Review: ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ isn’t Baz Luhrmann but that’s OK

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So, too, is the Broadway musical, in its own way. The touring production, now running at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts through March 12, swings for the pop medley fences and basks in the ideals of freedom, beauty, truth and love. But it wisely strips things down just enough, leaning into the story and old-fashioned stagecraft without sacrificing the source movie’s.

The costumes and scenic design are evocative and eclectic, sliding deftly from the baroque theater world to the grimy streets of Montmartre to the elegance of Champs-Élysées . Justin Townsend’s lighting design is also a major player, in ways big and small. “Roxanne” becomes an infernal red plea. A lonely shaft of light turns Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” into a sparse, desperate ballad.

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