00:00I'm Jane Bradley, Arts Correspondent at the Scotsman in Scotland on Sunday and
00:04I'm here today at Edinburgh Playhouse where we have got a glimpse behind the
00:07scenes at the fabulous Moulin Rouge. As you can see the stage set behind me is
00:12really quite spectacular. We've got to meet the cast, we have got to chat to the
00:17producer and we've also been in the incredible wardrobe village where we've
00:22been looking through the costumes, the can-can costumes, the absolutely
00:27incredible work that has gone into a show like this which is to run for the
00:32next eight weeks at the Playhouse before embarking on an 18-month tour which will
00:35take it all around the UK and into Europe. I'm here today with Carmen Pavlovich
00:40who is the producer of Moulin Rouge which is beginning an 18-month UK first leg of
00:46its tour in Edinburgh. Hi Carmen. Hi, how are you? Good, thank you. So you've had about
00:53seven or eight days of previews so far and it's going strong. Yes, ecstatic
00:58audiences and it's just a lovely welcome to kick off the tour and we're excited to
01:03open in Edinburgh. It's a really vibrant city and it's always been important to
01:08us that we are somewhere that has deep sort of cultural diversity and you know
01:13the kind of themes of the art and music of the show can kind of spill out beyond
01:17the theatre and into the city so Edinburgh felt like a really natural place for us to
01:21launch the tour. Fantastic and it's a eight-week tour I believe in Edinburgh
01:26which is obviously a very long time to have a show and ticket sales are going well.
01:31Yeah, yeah it's been really lovely for us because audiences have really embraced the
01:36idea and this is actually our ninth production that we're opening this week
01:40and it's you know the film is really beloved around the world
01:44and it's just wonderful to see that the audiences of Edinburgh
01:47you know feel so fondly about it and I'm sure the show's got its reputation now of actually
01:51welcoming our 10 millionth visitor this week to the show on a worldwide basis so
01:56yeah it's lovely to have that opportunity to bring it here. And what do you think it is about the story
02:00that appeals to people so much? I think it's a story of just deep romance and love and also hope
02:06you know obviously the story is a tragedy on the one hand but it does
02:09have a sort of great sense of hope and rebirth at the end and then I guess the film really just
02:17made its way into people's hearts and became so iconic around the world when it opened in cinemas
02:23we hadn't really seen anything like that before that kind of use of music and Baz's unique style and
02:30people always say to us oh it's so theatrical and Baz does really create very theatrical pieces
02:38but we wanted to make sure we created a show that was as surprising to people now as it was when
02:45they saw it in the cinemas in 2001. So people who know the film from the original will they
02:51have any surprises if they if they come and see it here is there some changes? Yeah so we want to
02:55obviously delight the fans of the movie and make sure we've delivered all those iconic moments and
03:00iconic songs but in the years that have passed since the film uh was in the screens on screen sorry
03:06we you know we do have the opportunity to update about 50 percent of the score is updated catalog so we
03:13have 75 songs in the show representing the work of amazingly 160 composers and it's a lot more music
03:21than the film had but that's the theatrical form lends itself to that um the plot is largely what
03:27people know from the film but again we've kind of really updated it for today and um just kind of
03:34shifted some of the characters a little um but it will be the things people know and love from the
03:38film and if you don't know the film it's just a totally different experience again in the theatre
03:43fantastic thank you very much thank you nice to chat i'm here in the absolutely fabulous wardrobe
03:48village in the edinburgh playhouse with costume supervisor sabrina quinoberto hi sabrina hello how
03:55are you good thank you so can you just talk us through a little bit about the costumes of moulin rouge
04:01i mean they are very very spectacular thank you yes they are indeed spectacular and they really like
04:06raise up to the to the occasion with this like wonderful set and like stunning um production um so
04:12what we have here is uh the kankan dresses so we have corsets and skirts every single uh person on
04:18stage is individual so they have their own color scheme they're all simple so when they come out is
04:22really a feast to the eye where everybody's like dancing and moving and inside the skirts are all very
04:27colorful there's lots of layers and all kind of in aid of this like huge moment choreography and so
04:33they can do everything they need um they're inspired of course from the from the film and from the
04:38original like kankan dancers when they were back in the days in paris and with a nod to couture and
