Moulin Rouge launches National Tour in 2020

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/MOULIN-ROUGE-Will-Hit-the-Road-and-Launch-National-Tour-in-2020-20190919

Will be interesting to see what kind of alterations the set will need. Very interested to hear eventual casting.

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Updated On: 9/19/19 at 11:19 AM

Being from New Orleans, I am so excited for this.  Will look BEAUTIFUL in the Saenger Theater.  Loved it in NYC. 

Luminaire2 said: "I wonder when broadways projected to recoup if they are announcing already? I guess they are also vying hard for some Tony’s."

Assuming its weekly operating costs are $1 million a week, it should recoup its $28mil capitalization around Week 30 of its run –– as long as these staggeringly high grosses continue.

I still question its staying power on Broadway. It's doing amazing business now, but there's no telling what it will be like in the next 6-18 months. If it pulls a Harry Potter (or Spider-Man) and grosses drop to the low $1m range, that's going to be hard to sustain.

It’s nice that they’ve announced a tour, gets folks all pumped up, but if I’m reading that blurb correctly it really won’t start touring until 2021, after it techs in New Orleans then competes a 10-week sit-down in Chicago. That makes it around Feb 2021 before it hits the actual first touring city.

This show will look absolutely beautiful in the Nederlander and I can’t wait to see it first hand. It will be fun to watch this and Frozen duke it out in Chicago together.

As far as other musicals that can win the tony award over this.... Girl From The North Country, Flying Over Sunset, Six, Jagged Little Pill, Diana(if it changes enough), and Tina all seem like contenders for the award.

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Updated On: 9/19/19 at 01:52 PM

Excuse my naiveté, by the term "second company," I assume MR plans to run on Broadway the same time as the National Tour? 

dmwnc1959 said: "if I’m reading that blurb correctly it really won’t start touring until 2021, after it techs in New Orleans then competes a 10-week sit-down in Chicago. That makes it around Feb 2021 before it hits the actual first touring city."

The 10 weeks in Chicago is part of the tour, it's not a "sitdown" unless it's contracted and capitalized as such; and a sitdown of a show this expensive wouldn't run just 10 weeks. Tech in New Orleans also usually means a few performances there (sometimes a week), like DOLLY did upstate.

 

Stage Door Sally said: "Excuse my naiveté, by the term "second company," I assume MR plans to run on Broadway the same time as the National Tour?"

Yes, the tour does not change anything for the Broadway company. They'll have separate casts (though it's not unprecedented for a Broadway understudy to step up to the lead role for the tour).

Wayman_Wong said: "I can't recall another new musical announcing its national tour so early in its Broadway run. Obviously, they're emboldened by their incredible box office. Can't wait to see the casting for the tour."

Really? Not one?? Just look back at press releases around the time of the Tony nominations the past five or so seasons and get back to me.

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Call_me_jorge said: "Really? Not one?? Just look back at press releases around the time of the Tony nominations the past five or so seasons and get back to me."

The exception here is that by announcing the tech city and Chicago engagement that makes it much more likely to actually happen as opposed to a lot of those nebulous "yes, we're going to go on tour" announcements that happen around awards season and then never materialize.

Honestly, even though this tour is still a year out, I think it's a much smarter move for them. They'll already have venues booked by the time awards season starts and that makes it a much more attractive candidate for the road voters to show it some Tony love (note, I don't think the road voters are the be all/end all of voters, but you can't deny they play an important part in the campaign process). So many shows nowadays seem to take so long to get their tours organized that they lose any of that initial advertising push they may have had from their respective awards season.

Luminaire2 said: "I have a feeling this show will be a Wicked. Any contenders against it for Best Musical?"

Girl From The North Country is a more likely winner.

NOLAguy said: "Being from New Orleans, I am so excited for this. Will look BEAUTIFUL in the Saenger Theater. Loved it in NYC."

I'm with ya! I saw it over the summer, and when I came back down here from vacation and told my friends about it they wished they were there. I immediately told them when the news broke, and we're already making plans to go :)

I had tickets to the first preview but sadly couldn’t make it.

I was disappointed by some of the changes I had heard.

Now hearing the soundtrack I feel they’ve striped it of it’s heart and it’s just a thumping pop concert.

I was excited to hear the Shirley Bassey intro into Sparkling Diamond but to continue into Single Ladies and I can’t remember how many songs, the whole recording sounded like the Jospeh Mega-Mix on Crack.

The moments from the film I loved were the choral Come What May, the tango opening and operatic end of Roxanne and the heartbreaking The Show Must Go on.

I don’t know how it would win Best Musical but it depends on what’s coming I guess.

I still hope to see it but I’ll hold out for the West End or if I’m over in NYC. I definitely won’t be making a special trip to see it.