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Old Boys' News
Blanshay musical nets 14 Tony nominations
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, a play co-produced by Old Boy Adam Blanshay ’98 has received 14 nominations for Tony Awards, it was announced Oct 15.
The nominations include: Best Musical, Best Direction, Best Book, Best Choreography, and Best Costume Design, with best-performance nods for three of the actors.
This puts Moulin Rouge! The Musical only two nominations short of the record set by Hamilton in 2016.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical opened on Broadway in June 2019, but the entire Broadway season was suspended in March when New York’s theatres were closed due to COVID-19.
Due to the shortened season, this year’s Best Musical category only included two other plays: Alanis Morrisette’s Jagged Little Pill and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
Founded in London in 2017, Adam Blanshay Productions has been involved in over sixty plays internationally, and have received six Tony Awards, seven Olivier Awards, and one Helpmann Award. The company is reported to also have a Montreal project in the works.
Adam is also creating a musical theatre web series called The Theatre Channel, where stage stars perform classics at The Theatre Cafe in the heart of London's West End. The first episode launched Oct. 2 and a second, Halloween-themed episode will launch Oct. 30. Viewers can watch by buying tickets on the site.
A US tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical is planned, as are London and Australian productions, but all have been postponed during the pandemic.
In 2013, Adam won a Tony Award for co-producing the hit Broadway musical comedy Kinky Boots. He was also co-producer of A Chorus Line, Old Times, Merrily We Roll Along, and a Broadway production of Bullets over Broadway.
The company’s current projects include: Newfound Hope Songs, Hello Dolly, What’s In A Name? (UK Tour), Moulin Rouge (Broadway), La Cage aux Folles [The Play] (Park Theatre), Dream Girls (UK Tour), Sunny Afternoon (UK Tour), Notre Dame de Paris (David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center), The Inheritance (Broadway), City of Angels (West End), Come From Away (West End, Broadway, Toronto, North America, Australia), Waitress (West End) and Kinky Boots (UK Tour).
