The curtain will come down at Crown Theatre Perth on Friday 21 st April on a completely 100% sold out Perth season for the ten-time Tony Award® winning musical produced by Carmen Pavlovic and Gerry Ryan OAM for Australian theatrical company, Global Creatures.
The Australian premiere season commenced in Melbourne in November 2021, and since lifting its curtain around Australia has welcomed nearly one million Australian theatregoers with sold out seasons in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. The Brisbane season opens in May 2023 and will be a sell-out season as well.
Producer Carmen Pavlovic:
Despite a delayed opening because of the pandemic in 2021, we still achieved a sold-out season in Melbourne. Sydney’s season was also incredibly successful, and so special because it was the city where Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin filmed MOULIN ROUGE! in 2001, and it was where our partnership to bring their film to the stage began, in 2009. Perth has continued this outstanding welcome, and Brisbane will be next.
We owe our success to the audiences across the country who welcomed us with their arms wide and hearts open. Our run in Australia hasn’t been without its Covid related challenges. However, our Australian cast, crew, theatre partners and production suppliers, have all demonstrated their incredible energy, dedication and hard work as we navigated a substantially smaller workforce because of the pandemic. This makes the success of the Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane seasons so rewarding given the challenges that not only our production, but other shows have experienced, over the last few years.
Almost 120 direct jobs were created to bring the show to life in Australia, including the 36 performers who take to the stage eight times a week, the equally talented and hardworking creatives, local and touring backstage crew who make the show run smoothly, and the countless suppliers and agencies that are employed by the production. Most of the set was built in Australia, including 20 people who took over two months to build the giant red windmill, to the 30 truck drivers tasked with moving the show from state to state as it travels around Australia; a journey that shifts 793 individual costume pieces plus wigs, set, props and musical instruments each time. The costumes were all hand-made in Sydney by a team of over 50 people, including Satine’s quintessential sparkling gown which is decorated with over 3,500 hand-placed Preciosa crystals.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical partnered with MAC nationally and local businesses in every state, including The Westin Melbourne; The Kimpton Margot Sydney, Nel Restaurant, Black Star Pastry and Blow Bar Co. in Sydney; Crown Perth in WA; and Hotel Indigo Brisbane City Centre in QLD, to encourage theatregoers to extend their experience, benefitting other city businesses and broadening the direct and indirect economic impact of the show for each state.
in Perth, with the hope of combatting current industry-wide staff shortages and inspiring a new generation to pursue a career in live entertainment as production creatives, crew and technicians.
The return Melbourne season in August 2023 marks a full-circle moment for the production, which premiered to stellar reviews at the Regent Theatre in 2021. Melbourne was the first international city to host the 10-time Tony Award winning show after its dazzling Broadway debut, with the season also coinciding with the 20th anniversary year of Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film.
PERTH
BRISBANE
MELBOURNE RETURN
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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.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is directed by Tony Award ® winner Alex Timbers (other credits include Here 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 and 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). Australian casting is by Lisa Campbell and Jim Carnahan.
Enter a world of splendour and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular spectacular… Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
Baz Luhrmann’s iconic film comes to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a theatrical celebration of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and – above all – Love. Moulin Rouge! The Musical is more than a musical; it is a state of mind.
Released by 20 th 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.
As in the film, Moulin Rouge! The Musical celebrates over 160 years of music – from Offenbach to Lady Gaga. The stage musical features many of the iconic songs from the movie and also includes recent hits released since the movie premiered over 20 years ago.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is produced by Carmen Pavlovic and Gerry Ryan OAM for Global Creatures and Bill Damaschke, and is currently playing on Broadway, the West End, and is touring North America and Australia. The production opened in Cologne, Germany and Seoul, South Korea in late 2022 and
will open in Tokyo, Japan in mid-2023. The Executive Producer of the Australian production is Angela Dalton, Global Creatures.
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