Moulin Rouge! The Musical (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (572)
See it if If you love burlesque and a show that is a little naughty at times, then this is the show for you. Plus phenomenal music performances
Don't see it if You are not open minded
See it if You want a great night out. You live an eclectic range of music.
Don't see it if Red is not your favourite colour… the set is very red!
See it if you want a great night out, with a spectacular cast, an excellent and clever mash up of popular songs and a hugely talented cast
Don't see it if you are a theatre snob who looks down upon jukebox musicals
See it if Enthralling racy exciting & romantic. Boy meets girl, secrets & sadness. Can-can, Burlesque. Big, bold, fun. Fantastic costumes & set.
Don't see it if …racy offends.
See it if You love the movie and pop music and big dance numbers
Don't see it if You expect a carbon copy of the movie
See it if You’re into musical theatre, or were a fan of the film. This answers the question, who’s best West End or Broadway - West End comfortably
Don't see it if You’re not looking for a musical, or for a great spectacle. This is a very high quality show.
See it if you want something big and enjoy a proper musical production
Don't see it if you don’t like mash up songs and are expecting a copy of the film
See it if You want the biggest spectacle in London right now, it's not Shakespeare but this show puts in the work and is in a league of own
Don't see it if You don't like musicals or want something emotionally challenging
Critic Reviews (10)
Alex Timbers’ production excels when it seduces the eye, not the mind or the heart: Derek McLane’s sets and Catherine Zuber’s costumes are essays in polychromatic fabulousness.
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...director Alex Timbers’s dementedly maximalist ‘remix’ of Baz Luhrmann’s smash 2001 film is pure sensory overload...for all its tongue-in-cheek chutzpah, when the music stops you’re not left with much.
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The whole experience is awash with sure-footed dance: sensuous, fleet and duly delivering those signature can-can moves in a riot of petticoat lifting and high-kicking. Yet there’s little disguising the slender narrative arc...
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Calling this show a mash-up is an understatement: it’s more like pouring a few hundredweight of melodies into a cement mixer lorry and adding several tons of rhinestones.
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From the second you enter you know what to expect: a musical with a heart of gold that seeks to entertain and overwhelm in equal measure. It is so over the top, it's irresistible.
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It’s kitsch, joyful hedonism writ large, bursting with sparklers, streamers and technicolour vitality – and powered by a cast who know only too well that you should perform every show as though it could be your last. Irresistible entertainment.
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It’s a shell of a show, all noise and no signal, instantly crumbling into its own lack of substance.
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There is a lot to love: with a wonderfully wild energy throughout, it’s happily queerer than the film, and the well-known songs really are spectacular.
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