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SCENE BREAKDOWN
(times are approximate)

7:30 Check-in (Folies Bergere music playing in background)
  • Desiree floating among the arrivals

  • Check-in techs give audience programs

  • 13 participants get paperwork, costume bits, prop pieces

  • Audience mills around entry & waiting areas

    • 8:00 Action Begins - Story Set-up
  • Gaston welcome
  • 1st Number - Hey Big Spender!
  • Someone steps on Desiree's foot -- she storms off
  • Celeste recognizes prominent patrons in audience
  • Time for next number
  • Desiree is missing! Celeste stalls by singing Bring on the medley
  • Desiree re-enters with Henri
  • Vivien is forced to sing Mein Herr while Celeste and the others go to retrieve Desiree
  • All fuss over Henri
  • The big number — Broadway Tonight!
  • Girls invite audience to dance
  • Can Can!
  • Desiree's solo Diamonds
  • Characters mingle with guests and participants

    • 8:45 MURDER!!!!!!!!
  • Murder at the Moulin Rouge
  • Dessert and cafe as the girls try to sober up their detective

    • 9:00 Henri plays detective..... artistically, of course
  • Henri & Gaston accost, or rather interview participants to assess their guilt
  • Henri questions the showgirls
  • She Had it Comin'

    • 9:15 Putting it to a vote
  • Audience writes down answers

    • 9:30 Denoument
  • Henri makes things clear
  • Prizes
  • Finale — One!

    • 9:40 The End
    Bow, Thanks

    9:45-10 Guests Depart (Background Music)


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