04:43like more modern and contemporary like fashion so that's a mix of it all which then kind of makes
04:48them contemporary and always up to date i guess and always gorgeous uh and that's what we have there is
04:55is the diamond uh corset that sateen wears when she comes down um for the first time we meet her in the
05:01show uh which is um clearly very very blingy um so yeah this is a big moment when we meet her first
05:10she comes down on stage with their feathers and her diamonds and then everybody else join her and then
05:14there's a big reveal when she takes this off really quickly and she has another costume underneath so
05:20it's a big moment and the costumes are so intricate i mean how do you actually even start to
05:25compile compile a wardrobe of this scale i know it takes a long time and as everybody says it does
05:32take a village there's a lot of makers involved a lot of fabricators a lot of like there is about
05:362 000 fabrics in the show there's many there's a lot of braids trims crystals decoration and like
05:43looks from shoes and like everything is like thought to the last detail everything is made nothing is
05:49purchased and used as it is so it's all being fabricated for the show and quite intricate and made to
05:55measure of course like everything is made specifically to each each cast member and like
05:59there's quite a lot of elements that are supposed to have the nude effect therefore they have to be
06:03like all the fabric has to like skin match to the actor therefore when they wear them they look like
06:07they're not wearing anything but they are it the magical theater um yeah same with same with hats wigs
06:15like everything is custom made and like kind of goes with the outfits and every outfit is for an
06:20individual scene like only a couple of them gets repeated otherwise it's always like a new outfit that you
06:24see on stage so and how many costumes are there in total i have not counted you've not counted we
06:29could start now many many there are a lot uh but you know they're all like gorgeous and so individual
06:35like every scene is quite it's quite different so you do get a very different vibe so you have the
06:40bohemians you have the kanka and then you have like the scene in roxanne where everybody's more like
06:44black lace because they're supposed to be prostitutes and they kind of have this kind of like a bit more
06:48more i don't want to say dismay or like kind of you know a bit of a simpler look but he's not it's
06:53like gorgeous and his lace and they're again all individual and it's this really dark scene and then
06:57you have the bohemians which again like more costuming with like long skirts and you know in
07:03the street of paris and um yeah and then we have boulevard which is the aristocrats and is that kind of
07:07like my fair lady ascot scene which is like quite surreal and past any color so completely like
07:13opposite to everything else we've seen before so yeah you get a bit of everything thank you for
07:17letting us have the costumes are amazing thank you for coming i'm here with nate lance kroner
07:23and verity thompson who played christian and satin in the edmund playhouse production of moulin
07:29rouge hi hi so this is the first one of moulin rouge you've both done is that right it is indeed
07:36yeah so you've had about eight days of shows so far yeah previews so far yeah exciting time yeah
07:42it's going really well the audience have been loving it just excited to open yeah and when you got the
07:47parts when you auditioned for the parts is this something you'd always wanted to do was it a show
07:51that always interested you it was my favorite film growing up um and when i got the audition through i
07:57couldn't quite believe it um but i've known for like a year now so just a year of knowing and
08:04excitement has been fantastic yeah i can't believe i'm here oh amazing and how long do you
08:08rehearse for so i mean how long how long ago did you start the rehearsals for the we started is it
08:12nine weeks ago nine weeks ago yeah brilliant gosh that's quite quite a short time for such a complex
08:17show it feels like well i think they've been quite nice to us actually yeah sometimes there's a quick
08:23turnaround rehearsals yeah yeah they've got it like so finely tuned like the system of how to do it and
08:29how quickly they do it is just to a tee that's amazing and you've obviously got an eight week one
08:36here and then an 18 month one in total for this first leg of the tour um and you're at the beginning
08:41at the moment how does that feel exciting yeah it's very exciting i mean we've had such a warm welcome
08:47to it already from um from the lovely people of edinburgh so you know it's uh very nicely teed us into the
08:54door i think and have you much time to get out and about in edinburgh see around a bit not yet
08:59we can't wait to have our days through and we can go out and venture out i'm just saying scottish
09:04people are so lovely so great well thank you so much good luck with the rest of the world thank you
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