A mash-up of more than 70 contemporary songs, “Moulin Rouge” tells the story of a young poet who has moved to Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
That’s what Christian Douglas did and now he’s the star of the national touring production of “Moulin Rouge.”
Douglas auditioned, got the gig and, yes, went through two-and-a-half months of boot camp. “Looking back now, it felt like a crazy dream,” he says. “It allowed me to lay some foundation financially and I got to perform with the Army Band. I grew as a singer. When I decided to leave and moved to New York, I felt I was a little more mature and equipped to step into that musical theater world.”
Christian as Christian? “I always had it in the back of my mind that it’d be so cool to play Christian…so the universe really seemed to answer: Christian the songwriter playing Christian the songwriter.” To be able to sing eight shows a week, Douglas limits his activity, works out and realizes “a lot of my choices revolve around the show: ‘Will I be able to do my show tonight if I do this?’”“I haven’t decided yet what I want to do but I’m in the process of writing a show with two playwrights based in New York. That’s on the back burner for me. We’ve done a couple of Zoom readings and, hopefully, in the fall we’ll do a full-fledged workshop.
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