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Director Alex Timbers from"Moulin Rouge!" The Broadway Musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on July 9, 2019 in New York City.
As careers in musical theater go, few have encompassed more diverse -- or more purely theatrically-imaginative -- subjects than that of director Alex Timbers. He's transformed a boxing ring into a musical centerpiece ; turned a giant theater into a spooky funhouse ; moved viewers through a dance club to hear the story of Imelda Marcos through the music of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim ; and even convincingly portrayed our seventh president as an emo-rock anti-hero .
"I'm not someone with a big music background and know-how of the technical elements," Timbers confesses, "but I've learned that on the job -- and you kind of have to to become a musical theater director." He's been especially drawn to productions with the potential to be realized in a way that naturally invites the audience to engage with what's happening onstage.
That he's had a direct hand in transforming a few iconic films into musicals is, he says, both a bit of a coincidence and an indicator of what he values going into a new project.
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