And above all things, Love. Love is like oxygen. I originally had tickets for the first weekend of July, but due to a mishap, our tickets were shifted to the first weekend of August, so there we were, senses heightened by our delayed gratification.
I must admit that I needed this to be good. Luckily for us, that divine decadent extravaganza has found its way, on to the stage most magnificently, mainly because of the adaptation book by John Logan Tony winner for Red.
He has found a way to take the perfect and precious, and make it better, deeper, darker, and surprising. Moulin Rouge! And indulgent it is, within this new musical, directed dynamically and deliciously by Alex Timbers John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City , the team has done the impossible.
It tells us almost everything we need to know about this creation. This is not going to be a carbon copy of the masterful film, but a reimagining, and with far too many new musical tidbits to relate. The additions are seamless and perfectly mixed, reorganizing the movie into a meal that is far superior to any blueprint special that someone could have merely copied from the film. The brilliance is in the way they used the movie as a guiding hand, rather than a precious diamond that had to be recreated and cut exactly.
We see that within almost every iconic moment; we wait with anticipation for the thing we know, only to be surprised by the twist and the turning of the plate. We are never let down, as no favorite morsel or taste has been taken away, but it is served up in a uniquely aggressive and sumptuous manner with a few different spices and flavors added to enhance. Olivo is impressively strong in the role, only faltering within the breathless moments that need some reshaping and dynamic fear implanted.
