Arianna Rosario, who plays Satine's alternate, performs a song during the Lied's announcement of the Moulin Rouge musical on Monday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
KATY COWELL, Journal Star
The North American tour of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” will play the Lied Center for Performing Arts from Feb. 4-16.
Arianna Rosario was on the Orpheum Theatre stage Sunday night, playing Satine in the national touring company production of “Moulin Rouge: The Musical.”
Monday morning, Rosario was in Lincoln singing the musical’s version of Katy Perry’s “Firework” to announce that “Moulin Rouge: the Musical” will play the Lied Center for Performing Arts for two weeks in February.
Monday’s announcement came a month after the Lied Center released its 2024-2025 schedule, having been delayed until the Tony Award-winning musical completed its Omaha run Sunday.
“When there are two Broadway markets next to each other, once a show is closed in one market, you can go on sale with it in the second market,” said Lied deputy director Matthew Boring. “That’s common practice. You see the same thing with arena shows all the time."
“Moulin Rouge,” the winner of 10 Tony Awards, including best musical, is based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann romantic musical film that starred Ewan McGregor as a poet who falls in love with Nicole Kidman as the star of the Moulin Rouge cabaret.
But, Rosario said, the musical is about more than just the romance.
“At its core, ‘Moulin Rouge’ is a story about artists trying to produce art, artists like (painter Henri de) Toulouse-Lautrec, who’s in the show,” Rosario said. “The artists are showing their talent, sharing their talents, which is what we’re trying to do as actors.”
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Set in 1900, the musical celebrates more than 160 years of music from Offenbach to Lady Gaga. The musical features many of the iconic songs from the movie and also includes hits, like “Firework,” released in the past two decades.
“There are so many songs like that in the show,” said Rosario, who was set to fly from Lincoln to Appleton, Wisconsin, Monday afternoon to catch up with the tour. “And they’ve taken a lot of songs from the movie, updated them and added to them, even like a guitar riff.”
“Moulin Rouge: The Musical,” which will have 16 performances from Feb. 4-16, will be the third musical to run for two weeks at the Lied, following “The Phantom of the Opera” in 2018 and “Hamilton” last year.
Both “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Hamilton” drew more than 30,000 people to the Lied, many of them from outside Lincoln.
Tickets are now available as part of "Create Your Own Season" packages, where subscribers pick any five events from the season and save 20% on the order.
At 11 a.m. Tuesday, “Moulin Rouge” tickets will be available as part of new four-show Broadway packages made possible because the Lied has four musicals that will run for a week or longer in the 2024-25 season. The package, which starts at $177, also will include “Back to the Future: the Musical,” “Beetlejuice” and “Disney’s The Little Mermaid.” Those packages allow patrons to lock in the same seats for all four shows on Tuesday, Wednesday or Sunday evenings.
Single-show tickets will go on sale later this summer.
Tickets can be purchased at , by phone at 402-472-4747 and at the Lied box office.
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Arianna Rosario, who plays Satine's alternate, performs a song during the Lied's announcement of the Moulin Rouge musical on Monday at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.