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Moulin Rouge! The Musical :The Story of the Broadway Spectacular

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Moulin Rouge! The Musical
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical :The Story of the Broadway Spectacular

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4.55 (56 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 6 September, 2022

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An iconic Parisian club, a cinema masterpiece, and now Broadway musical the Moulin Rouge has been a fascinating phenomenon of popular culture for over a century. The 2019 Broadway debut of Moulin Rouge! The Musical astounded theatre critics the New York Times Ben Brantley declaring the show euphoric and his Critic s Pick. It quickly became near impossible to get a ticket, breaking box office records for the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, with a slew of locals, tourists, and celebrities lining up to visit the latest incarnation of the red windmill. How was it that a musical, based on a twenty-year-old film, which in turn was inspired by a 130-year-old French club, was able to electrify Broadway? Celebrated theatre writer and critic David Cote has been given unrestricted access to the show s creative team, cast, and crew to retrace the steps of how Moulin Rouge! The Musical came to be. From a 2009 meeting with Baz Luhrmann in Sydney, chance introductions, years of music rights negotiation and re-writes, not to mention a partial theatre collapse and a pandemic, come what may, this was a show that was destined to be made. In six chapters of lush photo essay, the process of crafting Moulin Rouge! The Musical comes to life with images drawn from the creative team s personal archives, from early sketches, to swatches, historical research, technical diagrams, and photos. Accompanied with first-hand accounts of the highs and lows of creating a show that referenced as much as it reinvented the Broadway musical, this is a book for bohemians and aristocrats alike.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780789339027
ISBN10 0789339021
Number Of Pages 192
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Universe Publishing
Format hardback
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"Moulin Rouge! is about more, more, MORE, and this lavish coffee-table book pays homage in kind. It’s big. It’s beautiful. And it shares the journey of Baz Luhrmann’s film from screen to stage with all the style and pizzazz you’d expect." —BROADWAY DIRECT

"The Tony-winning musical gets the book treatment via photo essay and oral history, offering a behind-the-scenes the process of crafting the show." —THEATRELY.COM

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Baz Luhrmann is an Australian filmmaker, writer, and producer known for his lavish productions, best known for Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet and The Great Gatsby. David Cote is an arts writer, playwright, and librettist based in New York City. His reporting and reviews appear in 4 Columns, American Theatre, and Observer. He has written popular companion books about the hit Broadway musicals Wicked, Jersey Boys, and Spring Awakening. Alex Timbers is the cocreator of Mozart in the Jungle and director of shows including Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Beetlejuice, Oh hello! On Broadway among many others.

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