Moulin Rouge! (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if You like high energy, high spectacle non-stop action. There is almost no time to catch your breath from one over the top number to the next.
Don't see it if Your a movie purist. They have changed things up a bit. There are some different songs, newer and fresher and they’ve tweaked the story. Read more
See it if A show that is campy in first act and very serious in second act. A glitzy production.
Don't see it if Choreography that resembles MTV s . If you want a show with less bravado. It never gains the movie vibe with camyness of the first act.
See it if A fun entertaining spectacle. Stunning sets and costumes. Karen Olivo was incredible. A tad hammy with some of the pop medley mashups.
Don't see it if You don’t like shows based on movies or with pop song scores.
See it if you like big shows-costumes, sound, lights, choreography and a completely staged theater bring you back to the 1899 club with a good story.
Don't see it if you would not enjoy an updated version of prior productions where contemporary music replaces much of the score.
See it if u want to see expert pop mashup karoake trying to coalesce a shallow, hollow, unconvincing story w/in a flashy, expensive, sexy spectacle.
Don't see it if you aren't interested in a manipulative, feel-good tragedy, sanitized for the masses & pandering to tourists; u value substance over style. Read more
See it if high energy fun entertainment is your idea of a good time. Gorgeous cast in marvelous costumes singing & dancing delightfully over the top
Don't see it if loud & predicable disturbs you. Voices are super amplified. The plot is an excuse for the dancing & singing. There is no original music.
See it if full Broadway spectacle, big cast, set & costumes flood your senses; fun 1st act send-up of love songs; Karen Olivo outstanding lead
Don't see it if little nuance or wit; no original music/all juke box love tunes; 2nd act is cliche-ridden & melodramatic; the opposite of Sondheim
See it if Lavish French dancehall nightclub spectacle with doomed romance & high production value at its coeur. Top 40 playlist. Luxe sets & costumes.
Don't see it if Jukebox.But whose jukebox?Vastly entertaining, but mind the bloat.As if trapped on a road trip w/ passenger w/ jittery fingers on radiodial. Read more
Critic Reviews (29)
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."
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★★★★ "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."
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"'Moulin Rouge!' Is Broadway’s Biggest Karaoke Night. It commits singlemindedly to stuffing as many additional hit tracks as possible."
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"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."
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"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."
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B+ "'Moulin Rouge!' becomes an extravagant, head-spinning Broadway musical."
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"The luscious 2001 movie hit makes it successfully to the stage — elephant and all — in this gorgeously flashy version."
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"‘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."
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"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."
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"‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ Review: All You Need Is Love Songs By The Dozens"
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"Will you love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ as a stage musical? Well, you’ll certainly fall in like."
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★★★★ "NYC’s hottest nightclub is on Broadway"
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"Broadway’s ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ is dazzling, decadent live translation of 2001 movie."
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1.5 stars (out of 4) "'Moulin Rouge!' review: Great cast and dazzling set can't save this Broadway botch job."
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"With tongue in cheek and heart in hand, not to mention assorted other body parts splitting, contorting and can-canning up a storm, 'Moulin Rouge' is a jukebox musical on steroids. And thanks to a very savvy adaptation from book writer John Logan and director Alex Timbers, it’s paced for maximum pleasure."
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"'Moulin Rouge!' on Broadway Is Spectacular, Spectacular. The first musical of the 2019-20 season sets a high bar for showmanship."
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“‘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.”
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"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."
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"'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."
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★★★★★ "'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"
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★★★★ "'All You Need Is Love (and Showmanship).' Baz Luhrmann's hit bohemian-Paris movie gets bigger and bolder for Broadway."
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"‘Moulin Rouge!’ hits Broadway with a panache of pop."
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“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.”
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"A brightly wrapped, intricately decorated package with little inside. It's racy, sometimes vulgar, and always indifferent to historical context and narrative logic. This makes it just the right stuff for the Trump era..."
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"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..."
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"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."
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"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."
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"You'll want to come early not just to take in all that scenery, but to see the talented ensemble - in various states of dress - wriggling, writhing and executing Sonya Tayeh's slithery, athletic movement in a pre-show like none you've ever seen."
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"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."
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