Unfortunately nothing like the movie
by Movie fan on 5/6/24Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts - GreensboroI hadn't seen the movie in a number of years, but as a fan, I couldn't wait to see the play adaptation. Unfortunately, when we watched the play, there were several critical elements of the story that were changed or left out all together. I understand that a play can't easily capture all of the "movie magic"but (spoilers ahead) changing things like Christian's job, Satine not sleeping with the Duke, Satine not knowing she was dying and wanting to be an actress, (the list goes on), completely changed the emotional trajectory of the story and left it feeling like a trivial mash up of modern tunes that half the audience probably didn't recognize (I did, being younger, but it was cringey). I had to watch the movie a few days later to get the bad taste out of my mouth and remind myself of why I loved the story in the first place.