The longly anticipated musical adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's iconic Moulin Rouge opened this week at the newly re-opened Emerson Colonial Theatre here in Boston! Take your first look at Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit as Santine and Christian, and Danny Burnstein as Harold Zidler.

What is Moulin Rouge! The Musical about

The year is 1900 and Christian, a young poet and talented writer has come to Paris to pursue a career and become a member of the Bohemian movement there. Christian ends up falling hopelessly in love with Satine, the star of the infamous Moulin Rouge, however, Satine has already been promised to the unscrupulous Duke. A love triangle ensues, as Christian and Satine try to stay together against all odds they are led down a dark and dangerous path but Satine is holding a terrible secret of her own...