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Ricky Live Live is one of the best things I’ve seen in a while. Like damn man 😍😍🤯🤯

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From Olutayo Bosede’s Instagram story, 4/15/19

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Fuse followed me around for a day during one of my shoots recently, check it out!

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Moulin Rouge! The Musical - Broadway

December 2019 | StarCuffedJeans’ master Format: MP4 HD Cast: Aaron Tveit (Christian), Karen Olivo (Satine), Danny Burstein (Harold Zidler), Sahr Ngaujah (Toulouse-Lautrec), Ricky Rojas (Santiago), Tam Mutu (The Duke), Kyle Brown, Jodi McFadden (u/s Nini), Jacqueline B Arnold (La Chocolat), Holly James (Arabia), Jeigh Madjus (Baby Doll), Reed Luplau (Pierre) Notes: Beautiful HD capture of the Original Broadway Cast. Starts after "Welcome to the Moulin Rouge!". Filmed in 16:9 with a mix of wides, mediums, and close-ups.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical - Broadway

January 2020 | StarCuffedJeans’ master Format: MP4

Cast: Aaron Tveit (Christian), Amber Ardolino (u/s Satine), Danny Burstein (Harold Zidler), Sahr Ngaujah (Toulouse-Lautrec), Ricky Rojas (Santiago), Dylan Paul (u/s The Duke), Robyn Hurder (Nini), Jacqueline B Arnold (La Chocolat), Holly James (Arabia), Jeigh Madjus (Baby Doll), Reed Luplau (Pierre) Notes: Beautiful HD capture of the fabulous Amber Ardolino as Satine and Dylan Paul as the Duke. Filmed from the rear left orchestra with a mix of wides, mediums, and many close-ups.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical - Broadway (Audio)

September 24, 2021 | Unknown’s master Format: mp3

Cast: Natalie Mendoza (Satine), Aaron Tveit (Christian), Danny Burstein (Harold Zidler), Bobby Daye (Toulouse-Lautrec), Ricky Rojas (Santiago), Tam Mutu (The Duke of Month) Robyn Hurder (Nini), Jaqueline B. Arnold (La Chocolat), Holly James (Arabia), Reed Luplau (Pierre), Jeigh Madjus (Baby Doll) Notes: Reopening night!

Moulin Rouge! The Musical - Broadway (Audio) December 1, 2021 | juniper47’s master

Cast: Aaron Tveit (Christian), Natalie Mendoza (Satine), Danny Burstein (Harold Zidler), Sahr Ngaujah (Toulouse-Lautrec), Ricky Rojas (Santiago), Tam Mutu (The Duke), Robyn Hurder (Nini), Tasia Jungbauer* (u/s La Chocolat), Holly James (Arabia), Jeigh Madjus (Baby Doll), Brandon Stonestreet* (u/s Pierre), Keely Beirne, Giovanni Bonaventura, Olutayo Bosede, Kyle Brown, Sam J. Cahn, Bobby Daye, Aaron C. Finley, Bahiyah Hibah, Ericka Hunter Yang, Kara Menendez, Kaitlin Mesh, Fred Odgaard, Khori Michelle Petinaud, Benjamin Rivera, Julius Anthony Rubio Notes: Tracked by ascreaminggoddess. Good clear audio, though there is a shift in the depth of stereo due to needing to move the audio recorder and mics partway through Act 1. (do not gift, trade only, not for sale)

Moulin Rouge! The Musical - Broadway

December 4, 2021 | TheatreCouple14’s master Format: mp4

Cast: Natalie Mendoza (Satine), Aaron Tveit (Christian), Danny Burstein (Harold Zidler), Bobby Daye (Toulouse-Lautrec), Ricky Rojas (Santiago), Tam Mutu (The Duke of Month) Robyn Hurder (Nini), Jaqueline B. Arnold (La Chocolat), Holly James (Arabia), Reed Luplau (Pierre), Jeigh Magus (Baby Doll) Notes: 4x3 Wide-shot phone boot show from front right orchestra. A few major heads obstruct about 40% of the view throughout. Interesting view to see some of the dancers on the right side of the stage that aren't usually captured in close-up boots. This show is such a spectacle! Videos can't even do it justice, but super fans might like it.

