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(He also directed theRockyandBeetlejuiceadaptations.)
He feels like a younger cousin of mine in terms of theatrical language and storytelling.
We might have had a couple of wines.
Would you want to talk?
The musical adds new songs and mash-ups.
So the only way I got the music was to go to the artist.
Maybe youll make it three times.
Do you think ofMoulin Rouge!as camp?BL: Camps quite a serious subject.
AT: I dont really think of things in terms of camp or not camp.
I think were looking for truthfulness and authenticity.
Were discussing a collision between things thats more spectacle oriented and more presentational and performative.
In a theater, we have the ability to cast the audience.
The film starred Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
If you went chasing that in the theatrical casting, you would fall on your face.
She feels like an opera singer sometimes in the style of performance, as opposed to a musical heroine.
BL: It speaks well forMoulin Rouge!that in the first two iterations theyre so fundamentally different.
In the time to come, well see other interpretations of those characters, particularly Satine.
It was a moment where Baz was like, Circle this, look at what works here.
Some of it was there, and a lot of it, to be honest, wasnt quite.
Pop music often triggers different memories on top of what youre watching.BL: Sias a great friend of mine.
Shed played me this song called Chandelier, and shed gone through some personal things.
She said, Im probably gonna give it to Rihanna or someone.
I said, Perform it.
Moulin Rouge!begins previews at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on June 28.
