Read the Reviews for Moulin Rouge! The Musical in London

The West End premiere of Moulin Rouge! The Musical opened January 20 and the reviews are in. Performances began November 12, 2021, at London’s Piccadilly Theatre.

Newcomer Jamie Bogyo stars as Christian alongside Liisi LaFontaine as Satine with Olivier nominees Clive Carter as Harold Zidler and Jason Pennycooke as Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as Simon Bailey as The Duke, Elia Lo Tauro as Santiago, and Sophie Carmen Jones as Nini.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical is directed by Alex Timbers with a book by John Logan, choreography by Sonya Tayeh, and music supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements by Justin Levine. The score is primarily comprised of myriad pop hits heard in the 2001 Baz Luhrmann spectacle, plus new chart-toppers released since then.

Read the reviews below.

Evening Standard (Nick Curtis)

The Guardian (Kate Wyver)

Londonist (Franco Milazzo)

LondonTheatre.co.uk (Suzy Evans)

LondonTheatre1 (Chris Omaweng)

The Stage (Tim Bano)

The Telegraph (Dominic Cavendish)

TheatreWeekly (Greg Stewart)

TimeOut London (Andrzej Lukowski)

The Times U.K. (Clive Davis)

Playbill will continue to update this page as reviews come in.

The company also features Zoe Birkett as Arabia, Jonathan Bishop as Baby Doll, and Timmika Ramsay as La Chocolat, plus Femi Akinfolarin, Robson Broad, Ian Carlyle, Jonathan Cordin, Anthony Cragg, Katie Ella Dunsden, Adam Gillian, Luke Jackson, Alicia Mencía, Ciro Lourencio Meulens, Georgia Morgan, Melissa Nettleford, Ian Oswald, Craig Ryder, Tinovimbanashe Sibanda, Katie Singh, Ope Sowande, Tanisha Spring, Toyan Thomas-Browne, Amy Thornton, Misty May Tindall, Jon Tsouras, Tommy Wade-Smith, and Lily Wang.