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Dreamcasting Broadway: THE GREAT GATSBY

“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

Dreamcasting Broadway: The Great Gatsby

Troy Iwata as Nick Carraway

Joshua Henry as Jay Gatsby

Denée Benton as Daisy Buchanan

Steven Pasquale as Tom Buchanan

Danielle Steers as Jordan Baker

Joe Tippett as George Wilson

Grace McLean as Myrtle Wilson

Danny Burstein as Meyer Wolfsheim/Wolf Eyes

Abby C. Smith as Ensemble

Ashley De La Rosa as Ensemble (Jordan u/s)

Chris Dwan as Mr. McKee/Ensemble (Nick u/s)

Dorcas Leung as Mrs. McKee/Ensemble (Daisy u/s)

Ericka Hunter as Ensemble

Eymard Cabling as Ensemble (Tom u/s, George u/s)

Hayley Podschun as Ensemble (Daisy u/s, Myrtle u/s)

Heath Saunders as Klipspringer/Ensemble

Kathryn Allison as Ensemble

Katrina Yaukey as Ensemble

Natalie Walker as Catherine/Ensemble (Myrtle u/s)

Nick Gaswirth as Dan Cody/Ensemble (George u/s, Meyer Wolfsheim/Owl Eyes u/s)

Ryan Alvarado as Henry C. Gatz/Ensemble (Tom u/s, Meyer Wolfsheim/Owl Eyes u/s)

Sydney James Harcourt as Ensemble (Gatsby u/s)

Wonza Johnson as Ensemble (Nick u/s)

Anthony Festa as Swing (Gatsby u/s)

Camden Gonzales as Swing

Jillian Mueller as Swing (Jordan u/s)

Olutayo Bosede as Swing

Veronica Otim as Swing

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First look walk by of the new Moulin Rouge marquee!

🎥: Cast Member Olutayo Bosede’s IG story

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I Listened to the Moulin Rouge! OBCR So You Don’t Have To

Note: I’m rebranding my reviews to be geared strictly toward people who can’t afford to go to New York and see Broadway musicals. I’ll still be doing reviews, but I’m trying to reach people who maybe OBCRs are their only source of musical theatre. Enjoy!

Moulin Rouge! is a 2019 musical based around the 2001 jukebox musical movie. The number one thing I always suggest to people trying to understand a musical just from the cast recording is to read the plot summary on wikipedia first. However, as this review is being written, there is no plot summary on the wikipedia, and because it’s a jukebox musical, it’s very hard to understand just from the cast recording. I kind of had to piece together the plot from what I read on the movie’s wikipedia since the songs have been switched around. Long story short: Moulin Rouge! is your average, everyday romance. Not really a huge plot there, but still entertaining nonetheless. 

Lots of comparisons can be made between it and other, older, musicals, but it’s most similar to Cabaret (yes, the musical they do in Love, Simon). The cast recording isn’t particularly bad, but it’s theatrics (costume design, set design, etc.) are much more impressive than the musical itself. The arrangements are impressive, to the point where you may even forget it’s a jukebox musical for five minutes. Typically, I’m not a fan of jukebox musicals (ex: Jersey Boys, Beautiful, Tina) but there are a few I like (ex: Ain’t Too Proud, Singin’ in the Rain) and Moulin Rouge! may make that list. 

If you were to tell me this entire musical had three cast members + ensemble, I’d believe you. Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo are in like 95% of the songs and Danny Burstein’s French accent kind of stands out. Other than that, it’s kind of hard to find many songs with the other cast members. It’s still a great recording, I just kind of wish there was more of the rest of the cast. 

Conclusion: It’s a great cast recording, but maybe just for a quick afternoon listen. There’s some musicals you’ll obsess over every single song, and then there’s some you’ll casually turn on when you’re bored. This is one of those. If anything, just listen to this musical without reading the track list first. It’s fun to hear random top 40 songs with zero preparedness whatsoever. 

