There’s nothing subtle about ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’
‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’Through Sept. 24The Kennedy Center Opera House2700 F St., N.W.$45 – $199kennedy-center.org There’s nothing subtle about “Moulin Rouge!
The Musical.” The set, the score, the book, the Vegas meets fin de siècle costumes are all undeniably extra but that’s what makes it tick.
Now at the Kennedy Center, the jukebox musical is plying its over-the-top charms on D.C. At a recent matinee, having left the hot sun of the terrace for the cool confines of the Opera House, I felt transported.
Always cavernous and ornate, the theater was now aglow in bright pinkish red, the stage an explosion of concentric hearts, book-ended by a huge red windmill and an enormous blue elephant, and backed by a tapestry filled with fleurs de lis and yet more windmills.
