How Alex Timbers is reimagining Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! for the stage and—with songs by Lady Gaga, Sia, and Outkast, among others—a new generation.
for the stage, as another generation of New York audiences will discover when his electrifying, eye-popping, and blissfully over-the-top adaptation of Luhrmann’s masterpiece opens on Broadway, after a smash run in Boston, this month.
Luhrmann grew up in Herons Creek, a tiny, remote Australian town with a total of seven houses in it, where, he says, “if you didn’t have a good imagination and an ability to create worlds in your mind, you were lost.” Fortunately his family, which ran a gas station and a pig farm, also ran the local movie theater and had a black-and-white TV set , and Luhrmann devoured a steady diet of old movies, including musicals, with which he fell in love.
But Luhrmann also had what he calls a “preposterous conceit” that allowed his Orpheus—a Bohemian poet named Christian, played by Ewan McGregor—to metaphorically enchant the very rocks and stones to follow him because of his voice: “When our poet opens his mouth, ‘The hills are alive with the sound of music’ comes out of it,” he says. “Whether you likeor not, it’s a giant hit that’s got artistic cred—so it’s a funny, concise way of saying ‘The guy has magic.
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