How 'Moulin Rouge!' Brought a Pop Revolution to Broadway

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.AaronTveit, KarenOlivo & Sahr Ngaujah on how pop music perfectly blends into MoulinRougeBway

Plenty of new musicals purport to be bringing something utterly new to Broadway -- but very few can truly back up that claim. And then there's, based on the lushly dramatic 2001 Baz Luhrmann film, and now playing to sold-out audiences at the Al Hirschfeld Theater.

As the show veers between poignant romance, melodramatic tragedy and plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor, the actors have to negotiate sudden changes in tone, along with palpable audience reactions. "Tone is something we have to be hyper-aware of, or else things start to fall apart," says Olivo. "The recognition of a song, and how it's using the lyrics to forward the plot line, you start to see people understanding the movie and the show and how it all goes together.

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