Rating: 3.75 stars

Cast: Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein, Sahr Ngaujah, Tam Mutu, Ricky Rojas, Robyn Hurder, Jacqueline B. Arnold, Holly James, Jeigh Madjus, Olutayo Bosede, Kyle Brown, Sam J. Cahn, Max Clayton, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Bahiyah Hibah, Ericka Hunter, Morgan Marcell, Brandt Martinez, Jodi McFadden, Reed Luplau, Kevyn Morrow, Fred Odgaard, Dylan Paul, Khori Michelle Petinaud and Benjamin Rivera

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Moulin Rouge set

“Moulin Rouge” was thrilling from the moment I entered the theater… until about ten minutes after it began. That’s because the brightest star in this stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical is designer Derek McLane’s set. Before we even take our seats, it envelopes us in love, or at least in lots of red – a huge red neon “Moulin Rouge” sign above red lights in the shape of a half a dozen hearts nestled lovingly within each other, a full-sized, red windmill full of lights perched on the box seats above us to our left, a life-sized elephant (which, for variety, is purple) in the box seats to our right…

Please don’t misunderstand. There are other things to like besides the design in “Moulin Rouge,” but just nothing else that’s quite as thrilling.  This is a jukebox musical for the age of Spotify. It crams in some 75 cheekily anachronistic pop songs into what feels like perfunctory melodrama about a love triangle taking place in the famed Parisian nightclub Moulin Rouge in 1899.

The playlist is certainly fun, familiar and hummable; the songs from the movie  (from Broadway standards like “The Sound of Music” and “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” to David Bowie’s “Nature Boy,” and Elton John’s “Your Song”) are supplemented with hits by singers who have become stars in the 17 years since the movie was made: Lady Gaga, Florence and the Machine, Sia, Beyoncé, Adele, Katy Perry. The cast features some of the most talented and appealing actors that Broadway has to offer. The always reliable Danny Burstein is impresario Harold Zidler, good-hearted if a little sleazy, who is trying to keep the club from shutting down. Aaron Tveit is Christian, an innocent composer from Ohio, who moves to the Parisian artistic district of Montmartre in pursuit of the bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom and love. He gets enlisted  to write a musical for Moulin Rouge that will help save it…and meets Satine.   Karen Olivio is Satine, who becomes Christian’s object of desire, a performer at the Moulin Rouge and the star of the show within the show. Tam Mutu as the villainous Duke of Monroth, the show’s producer, who gets in the way of the love between Christian and Satine by demanding Satine for himself.

Each of these performers gets at least one number that shows them at their powerhouse best, as do Robyn Hurder and Ricky Rojas in a vigorous dance number to Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.” Even when the performers are delivering the many throwaway medleys, they do so playfully enough as to make us feel let in on the fun.

Yet, little of “Moulin Rouge” is done better than the movie, which is half an hour shorter and twice as sweet.  There isn’t the same chemistry between Olivo and Tveit as between Nicole Kidman and Ewan Macgregor. The comic scenes – such as when Satine thinks that Christian is the Duke – aren’t as funny, and the dramatic scenes are at best impressive rather than moving.

Nobody would accuse the movie “Moulin Rouge” of being subtle, yet the stage musical feels much more often like a sensory assault – and not just because of the standard confetti cannons. The movie begins with John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec singing the haunting Nature Boy (“There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy”) while the camerazooms from the stage through the streets and steeples of Montmartre to focus on Ewan McGregor crying at his typewriter, while he begins typing the story, telling it in voiceover. The stage musical begins with a quartet of scantily clad buxom beauties at the lip of the stage vamping “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?”–  Lady Marmalade, made a hit in 1974 by the girl group Labelle and covered constantly since then. Both songs are in both movie and musical, but the movie is more adept at hooking us into the narrative than John Logan’s book for the musical.

Even if I’d never seen the movie, though, I would surely be disappointed by the stage version. No, it doesn’t mark the end of civilization as we know it, or even the end of the Broadway musical. But it does feel like a throwback to an era when musicals meant little more than the efficient and intellectually-deficient delivery of a collection of melodies.

Given these disappointments, Derek McLane’s set is arguably to “Moulin Rouge” what the 20 foot puppet is to “King Kong” – the one undiluted delight, and the main reason to make the trip to the theater, rather than stay home with memories of the superior, iconic movie version. (It may not be just a coincidence that producer Carmen Pavlovic, the head of Global Creatures, is the lead producer of both “Moulin Rouge” and “King Kong,” her first two forays onto Broadway.) The atmosphere the set creates is most inviting when you first enter the Al Hirschfeld Theater, but the pleasures introduced periodically throughout the show by the design team – not just the set but Catherine Zuber’s costumes and Justin Townsend’s lighting — kept my attention even when I started reacting to the next batch of pop songs with “Yeah, ok, I get it.”

