Boy George Returning To Broadway After 20 Years For Limited ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Engagement
Culture Club singer Boy George will return to Broadway in February after a 20-year absence to play a limited engagement in the hit musical Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
Boy George, born George O’Dowd, will play the role of Harold Zidler at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre from Tuesday, February 6, 2024, through Sunday, May 12, 2024.
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The Zidler character is the owner of the Moulin Rouge! nightclub and serves as a de facto emcee in the musical. The role was originated on Broadway by Danny Burstein, and is currently played by Tituss Burgess through Sunday, December 17. Eric Anderson returns to the role December 19 through February 4.
Boy George was last on Broadway in the short-lived Taboo, the musical about the fashionable London nightclub Taboo of the 1980s. Boy George wrote the music and lyrics and portrayed nightlife icon Leigh Bowery.
As lead singer of the ’80s band Culture Club, Boy George sang on such hit singles as “Karma Chameleon” and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.”
The winner of ten 2021 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Moulin Rouge! opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in the summer of 2019 and reopened in September 2021 following the industry’s Covid pandemic shutdown. Directed by Alex Timbers and with a book by John Logan, the musical, like the 2001 Baz Luhrmann’s film, features a wide range of pop music hits (or snippets of them), including “Lady Marmalade,” “Every Breath You Take,” “Children of the Revolution,” “Single Ladies,” “Firework,” “Your Song,” “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Up Where We Belong” and many others.
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