{"id":114650,"date":"2026-01-28T03:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114650\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:04:38","slug":"bob-the-drag-queen-steps-purse-first-into-broadways-moulin-rouge-tonight-broadway-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/114650\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob The Drag Queen Steps Purse First Into Broadway\u2019s Moulin Rouge! Tonight | Broadway Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob The Drag Queen<br \/>(Photo: Avery Brunkus)<\/p>\n<p>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race winner and internationally lauded performer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/stars\/bob-the-drag-queen\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob The Drag Queen<\/a> (a.k.a. Caldwell Tidicue) joins the Broadway cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/shows\/moulin-rouge-musical\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moulin Rouge!<\/a>\u00a0on January 27 as ringmaster Harold Zidler. This marks the drag superstar\u2019s Broadway debut.\u00a0Audiences can catch him in the role at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre\u00a0through March 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bob The Drag Queen competed on the third season of Peacock&#8217;s The Traitors and toured the world with Madonna. Through his work co-hosting HBO\u2019s first unscripted show, We\u2019re Here, Bob has been awarded a Peabody Award, GLAAD Media Award and a Television Academy Honors recognition. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert.<\/p>\n<p>Bob joins current Broadway cast members\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/stars\/meg-donnelly\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meg Donnelly<\/a>\u00a0as Satine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/stars\/christian-douglas\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Douglas<\/a> as Christian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/stars\/david-harris\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Harris<\/a> as the Duke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/stars\/andre-ward\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9 Ward<\/a> as Toulouse-Lautrec,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/stars\/samantha-dodemaide\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Dodemaide<\/a> as Nini and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/stars\/ricky-rojas\/profile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Rojas<\/a> as Santiago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/buzz\/206555\/ricky-rojas-to-return-to-broadways-moulin-rouge-the-musical-as-santiago\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rojas returns<\/a>\u00a0to the role\u2014which he originated in 2019\u2014on January 27.<\/p>\n<p>Moulin Rouge! is directed by Alex Timbers with a book by John Logan, choreography by Sonya Tayeh and music supervision by Justin Levine. The musical is based on Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s 2001 film of the same name. It won 10 Tony Awards in 2021, including Best Musical.<\/p>\n<p>Get tickets to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadway.com\/shows\/moulin-rouge-musical\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moulin Rouge<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob The Drag Queen(Photo: Avery Brunkus) RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race winner and internationally lauded performer Bob The Drag Queen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-114650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}