Rialto Chatter: Is MOULIN ROUGE Headed to The West End?

A new report from Baz Bamigboye of The Daily Mail is hinting at a potential West End transfer of the smash stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!

The show's director, Alex Timbers, is rumored to have made a trip to London this week to scout out the Piccadilly Theatre for the sizable pop musical.

According to the report, the show is aiming for a West End bow in early 2021.

So will Satine & co. be bringing their decadent love story across the pond? Stay tuned!

Directed by Timbers (Tony Award®-nominated for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Peter and the Starcatcher) Moulin Rouge! The Musical has a book by John Logan (Tony Award® for Red), choreography by Sonya Tayeh (Lucille Lortel Award and Obie Award for Kung Fu, and Emmy winner), and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Justin Levine (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson).

Moulin Rouge! The Musical is based on the 20th Century Fox Motion Picture by Baz Luhrmann.

The Broadway cast includes Karen Olivo (Tony Award® for West Side Story, In the Heights) as Satine, Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can, Next to Normal) as Christian, Danny Burstein (six-time Tony Award®-nominee, Fiddler On the Roof, Cabaret) as Harold Zidler, Sahr Ngaujah (Tony® and Olivier award-nominee for Fela) as Toulouse-Lautrec, Tam Mutu (Doctor Zhivago, Encores!'s Hey, Look Me Over! and The New Yorkers) as The Duke of Monroth, Ricky Rojas (Burn the Floor) as Santiago and Robyn Hurder (Nice Work If You Can Get It) as Nini.