The Parisian cabaret, which escaped disaster at the end of April, will offer a cancan for the passing of the Olympic flame on July 15.
The wings of the Moulin Rouge will regain all their strength on July 5, at 11 p.m. sharp. To inaugurate their first lighting, the famous cabaret on Boulevard de Clichy orchestrates a sound and light show with around twenty dancers coming to meet the public to perform a French Cancan, the venue’s trademark, in front of the facade.
The wings, currently being finished, will arrive Monday June 24 in the morning to be installed one by one on the terrace. Each fin, made of steel and aluminum, weighs 110 kilos and retains its original aesthetic. The operation will be camouflaged by a tarpaulin which will be removed with all the scaffolding on July 1st.
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The event was enough to delight the local residents, struck with amazement and excitement, when on Thursday April 26 in the morning, they discovered the wings on the pavement. The legendary propeller came loose around 1:45 a.m., about half an hour after the last spectators had left, taking with it the letters M, O and U, located on the facade.
“The Moulin Rouge without its wings is no longer the Moulin Rouge!”, “It’s funny. It’s like cutting off the head of the Eiffel Tower.”, “The windmill without its wings is sad”, the people in the neighborhood interviewed by AFP were moved. The incident, due according to management to a “Technical problem”fortunately did not hurt anyone.
The oldest Parisian cabaret, with its 135th birthday which it will celebrate on October 6, the Moulin Rouge was founded during the Belle Époque in 1889. The place then helped to make the capital the most attractive city of the moment. A place where reigned “a crazy atmosphere where the show takes place both on stage and in the room: aristocrats and thugs in caps rub shoulders in joyful complicity, crews from the beautiful neighborhoods and the common people of Paris have fun together in the total euphoria”, we read on the official website of the institution.
Cradle of the French cancan, the Moulin Rouge has hosted illustrious personalities, including the painter Toulouse Lautrec, who immortalized Louise Weber, alias “la Goulue”, a famous dancer who ignited the Parisian scene with her frenzied French cancan. Mistinguett, Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Line Renaud, Bourvil… will perform there. And today, the magic still works. Review Fairywhere a troupe of 80 artists recruited from all over the world exhibit their costumes of feathers, rhinestones and sequins attracts 600,000 spectators per year.
