
(AGENPARL) – Tue 10 June 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tony Award^®-Winning Best Musical
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Welcomes to the Broadway Company
Ashley Loren & Christian Douglas
As Satine & Christian
Beginning Tuesday, July 22, 2025
(New York, NY – June 10, 2025) Producers of the Tony Award^®-winning Best Musical Moulin Rouge! The Musical announced today Ashley Loren and Christian Douglas will be Broadway’s next Satine and Christian, respectively, beginning Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45^th St, NYC). They join the company alongside Wayne Brady as Harold Zidler and Taye Diggs as The Duke of Monroth.
Solea Pfeiffer as Satine, Jordan Fisher as Christian, Austin Durant as Harold Zidler and Andy Karl as The Duke of Monroth play their final performance on Sunday, July 20^th.
Having performed to over 10 million audience members worldwide, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is currently playing in New York, across North America on a national tour, in London’s West End, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands and the World Tour recently launched in Edinburgh, Scotland.
ABOUT MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the winner of ten 2021 Tony Awards^® including Best Musical, 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.
“Spectacular! Euphoric! In Moulin Rouge! The Musical, life is beautiful,” raves The New York Times. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a fabulous new musical. The high begins the instant you walk into the theatre,” said the New York Post. Entertainment Weekly concludes that “it’s easy to believe that Moulin Rouge! The Musical could run for 50 years.”
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is directed by Tony Award^® winner Alex Timbers and with a book by Tony Award^® winner John Logan, choreography by Tony Award^® winner Sonya Tayeh and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Tony Award^® winner Justin Levine.
The design team for Moulin Rouge! The Musical includes Tony Award^® winner Derek McLane (sets), Tony Award^® winner Catherine Zuber (costumes), Tony Award^® winner Justin Townsend (lighting), Tony Award^® winner Peter Hylenski (sound), Drama Desk Award winner David Brian Brown (wig and hair design), Sarah Cimino (Make-up design) and Tony Award^® winner Matt Stine (Music Producer). Casting is by Jim Carnahan and Stephen Kopel.
Enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular spectacular…Welcome to Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
Baz Luhrmann’s iconic film comes to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a theatrical celebration of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and – above all – Love. Moulin Rouge! The Musical is more than a musical; it is a state of mind.
As in the film, Moulin Rouge! The Musical celebrates over 160 years of music – from Offenbach to Lady Gaga. The stage musical features many of the iconic songs from the movie and also includes recent hits released since the movie premiered more than 20 years ago.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is produced by Carmen Pavlovic and Gerry Ryan OAM for Global Creatures and Bill Damaschke. General management is by Foresight Theatrical.
Co-producers of the Broadway production include Aaron Lustbader, Hunter Arnold, Darren Bagert, Erica Lynn Schwartz / Matt Picheny / Stephanie Rosenberg, Adam Blanshay Productions / Nicolas & Charles Talar, Iris Smith, Aleri Entertainment, CJ ENM, Sophie Qi/Harmonia Holdings, AF Creative Media / International Theatre Fund, Baz & Co. / Len Blavatnik, Endeavor Content, Tom & Pam Faludy, Gilad-Rogowsky / InStone Productions, John Gore Organization, Mehr-BB Entertainment GmbH, Spencer Ross, Nederlander Presentations / IPN, Eric Falkenstein / Suzanne Grant, Jennifer Fischer, Peter May / Sandy Robertson, Triptyk Studios, Carl Daikeler / Sandi Moran, Desantis-Baugh Productions, Red Mountain Theatre Company / 42ND.CLUB, Candy Spelling / Tulchin Bartner, Roy Furman and Jujamcyn Theatres.
Released by 20^th Century Studios, Baz Luhrmann’s MOULIN ROUGE! premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. At the 74th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, and won two.
The Grammy-nominated Moulin Rouge! The Musical Original Broadway Cast Recording, produced by Baz Luhrmann, Justin Levine, Matt Stine & Alex Timbers, is now available by Baz Luhrmann’s label, House of Iona, and RCA Records. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Cast Album chart.
The book Moulin Rouge! The Musical: The Story of the Broadway Spectacular, a glittering backstage pass to Moulin Rouge! The Musical and its journey to Broadway, is now available from Rizzoli.
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