How wonderful life is now that this Broadway show is in town. (Photo: Matthew Murphy)
Can you believe they wrote a musical about a scandalous Parisian dance hall? Well, yes, you probably can-can. The national tour of “Moulin Rouge!” kicks up its heels Tuesday through Sept. 1 at the Des Moines Civic Center, with all the gitchie-gitchie, ya-ya, razzle-dazzle that won 10 Tony Awards in 2020, including the prize for Best Musical. Like Baz Luhrmann’s gleefully over-the-top movie from 2001, the stage show tells the tale of a young bohemian composer who falls for a cabaret singer at the turn of the 20th century and learns a thing or two about l’amour.
