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| Jay Armstrong Johnson and Arianna Rosario Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade |
highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
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"The national tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, which won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a dazzling, high-energy spectacle that transports audiences straight into the heart of Paris' most infamous cabaret with nonstop, over-the-top theatricality. Based on Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, the stage adaptation takes the movie's blend of romance, tragedy, and pop music and cranks it up to a theatrical fever pitch. It's bold, vibrant, and constantly entertaining, with lush creative elements that offer a visual feast, even if the relentless parade of pop song mash-ups that make up the show's score sometimes overwhelms the story and threatens to turn it into a musical where the spectacle outweighs the story." - Gil Benbrook, TalkinBroadway.com (click here to read the complete review)
"this stage adaptation bathes its audience in sensory overload from the moment you enter the auditorium....But it’s in the music that the show courts both its most brazen triumphs and its biggest missteps. This is a jukebox musical that dives headlong with its head spinning. ...Sometimes the results are raucously fun; at other times, it feels like wandering into a particularly expensive karaoke night...Still, for all its clashing parts, like an overstuffed jewelry box where diamonds, pearls, and plastic trinkets jangle together, MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL’s visuals are hard to resist, and that’s what most audiences will respond to. It sparkles wonderfully even when it confuses." - David Appleford, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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