Bord Gáis Energy Theatre has announced that multi-award-winning hit stage show Moulin Rouge! The Musical will have its Irish premiere in Dublin November 2025 as part of its first ever World Tour.
The global hit will begin performances at the theatre from Thursday 20 November 2025 to Sunday 11 January 2026.
Baz Luhrmann’s film is coming to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up stage show.
As in the film, Moulin Rouge! The Musical celebrates over 160 years of music, from Offenbach to Lady Gaga. The stage musical features over 70 songs, many from the movie as well as recent hits released since the movie premiered over 20 years ago.
Set in Paris in 1899, it's the story of a lovesick American writer, Christian, and Satine, the star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub.
When their lives collide, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be thwarted by the nightclub’s host and impresario, Harold Zidler, and The Duke of Monroth, the wealthy and entitled patron of the club who thinks he can buy anything he wants, including Satine.
Together with his Bohemian friends - the artist Toulouse-Lautrec, and the greatest tango dancer in all of Paris, Santiago - Christian stages a musical spectacular in an attempt to save the Moulin Rouge and win the heart of Satine.
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.
"We are thrilled that the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre will host Moulin Rouge! The Musical next year as part of its world tour," says Carmen Pavlovic for Global Creatures, producer of the show.
"Dublin is packed to the brim with music, creativity, and good craic! A fantastic city which will make the perfect stage for this spectacular show over the festive season. We hope Ireland is ready to rouge!"
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers (Here Lies Love, Beetlejuice, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher), with a book by John Logan, choreography by Sonya Tayeh and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Justin Levine, who are all also Tony Award winners.
For more information and to be first in line for tickets, sign up at moulinrougemusical.com
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