A Houston hottie is buying and selling in mic checks for Moulin Rouge in newly launched first-look images.
Producers of Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Megan Thee Stallion have launched first-look images of the three-time Grammy-winning rapper and actress as Harold Zidler, providing a glimpse of her transformation forward of her Broadway debut later this month.
The pictures, captured forward of opening evening, present Megan moving into the larger-than-life function of the famed Parisian nightclub impresario, marking a historic second for the long-running manufacturing.
As beforehand reported, Megan will start performances March 24 on the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, showing in a restricted eight-week engagement via Could 17 because the present enters the ultimate months of its Broadway run, which is about to conclude July 26.
With the casting, Megan turns into the primary female-identifying performer to painting Zidler in any manufacturing of Moulin Rouge! The Musical worldwide. The function, initially delivered to life on display screen by Jim Broadbent in Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie, has beforehand been performed onstage by Danny Burstein, Tituss Burgess, Boy George, and Wayne Brady.
“Stepping onto the Broadway stage and becoming a member of the Moulin Rouge! The Musical crew is an absolute honor,” Megan mentioned in an announcement. “I’ve at all times believed in pushing myself creatively and theater is unquestionably a brand new alternative that I’m excited to embrace. Broadway calls for a distinct stage of self-discipline, preparation and storytelling, however I’m up for the problem and might’t await the Hotties to see a brand new aspect of me.”
Producer Carmen Pavlovic described the casting as a key a part of the manufacturing’s farewell celebration.
“Welcoming Megan Thee Stallion into the Moulin Rouge! The Musical group is an exciting second for us,” Pavlovic mentioned. “Megan is a real international celebrity… We wish our present to exit with a spectacular bang, and Megan is the drive of nature to steer us there.”
Megan will take over the function from Bob the Drag Queen who concludes a restricted run on March 22.
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