Previews began Friday with sold-out shows for MoulinRougeBway. Stars KarenOlivo, AaronTveit and director AlexTimbers talk reimagining the beloved BazLuhrmann movie for the stage
have been clamoring for the film about star-crossed lovers at the turn of the century in the eponymous Parisian nightclub since the movie premiered in 2001. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, winning two for its design elements, and now the musical is finally making its theatrical debut on Broadway.
Olivo calls Satine her "dream role" — she had the movie poster on her dining room wall. The film's original song,"They were really pushing the envelope when movie musicals or musical performance weren't as mainstream as they are now," Tveit says. "I just remember being very struck by the fact that they were doing it in such a big-budget way."
While Timbers took cues from Luhrmann, Tveit and Olivo took notes from their onscreen counterparts, Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. There are elements that are inherently different for the stage, but there were aspects of the movie's performances they wanted to preserve. "As an actor, it's easy to play really dark and brooding, but when you have to be open and warm, that can be a little more difficult. He does it masterfully in the film," Tveit says of McGregor.
"I'm very proud to be a woman that is no longer an ingenue's age and is wiser and experienced, having to fall in love like an ingenue would and doing it through someone who is just full of hope," says Olivo. The backstory between Satine and club owner Harold Zidler, played by six-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein, has also been further developed, and Olivo says that while in the movie Satine's motivation is to become a "real actress," her intentions onstage are more altruistic.
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