The West End production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical will welcome a number of new cast members next month as the hit show extends into its fifth year at the Piccadilly Theatre.
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Moulin Rouge! world tour – cast confirmed
The cast has been unveiled for the first world touring production of hit show Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
Moulin Rouge world tour to launch in UK in 2025
Hit show Moulin Rouge! The Musical will embark on its first world tour in 2025 with audiences in the UK lined up to get the first glimpse of the touring production.
New Satine and Christian for West End’s Moulin Rouge
The West End production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical will welcome a new cast of bohemians and aristocrats next month as the hit show enters its third year at the Piccadilly Theatre.
Moulin Rouge The Musical – Piccadilly Theatre
Moulin Rouge! The Musical continues at the Piccadilly Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ From the moment you enter the Piccadilly Theatre’s transformed auditorium – complete with elaborately wrought red and gold metal work, giant blue elephant, and lounging, corseted performers – the investment of artistic (and financial) resources is inescapably and impressively evident. In almost every way, this is a great thing. The experience is decadent, opulent, beautiful: everything about it is Moulin Rouge.
V&A celebrates musicals with new display
Paul O’Grady’s Miss Hannigan costume from the 1998 West End revival of Annie is among the new acquisitions to feature in a major new display celebrating musicals at the V&A museum. The popular entertainer’s gift is one of over 100 objects in the Re:Imagining Musicals exhibition in the V&A’s Theatre and Performance galleries.
New cast for Moulin Rouge! The Musical
The West End production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical will welcome a number of new cast members next month as the hit show enters its second year at the Piccadilly Theatre. From 17 October 2022, Melissa James (The Bodyguard UK tour, Cats, UK tour) will play showgirl Satine, opposite Jamie Muscato (Heathers: The Musical, The […]
Teenage Cancer Trust and Moulin Rouge unite for special charity gala
Hit show Moulin Rouge! The Musical will play a special gala performance in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the Piccadilly Theatre on 29 September 2022. The exclusive event which will feature VIP guests and a glitzy Rouge carpet experience will raise money to fund the charity’s specialist nurses, youth support teams and hospital […]
West End LIVE – first 34 shows confirmed and rooftop preview pop-ups planned
Thirty-four of the West End’s most popular shows will be on hand to turn London’s iconic Trafalgar Square into the ultimate open-air theatre when West End LIVE returns to the capital in June The organisers of the crowd-pleasing live entertainment event have revealed the list of 34 shows already confirmed to feature in the weekend […]
September date announced for Magic At The Musicals concert
Magic Radio’s popular Magic At The Musicals will return to the Royal Albert Hall on 18 September 2022. Announced by Ronan Keating and Harriet Scott on their Magic Radio breakfast show, tickets for the all-star celebration of the best of musical theatre will be available to buy from the Magic Radio website from 9am on […]
Cabaret triumphs with seven awards at Olivier Awards 2022 while Back To The Future wins Best New Musical
The winners have been unveiled for this year’s Olivier Awards with Mastercard, British theatre’s biggest night, which took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Jason Manford. The biggest winner of the night was Cabaret, a revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical which has transformed the West End’s Playhouse Theatre […]
Performances and presenter line-up announced for Olivier Awards 2022
With under a week to go until the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard, details have been revealed for British theatre’s most prestigious and glamorous night, including the star-studded list of award presenters and performances. The Olivier Awards take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall – returning after a two-year pandemic hiatus […]
Cabaret leads nominations for Olivier Awards 2022
Musicals are once again making their presence felt in the nominations for the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard with the innovative West End revival of Cabaret topping the list with 11 nominations. In the running for the Magic Radio Best Musical Revival, the production which has transformed the Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club […]
Hosts and performances revealed for 22nd WhatsOnStage Awards
West End star Jodie Prenger and Celebs Go Dating’s Tom Read Wilson will return to host the 22nd annual WhatsOnStage Awards at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 27 February 2022. The duo will be joined by star presenters Chris Bush, Graziano Di Prima, Omari Douglas, James Graham, David Harewood, Frances Mayli McCann, Stephanie McKeon, […]
Moulin Rouge! The Musical – Piccadilly Theatre
Moulin Rouge! The Musical continues at the Piccadilly Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It is hard to envisage now, some 20 years on, just how remarkable and visually unique Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! was when it hit cinemas in 2001. Not only was it a period in which movie […]
Moulin Rouge! to celebrate opening night on 9 January 2022
In the week when preview performances of Moulin Rouge! The Musical have resumed in the West End, the show’s producers have announced the production will now celebrate its official opening night at the Piccadilly Theatre on 9 January 2022. To allow the venue to welcome back audiences further Covid health and safety measures are being […]
Moulin Rouge! wins Best Musical Tony Award
Moulin Rouge! The Musical dominated the musical categories at the 74th Tony Awards, a long-delayed, abbreviated contest honouring the best of the 2019/2020 Broadway season, cut short by the Coronavirus pandemic. The lavish stage version of the Baz Luhrmann 2001 hit movie Moulin Rouge! won the Best Musical prize, beating out just two other nominees, […]
Cast unveiled for Moulin Rouge’s West End debut
Liisi LaFontaine has won the coveted role of Santine in the first UK production of the stage musical version of Baz Luhrmann’s vibrant movie Moulin Rouge. The actress who previously starred as Deena Jones in the Savoy Theatre production of Dreamgirls, will step into the role famously played by Nicole Kidman on screen opposite West […]
Tony Awards set September date
Remember the Tony Awards? They’re those coveted statuettes handed out annually, under the auspices of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, for theatrical excellence on the Broadway stages. Nominees for the past 2019/2020 season – a season abruptly cut short in March 2020 by the government-mandated shutting of theatres in the face of […]
Moulin Rouge musical to open in the West End in November 2021
The producers of the eagerly-anticipated first UK production of the stage musical version of Baz Luhrmann’s vibrant Moulin Rouge have confirmed the show will now sashay into London’s Piccadilly Theatre in November. Originally due to follow its success on Broadway by opening in London in March, the spectacular show will now begin its West End […]
Broadway shutdown extended / Tony nominations announced
The entire 2020-2021 Broadway season has disappeared, swallowed up in the unyielding maw of the Coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, a passel of New York theatre-makers have reason to celebrate with the unveiling of the Tony Award nominations for the 2019-2020 season, as abbreviated as it was. A date for the awards presentation, however, is yet to […]
Moulin Rouge UK debut delayed until autumn 2021
The producers of the eagerly-anticipated first UK production of the stage musical version of Baz Luhrmann’s vibrant Moulin Rouge have confirmed the show will now sashay into London’s Piccadilly Theatre a few months later than planned in the autumn of 2021. Originally due to follow its success on Broadway by opening in London in March […]
Musical Theatre Review 2019 – Five-Star Show Round-Up
Musical Theatre Review reflects on another stunning and diverse year of theatre. Here is a round-up of five star reviews from 2019 productions in the West End, on the London Fringe, in the regions and on tour (plus a sprinkling of Broadway openings too). With thanks to all our awesome contributors. JANUARY 2019 Songs For Nobodies […]
