MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread- Page 15
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#350
Posted: 7/22/25 at 3:13pm
Who here's seeing Wayne and Taye's first performance tonight?
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#351
Posted: 7/22/25 at 3:13pm
(double post)
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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#352
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?
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#353
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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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#354
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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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#355
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.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#356
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.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#357
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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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#358
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…!
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#359
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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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#360
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.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#361
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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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#362
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.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#363
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?
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#364
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.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#365
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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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#366
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.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#367
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
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#368
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. :)
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#369
Posted: 9/8/25 at 9:39am
DADDY DUKE RETURNS! (Tuesday, Sept 30th)
Honestly, he’s damn good at the role because he offsets his handsome appearance with true menace.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/David-Harris-Will-Return-to-MOULIN-ROUGE-as-The-Duke-of-Monroth-20250908?_gl=1*146co51*_gcl_au*MTI4OTgzNTAyOC4xNzUyNzY5MDc4*_ga*ODAzNjIxMTE0LjE2MTk2NDczNjY.*_ga_0Y18T6LY3T*czE3NTczMzY2MDUkbzE0MzckZzEkdDE3NTczMzg0NzUkajU4JGwxJGgxOTE1NzIzMzgkZHBodEpROTU3QkJEYms0akpfcU4zZ2ZjeWNGaVpZZjFNVnc.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#370
Posted: 9/8/25 at 9:45am
EDSOSLO858 said: "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. :)"
I honestly hope they’re giving Patrick Clanton a nice raise with his next contract. Between him covering Andre Ward and Austin Durant (often multiple times per week) earlier this year, and covering Wayne frequently during his stint, I can’t think of another standby in recent memory who has been on so much that he may as well be a principal.
Who covers the Duke now? Dylan Paul left the cast a while ago and Aaron C. Finley, I think, just left/is on his way out
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#371
Posted: 9/8/25 at 10:42am
quizking101 said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "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. :)"
I honestly hope they’re giving Patrick Clanton a nice raise with his next contract. Between him covering Andre Ward and Austin Durant (often multiple times per week) earlier this year, and covering Wayne frequently during his stint, I can’t think of another standby in recent memory who has been on so much that he may as well be a principal.
Who covers the Duke now? Dylan Paul left the cast a while ago and Aaron C. Finley, I think, just left/is on his way out"
Jack Cahill-Lemme is the other current cover
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#372
Posted: 9/8/25 at 11:54am
quizking101 said: "DADDY DUKE RETURNS! (Tuesday, Sept 30th)
Honestly, he’s damn good at the role because he offsets his handsome appearance with true menace.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/David-Harris-Will-Return-to-MOULIN-ROUGE-as-The-Duke-of-Monroth-20250908?_gl=1*146co51*_gcl_au*MTI4OTgzNTAyOC4xNzUyNzY5MDc4*_ga*ODAzNjIxMTE0LjE2MTk2NDczNjY.*_ga_0Y18T6LY3T*czE3NTczMzY2MDUkbzE0MzckZzEkdDE3NTczMzg0NzUkajU4JGwxJGgxOTE1NzIzMzgkZHBodEpROTU3QkJEYms0akpfcU4zZ2ZjeWNGaVpZZjFNVnc."
Did we ever figure out why he was fired from Old Friends?
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MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#373
Posted: 9/8/25 at 12:11pm
I suspect the size of the role was less than he’d anticipated, or perhaps there was more ensemble singing than he’d anticipated, and that this was an “I’m out!” situation.
As many will know from his Instagram, image and optics are more important to him than the average bear, and knowing him socially, the ego is significant.
I’m happy to be wrong, but my guess is that he felt misaligned with the project when he saw what would be required.
MOULIN ROUGE! Broadway Casting Thread#374
Posted: 9/8/25 at 3:59pm
Was he actually fired from Sondheim?
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