Moulin Rouge! Musical to End Broadway Run This Summer
Nytimes reports that “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” will end its Broadway run on July 26, with its final performance at the Al Hirschfeld Theater nearly seven years after it opened on July 25, 2019. By closing it will have played 2,289 performances, including previews.
The show won 10 Tony Awards at a pandemic-delayed ceremony in 2021, including best new musical, and recouped its $28 million capitalization in 2022. As of Feb. 1 the Broadway production had been seen by 2.6 million people and had sold $348 million in tickets; its run was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic when it closed on March 12, 2020, and it resumed performances on Sept.
24, 2021. Broadway is one part of the musical’s life: there are productions in London’s West End, Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea; touring productions are traveling in North America and internationally; and non-replica productions using the Broadway book and songs are running in Scandinavia and Italy.