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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread

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EDSOSLO858
#350MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/22/25 at 3:13pm

Who here's seeing Wayne and Taye's first performance tonight? 


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#351MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/22/25 at 3:13pm

(double post)


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#352MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/22/25 at 3:16pm

David Harris just shared on stories that he’s going to be rejoining the tour in Tempe, Denver, and Mexico City, covering the current Duke’s paternity leave. 

Does anyone know what happened to his cancelled return to Moulin Rouge on Broadway? Or his disappearance from Old Friends?


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#353MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/22/25 at 11:20pm

Musical just posted a snippet of tonight’s encore megamix and bows. Brady sounds / looks FAB:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMbzjpSNSDs/?igsh=MXR4aWJibnB4bW1hdw==


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#354MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/23/25 at 10:08am

EDSOSLO858 said: "Musical just posted a snippet of tonight’s encore megamix and bows. Brady sounds / looks FAB:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMbzjpSNSDs/?igsh=MXR4aWJibnB4bW1hdw==
"

Brady does seem very comfortable and confident, and sounds excellent. Diggs looks about as uncomfortable as I’d expect. He will probably be the worst-sung Duke in the history of the show if his Fiyero is anything to go by. 


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#355MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/23/25 at 11:29am

Wayne is always comfortable on stage, just right at home. I honestly don't know why Taye still does Broadway. He was so weird and uncomfortable during Hedwig, it was truly painful.

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#356MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/23/25 at 11:49am

Sutton Ross said: "Wayne is always comfortable on stage, just right at home. I honestly don't know why Taye still does Broadway. He was so weird and uncomfortableduring Hedwig, it was truly painful."

Wayne should have done Hedwig, not Diggs. Diggs was also a terrible Billy Flynn.


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

Left Coast Theater Enjoyer
#357MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/27/25 at 2:43pm

Was there Weds.  Wayne Brady, as expected, shines and is a charismatic Zigler.  Christian Douglas looked like a longtime Broadway vet, not someone who had his Broadway debut the night before.  Ashley Loren is even better this time.  Diggs...WTAF.  Saw this on twitter that captures the thoughts of myself and several around me

https://x.com/nicciclaspells/status/1948995218545483847

 

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#358MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/27/25 at 2:52pm

Wow if the comments on that X thread above (about Diggs forgetting his lines and making them up) are correct, he should be fired.

Can you imagine if Diggs and Boy George opened together in the show? We would have ended up somewhere far away from Paris during their scenes…!


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Left Coast Theater Enjoyer
#359MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/27/25 at 3:26pm

Yes, there was a noticeable amount of, um, improv when I saw it.  I'll leave it at that...

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#360MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/27/25 at 9:08pm

Yeah, I saw the show at 5pm today and everything still looks good, everyone sounds good. Wayne is fantastic, energetic, and just really fun. I'm not sure why Taye wants to be on Broadway again but he straight up made up, like, full chunks of dialogue out of thin air. It was.....well I've never seen anything like it on stage before. Bizarre.

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#361MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/27/25 at 10:25pm

I’m seeing them toward the end of Taye’s run. I know when I saw his first week of HEDWIG, he was ROUGH - like I wasn’t sure he was gonna make it. At the relative same time, he was also finalizing his divorce with Idina Menzel and I want to think that may have played with his headspace a bit, especially considering HEDWIG is a bear of a show that’s mostly just one person and an onion’s worth of emotional layers.

Hearing that he’s floundering as the Duke is remarkably less forgivable. While I get that he hasn’t done stage acting in over 10 years, this seems like a natural role to re-enter the game in - a supporting role that just has to be suave, cocky, and can carry a tune with menace. He doesn’t have much in the way of choreography and isn’t really featured until midway through Act I. I’m curious as to what the barrier is, especially since he had at least 3-4 months to learn his lines


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#362MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/31/25 at 4:34pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Video-Taye-Diggs-Shares-That-His-Son-Cant-Stand-Musical-Theater-20250731
 

Neither can Taye, based on the effort he puts in. 


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#363MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/31/25 at 6:41pm

DottieD'Luscia said: "I saw on Instagram that Nicci Claspell was brought in with 2 hours notice yesterday to play Satine. She previously played Nini on tour, and a brief stint with the Broadway company late last year."

What's Nicci's role with the show now? Was she set to join the Bway company? Because she's gone on as Satine, Nini & Arabia quite a bit since this happened. Vacation cover?


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Crusty Bagel
#364MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 7/31/25 at 7:24pm

I saw the matinee yesterday, Nicci was great. The standout was definitely Christian Douglas who was amazing.  I thought Wayne Brady was fine, and Taye was also fine, not terrible but serviceable although he did mess up a line and had to start over.  The shows in good shape. 

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#365MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 8/1/25 at 9:31pm

Crusty Bagel said: "I saw the matinee yesterday, Nicci was great. The standout was definitely Christian Douglas who was amazing. I thought Wayne Brady was fine, and Taye was also fine, not terrible but serviceable although he did mess up a line and had to start over. The shows in good shape."

Just “fine” isn’t really a good thing when it comes to star/stunt casting. This show isn’t like CHICAGO where they have ways to change the components to fit each new performer. MR is much more intense and if you can’t keep up and deliver, people will notice.

Case in point for me: Casey Cott, who couldn’t hit a high note even if it was dangling in front of his eyes, and Boy George, who looked so winded about 20-25 minutes in that it seemed like elder abuse by the end.

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Crusty Bagel
#366MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 8/1/25 at 10:50pm

I think I might have enjoyed Taye more than Wayne.  I thought Wayne was serviceable but nothing nearly as good as Eric Anderson or Danny Burstein was.  Taye brought a certain swagger to the role that I really liked, he was definitely giving gangster like the show days.  It annoys me that we don’t know what happens to the Moulin Rouge at the end of the show. She dies, what does he do with the theater?  Anyway, there was a glitch on TDF so I only paid 27 bucks that was supposed to be for grads. 

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#367MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 8/7/25 at 11:04pm

Bobby Daye is returning as Toulouse for 5 weeks only starting 8/12

https://www.instagram.com/p/DND-6l1OCvd/?igsh=c2R1cmt3cXo0aW1v


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#368MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
Posted: 8/14/25 at 12:29am

One of my loved ones saw this tonight and quite liked Bobby and Wayne in their roles. 

Taye was out, so that person didn't miss anything. :)


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Updated On: 8/14/25 at 12:29 AM


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