Ah, L’amour. That glowing neon red scrawl, the love symbol that, as surely as a signature, tells you ‘Baz Luhrmann was here’.

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It was a Broadway smash with big plans until 25 company members took ill and a shutdown put everybody out of work. Inside a tumultuous year, in the words of those who lived it.

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The most significant musical to debut in Melbourne next year has been given the green light with Moulin Rouge! to open in August at the Regent Theatre.

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Mash-up and remix are the origin story of the Broadway musical. Take 19th-century European operetta, add jazz, toss in chorus girls and clowns — you’ve got yourself a show. Next, take this newfangled vaudeville musical, add a book with tears and suspense — you’ve got Show Boat. Weave the score and book more tightly — […]

Australian production company Global Creatures has scored a record-breaking number of Tony Award nominations after the stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge picked up 14 nods overnight. This is the most nominations an Australian production company has received in the history of the prestigious theatrical awards.

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It’s the Australian show taking Broadway by storm, and now the $40 million stage production of Baz Luhrmann’s hit film, Moulin Rouge, is coming to Melbourne’s Regent Theatre.

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Finding spots for the pop songs, credited to 161 writers, and getting the rights, was no cancan.

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