Click on any photograph by Matthew Murphy below to see it enlarged.

Karen Olivo as Satine and Aaron Tveit as Christian

Karen Olivo as Satine and Tam Mutu as The Duke of Monroth

Jacqueline B. Arnold as La Chocolat, Robyn Hurder as Nini, Holly James as Arabia and Jeigh Madjus as Baby Doll

Danny Burstein as the impresario Harold Zidler

Tam Mutu as The Duke of Monroth

Sahr Ngaujah as Toulouse-Lautrec, new friend of Aaron Tveit as composer Christian who also befriends Ricky Rojas as Santiago

Ricky Rojas as Santiago and Robyn Hurder as Nini

Aaron Tveit as Christian and Karen Olivo as Satine

Moulin Rouge set

  Moulin Rouge Al Hirschfeld Theater Book by John Logan; Music supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements by Justin Levine; Choreography by Sonya Tayeh; Directed by Alex Timbers Set design by Derek McLane, costume design by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Justin Townsend, sound by Peter Hylenski, wig and hair design by David Brian Brown , makeup by Sarah Cimino Cast: Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein, Sahr Ngaujah, Tam Mutu, Ricky Rojas, Robyn Hurder, Jacqueline B. Arnold, Holly James, Jeigh Madjus, Olutayo Bosede, Kyle Brown, Sam J. Cahn, Max Clayton, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Bahiyah Hibah, Ericka Hunter, Morgan Marcell, Brandt Martinez, Jodi McFadden, Reed Luplau, Kevyn Morrow, Fred Odgaard, Dylan Paul, Khori Michelle Petinaud and Benjamin Rivera Running time: Two hours and 40 minutes, including one intermission. Tickets: $99 to $399

Moulin Rouge Review: A jukebox musical for the age of Spotify “Moulin Rouge” was thrilling from the moment I entered the theater… until about ten minutes after it began.

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Olutayo Bosede’s Instagram story, 5/18/19

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Dreamcasting Broadway: CHICAGO

“The name on everybody’s lips is gonna be...Roxie!”

Dreamcasting Broadway: Chicago

MJ Rodriguez as Roxie Hart

Lady Gaga as Velma Kelly

Corbin Bleu as Billy Flynn

Brian d’Arcy James as Amos Hart

Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Matron “Mama” Morton

Lucas Steele as Mary Sunshine

Jan Sport as alt. Mary Sunshine

Jacqueline B. Arnold as Liz “Pop”/Ensemble

Yesenia Ayala as Annie “Six”/Ensemble

Betsy Struxness as June “Squish”/Ensemble (Velma u/s, Mama Morton u/s)

Ericka Hunter as Hunyak “Uh-uh”/Ensemble

Ashley Blanchet as Mona “Lipschitz”/Ensemble (Velma u/s)

Casey Garvin as Aaron/“Me & My Baby” Specialty/“Tap Dance” Specialty/“Nowadays” Whistle/Ensemble

DeShawn Bowens as Harry/The Jury/“Me & My Baby” Specialty/Ensemble

Devon McCleskey as “Tap Dance” Specialty/Ensemble

Joel Perez as Fred Casely/Ensemble (Billy u/s)

Lauren Zakrin as Go-To-Hell Kitty/Ensemble (Roxie u/s)

Michael Graceffa as Doctor/The Judge/“Tap Dance” Specialty/Ensemble

Olutayo Bosede as Bailiff/Court Clerk/“Tap Dance” Specialty/Ensemble

Preston Truman Boyd as Martin Harrison/Ensemble (Amos u/s)

Rommel Pierre O’Choa as Sergeant Fogarty/Ensemble (Billy u/s, Amos u/s)

Adam Perry as Swing

Justin Prescott as Swing

Kaleigh Cronin as Swing

Morgan Bryant as Swing (Roxie u/s)

Sumayya Ali as Swing (Mama Morton u/s)

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