Moulin Rouge! to close on Broadway

The long-running Broadway production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical will play its final performance at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on July 26, 2026, just past the seven year mark of its Broadway opening.

At the time of the announced closing, it will have played 2,265 regular performances and 24 previews.

Based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film about the star-crossed love between a starving writer and the sparkling diamond of Montmartre, Moulin Rouge! is set around the famed Paris nightclub during the belle epoque. The Broadway score features 20th century songs that were included in the film (like Elton John’s “Your Song”) but also more contemporary numbers like Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.”

The show won 10 Tonys in 2021, including Best Musical, Best Direction (for Alex Timbers), Best Performance for a Featured Actor (Danny Burstein as Harold Zidler, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Aaron Tveit), and Best Orchestrations of Justin Levine, who created the show’s caffeinated arrangements of the pop numbers.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical officially recouped its Broadway investment late in 2022, the only musical from that pandemic season to do so.

Carmen Pavlovic of Global Creatures is the lead producer.

The show continues to much success in the West End.