France Trip: Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show

Our trip in Paris will not be completed without visiting Moulin Rouge show. It is a cabaret show where all the women dancing in topless. Lusty? Sexy? Well, get rid that thoughts of your mind before watching this show, because this show offers more than meets the eye.

There three show times during the the night, 7 p.m., 9 p.m., and 11 p.m. The later you watch the show, the cheaper the entrance ticket.  Actually we planned to watch the 9 p.m. show, but since the tickets were sold out, so we changed to 11 p.m. Waiting untill 11 p.m. was not an easy things to do, because most stores in Paris are closed at 9 p.m. At first we wait at the Starbucks in front of Moulin Rouge, then we have to leave at 9 p.m. because of its closing time. Then we took taxi to Hard Rock Cafe to buy some souvenirs, then to spend more time, we took a walk back to the Moulin Rouge. We arrived at Moulin Rouge at 10.30 p.m and we saw many people have already queued to enter the show.

me before entering the show

It took us about 30 minutes queuing until we can enter to the show. That night audiences were mostly mid 30s-40s couples, a group of 20s women or men, and Asian tourists (like us! LOL).  It was nice to see how people dress in Paris, they're so fashionably chic, even for the 40s couple.

Finally we get our seat. When buying the ticket, we already booked the seat as well and you can choose to book with drink or not. We choose not to book with drink. The couple besides us looked at us with pity and offer us their drink, but we said thank you and refuse to drink because that's what how we booked the seat.

Then the show started. It was musical show with lots of dances. The show are using french language, so pardon for my misunderstanding. From what I saw, it told the stories from the early age of Paris city to the current year. The dress and properties of the stage already described them all. Actually the singing were lip-sync, but still enjoyable. To make the story more colorful, they add some variations like circus, swimming with snakes, and my most favorite, the pantomime.

During the pantomime, the mime picked 4 audiences to go on the stage, and after walking around, he asked me and my travelling partner to go on stage! At first I said no, but because he insisted, so I decided to go to the stage. We were asked to have role-playing which was directed by him. Everybody got their own role. I became the clapperboard technician, and my travelling partner became the Asian tourist who flirted with somebody else's girlfriend. It was really fun.

Unfortunately the audiences weren't allowed to take any picture during the show, so the playful part of me and my travelling partner at the stage of Moulin Rouge will only be cherished in our mind as our best moment in Paris. The songs they sang were also catchy, especially the Féerie song, until now me and my travelling partner always remember Moulin Rouge whenever we heard similar tune in somewhere else.

after the show

The show finished at 1.30 a.m. Once the show finished, we rushed ourselves to the exit door and directly looking for taxi. We did that because there will be many people looking for taxi as well and the metro has already stops at 00.30 a.m.


XOXO,
The Tourist