possible.”

“‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical!’ Review: Pop Opera Excess. A stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 camp extravaganza is as opulent as it is empty.”

“Will you love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ as a stage musical? Well, you’ll certainly fall in like.”

“‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ Review: All You Need Is Love Songs By The Dozens”

“B+ "'Moulin Rouge!' becomes an extravagant, head-spinning Broadway musical.”

“Broadway’s ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ is dazzling, decadent live translation of 2001 movie.”

“★★★★ "NYC’s hottest nightclub is on Broadway”

“Neither rollicking prophet nor ham-fisted artifact, Luhrmann's splashy zeitflop is exactly where Broadway lives, for better or worse. The adaptation, with a tidy, problem-solving book by John Logan, female-and-trans-empowering choreography by Sonya Tayeh, and farce-with-a-heart maximalist staging by Alex Timbers, 'Moulin Rouge!' sparkles like a million falling sequins, tickles like a chorus girls' feathers, and burns like a shot of absinthe engulfing your brain.”

““‘MOULIN ROUGE!’ is Visually Gorgeous, Vibrantly Performed and Seriously In Need of An Original Score. Bookwriter John Logan Deepens The Characters To The Point Where Pop Hits Aren't Enough.””

“Call this opulent, over the top, musical extravaganza anything you like but be aware it will never diminish the incredible work of a first-rate creative team or depreciate the entertainment value that it delivers.”

“Every penny of its reported $30 million budget flashes in your face from the moment you enter…The plot is merely a convenient means for this jukebox musical to tie numerous familiar songs together…Karen Olivo's tawny beauty combines magnetically with her dancing, singing, and acting talent.”

“Thrilling from the moment I entered the theater...until about ten minutes after it began. That's because the brightest star… is designer Derek McLane's set…which is arguably to 'Moulin Rouge' what the 20 foot puppet is to 'King Kong' - the one undiluted delight. There are other things to like…just nothing quite as thrilling.”

“Glittering and indefatigable, 'Moulin Rouge!' is strictly in the tradition of Billy Rose and Michael Todd, mid-twentieth-century specialists in tired-businessman entertainments like Star and Garter, Peep Show, and Padlocks of 1927…gives the audience everything and then some -- except a reason to care.”

“Truth. Beauty. Freedom. And above all things, Love. That's what is splashed before our hungry eyes and ears at the Moulin Rouge! - The Musical decadently and gorgeously mashing together with high-wired spectacular spectacular-ness...Within this new musical, directed dynamically and deliciously...”

“A Millennial Reboot of Chekhov, and 'Moulin Rouge!' on Broadway. Halley Feiffer translates 'Three Sisters' into Internet-speak, and Baz Luhrmann’s glitzy movie comes into its own onstage.”

““A spectacle of glamour, glitz, lust, love and romance - the costumes, the sets and strong, stunningly talented cast (Danny Burstein, Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Robyn Hurder) drive ‘Moulin Rouge!’ The 70 songs - or snippets of them - that make up the music can become weary but there's a a bit of nostalgia for everyone.””

“'Moulin Rouge!' on Broadway Is Spectacular, Spectacular. The first musical of the 2019-20 season sets a high bar for showmanship.”

“'Moulin Rouge,' Baz Luhrmann's psychedelic trip of a movie from 2001, has been reincarnated at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in an adaptation for Broadway, looking like an explosion inside the Bott's Every Flavour Bean Factory and sounding like a mixtape of every love song ever written.”

“★★★★★ "'A Dazzling Exercise in Excess.' Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit belt out chart-topping hits in the lavish screen-to-stage salute to truth, beauty, freedom, and love”

“‘Moulin Rouge!’ hits Broadway with a panache of pop.”