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Edinburgh Welcomes Moulin Rouge! The Musical

MEDIA RELEASE
May 16, 2024
The original Broadway company of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Photo by Matt Murphy

The Spectacular, Spectacular! global hit musical will launch its first ever World Tour at the Edinburgh Playhouse with performances from Friday 25 April to Saturday 14 June 2025.

Multi-award-winning global hit stage show Moulin Rouge! The Musical, will launch its first ever World Tour at the Edinburgh Playhouse with performances from Friday 25 April to Saturday 14 June 2025. For information and to be first in line for tickets, signup at moulinrougemusical.com.

Enter a world of splendour and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur, and glory! Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. A celebration of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and — above all — Love, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical — it is a state of mind.

As in the film, Moulin Rouge! The Musical celebrates over 160 years of music – from Offenbach to Lady Gaga. The stage musical features over 70 iconic songs, many from the movie as well as recent hits released since the movie premiered over 20 years ago.

Set in Paris, 1899, a world of indulgent beauty and unparalleled extravagance, of bohemians and aristocrats, of boulevardiers and reprobates, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the story of a lovesick American writer, Christian, and Satine, the dazzling star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub. 

When their lives collide at the Moulin Rouge, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be thwarted by the nightclub’s host and impresario, Harold Zidler, and The Duke of Monroth, the wealthy and entitled patron of the club who thinks he can buy anything he wants, including Satine. Together with his Bohemian friends – the brilliant and starving artist Toulouse-Lautrec, and the greatest tango dancer in all of Paris, Santiago – Christian stages a musical spectacular in an attempt to save the Moulin Rouge and win the heart of Satine.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical  is the winner of ten 2021 Tony Awards including Best Musical, an Olivier Award, two Drama League Awards including Outstanding Production of a Musical, five Drama Desk Awards and ten Outer Critics Circle Award Honor citations including New Broadway Musical.  

“Being the opening venue for the World Tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical is huge for our city and an honour for our theatre. We are excited to welcome audiences from all over Scotland and beyond to enjoy this truly iconic production.” says Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre Director, Gordon Millar.

“We are thrilled to be launching the world tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical in Edinburgh next Spring. A city renowned for creativity and artistic vision, we know that the bohemians and artisans of the Montmartre will be embraced with open arms. Welcome… to the Moulin Rouge!” says Carmen Pavlovic for Global Creatures, producer of the Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical is directed by Tony Award® winner Alex Timbers (other credits includeHere Lies Love, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher) with a book by Tony Award® winner John Logan (also three-time Academy Award nominee including for Gladiator and The Aviator), choreography by Tony Award® winner Sonya Tayeh (also Lucille Lortel Award for Kung Fu and Emmy winner)and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Tony Award® winner Justin Levine (other credits include Here Lies Love, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson).

The design team for Moulin Rouge! The Musical includes Tony Award® winner Derek McLane (sets; other credits include Beautiful – The Carole King Musical), Tony Award® and Olivier Award winner Catherine Zuber (costumes; other credits include The King & I, My Fair Lady), Tony Award® winner Justin Townsend (lighting), Tony Award® winner Peter Hylenski (sound), Drama Desk Award winner David Brian Brown (wig and hair design; other credits include Come From Away), Sarah Cimino (make-up design) and Tony Award® winner Matt Stine (Music Producer). Casting is by Pippa Ailion CDG and Natalie Gallacher CDG.

The World tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical  is produced by Carmen Pavlovic and Gerry Ryan OAM for Global Creatures and Bill Damaschke. Executive Producers of the World Tour are Angela Dalton and Nick Grace Management. General Management and Tour Booking by Nick Grace Management.

Casting is still to be announced.

LISTINGS

For information and to be first in line for tickets, signup at moulinrougemusical.com

Edinburgh Playhouse, 18-22 Greenside Pl, Edinburgh EH1 3AA

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Friday 25 April to Saturday 14 June 2025.

Press Contact
Ashley Sutherland at the Edinburgh Playhouse | ashleysutherland@theambassadors.com 

Media Contact

David Bloom, Story House, david.bloom@storyhousepr.co.uk / +44 (0)7980 297 299

NOTES TO EDITORS

Released by 20th Century Studios, Baz Luhrmann’s MOULIN ROUGE! premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. At the 74th Academy Awards®, the film was nominated for eight Oscars®, including Best Picture, and won two. 

The Moulin Rouge of Paris, managed by Jean-Jacques Clerico (CEO), is a dazzling and spectacular universe, the symbol of the Parisian way of celebrating since 1889. Starting life as a popular cabaret and dance hall, the venue became an iconic music hall in the Roaring Twenties, and then a theatre where numerous famous French and international artists stepped out into the limelight. Today, the Moulin Rouge and its 60 artists present the Féerie revue show: two hours of amazement between cabaret and music hall styles where dance scenes and surprise acts intersperse – without forgetting the Moulin Rouge’s most emblematic dance, the French Cancan! Since its creation, the Moulin Rouge of Paris has always been an invitation to live and share all the emotions and effervescence of a unique party extravaganza. http://www.moulinrouge.fr/ 

Global Creatures specialises in producing original theatrical works. The company has produced critically acclaimed productions Walking with Dinosaurs — The Arena Spectacular, How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, Strictly Ballroom The Musical, and King Kong. Muriel’s Wedding The Musical toured Australia in 2017 and is now being developed for international markets. Global Creatures’ Tony® Award-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical is playing on Broadway, the West End, Cologne and performing a North American tour. Moulin Rouge! The Musical opens in Tokyo and Osaka from June this year and premieres in the Netherlands in late 2024. Past productions have included Tokyo, Seoul and a sold-out Australian tour.

www.global-creatures.com

NGM is one of the world’s leading producers of international theatre productions and in the last 25 years has presented shows in 60 countries and regions worldwide, including MAMMA MIA! International & UK Tour, Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular, Blue Man Group World Tour, The Lion King, Wicked International Tour, Apollo 11 – The Immersive Live Show and Batman LIve – World Arena Tour. NGM are currently co-producers for the upcoming Les Misérables World Tour.

The Grammy-nominated Moulin Rouge! The Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording, produced by Baz Luhrmann, Justin Levine, Matt Stine & Alex Timbers, is now available by Baz Luhrmann’s label, House of Iona, and RCA Records. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Cast Album chart. Click here to listen to the album. 

The book Moulin Rouge! The Musical: The Story of the Broadway Spectacular, a glittering backstage pass to Moulin Rouge! The Musical and its journey to Broadway, is now available from Rizzoli.

MAC is the Official Makeup Partner and Preciosa is the Official Crystal Partner of Moulin Rouge! The Musical.