{"id":323746,"date":"2026-08-18T04:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T04:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:32:07","slug":"aaron-tveit-returns-to-moulin-rouge-the-musical-on-broadway-august-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323746\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Tveit Returns to Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway August 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the August 30 closing of the long-running, Tony-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical<\/a>, original star Aaron Tveit<\/a> is reprising\u00a0his Tony-winning performance as Christian\u00a0for 15
\nperformances beginning August 18 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.<\/p>\n

Tveit, who won the 2021 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical creating the role of Christian and\u00a0most recently played Freddie Trumper in the revival of\u00a0Chess<\/a>,\u00a0will continue through August 29. Christian Douglas<\/a> will return to play the final performance August 30.<\/p>\n

Tveit joins a cast that includes fellow original cast member Ricky
\nRojas as Santiago, along with Kelsie Watts<\/a> as Satine, AK Naderer<\/a> as
\nNini, Eric Anderson<\/a> as Harold Zidler, Andr\u00e9 Ward<\/a> as Toulouse-Lautrec,
\nDavid Harris as The Duke of Monroth, and Arianna Rosario<\/a> as the Satine
\nAlternate.<\/p>\n

The production is directed by Alex Timbers<\/a> with a book by John Logan<\/a>
\n(based on the Baz Luhrmann-directed movie of the same name) and
\nchoreography by Sonya Tayeh<\/a>. The score features covers of “Firework” by
\nKaty Perry, “Your Song” by Elton John<\/a>, and “Chandelier” by Sia, among
\nmany other modern pop songs. The story takes place at Paris’ famed
\nMoulin Rouge and follows the tragic love story between performer Satine
\nand composer Christian.<\/p>\n

The production’s music team includes musical supervisor Justin
\nLevine, music producer Matt Stine<\/a>, and music director Andrew Graham<\/a>.
\nOrchestrations are by Levine, Stine, Katie Kresek<\/a>, and Charlie Rosen<\/a>,
\nwith dance arrangements by Levine and Stine.<\/p>\n

Also on the creative team are scenic designer Derek McLane<\/a>, costume
\ndesigner Catherine Zuber<\/a>, lighting designer Justin Townsend<\/a>, sound
\ndesigner Peter Hylenski<\/a>, hair designer David Brian Brown<\/a>, and makeup
\ndesigner Sarah Cimino<\/a>, with creative services by Luhrmann and Catherine
\nMartin. Casting is by Jim Carnahan<\/a> and Stephen Kopel<\/a>. Star casting is by
\n Whitley Theatrical<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ: <\/a>Ricky Rojas Has a ‘Pinch-Me Moment’ Every Night in Broadway’s <\/a>Moulin Rouge! The Musical<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to Best Musical, the production won Tonys for Best
\nPerformance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tveit),
\nBest Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical (Danny
\nBurstein), Best Choreography (Tayeh), Best Direction of a Musical
\n(Timbers), Best Orchestrations (Levine, Kresek, Rosen, and Stine), Best
\nScenic Design of a Musical (McLane), Best Costume Design of a Musical
\n(Zuber), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Townsend), and Best Sound
\nDesign of a Musical (Hylenski).<\/p>\n

Having performed to over 12 million audience members across 15 productions worldwide, Moulin Rouge! is
\n also currently playing North America on a national tour, in London\u2019s
\nWest End, Germany, Korea, The Netherlands, a world tour, and in
\nnon-replica productions in Scandinavia and Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the August 30 closing of the long-running, Tony-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical, original star Aaron Tveit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-323746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323746","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=323746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}