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Moulin Rouge! The Musical will kick off its North American tour in February 2022, two years after the originally scheduled opening date that was knocked out by the Covid-19 pandemic. Producers are now targeting Feb. 26, 2022, for the start of performances at Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre. Opening night will…

Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical and The Inheritance were named outstanding musical and play of the 2019-20 theater season by New York’s Drama League, the organization announced today. The 86th Annual Drama League Awards – announced virtually in lieu of an in-person gathering – covered the shortened theater season…

Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Grand Horizons, Mary-Louise Parker and Jonathan Groff are among this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards recipients, a collection of Broadway and Off Broadway recipients that make up the organization’s first-ever slate of multiple honorees. With the Tony…

The Inheritance, Sea Wall/A Life, Slave Play and Girl From The North Country are among the Broadway nominees of this year’s Drama League Awards, along with a significant shows of Off Broadway productions. Honoring productions that opened during the COVID-shortened 2019-2020 season, the nominations were announced by Bee…

Broadway actor Aaron Tveit, star of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, announced today that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and has been in quarantine since the March 12 Broadway shutdown. “I'm feeling much better,” Tveit reports on his Instagram account (see it below). “I consider myself extremely lucky that my symptoms…

UPDATE, with producer statement Broadway’s hit musical Moulin Rouge! canceled today’s matinee and evening performances prior to the announced industry-wide shutdown, but producers of the musical note that no one with the show or its venue has tested positive for the coronavirus. "No one at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre…

With Broadway’s fall wave of new productions mostly still finding their seats last week, several of the more established – recently established, but established – smashes kept doing what they do, selling out and breaking records. To Kill a Mockingbird, Moulin Rouge! and Hadestown raked it in, helping Broadway’s…

Moulin Rouge! The Musical, one of the biggest Broadway hits in recent seasons, will take its hits on the road next year, with tech rehearsals for the first North American tour premiering in November at New Orleans’ Saenger Theatre before settling into a 10-week run at Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre. Additional…

Broadway box office held steady last week, with grosses of $33,730,889 and a total attendance of 270,067 for the week ending August 4. Adding to the tally was the $956,611 from five performances of Barry Manilow’s 17-show engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Manilow, in the final summer residency concert series at…

Even the most wholly original works of art can, in the service of story or character or heart, summon the stray memory, the whispery chill of déjà vu. They’ll switch on the bittersweet recall of better times or drip-drop echoey little splashes of the worst. Most, though, remember to turn the damn spigot off. Watching B…

With the plug pulled on its Saturday night, Broadway got zinged with a 10% tumble at the box office last week. While other factors entered the equation – there were three fewer shows on the boards than the previous week – the cancellation of 26 individual performances due to the Manhattan blackout no doubt took a…

Two performances in and Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical is kicking up some significant bucks. With a whopping average ticket price of $237 — second only to the mighty $299 Hamilton — director Alex Timbers’ adaptation of the 2001 movie hit grossed an attention-getting $618,889 for two previews. Playing two…