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Theater

Natalie Mendoza is the new Satine in Broadway’s ‘Moulin Rouge!’

By
Johnny Oleksinski
Published Aug. 2, 2021
Updated Aug. 2, 2021, 12:41 p.m. ET

Natalie Mendoza can-can-can.

The Broadway production of “Moulin Rouge!” announced Monday that the actress will take over the leading role of Satine when the musical resumes performances Sept. 24.

In a kind-of homecoming, Mendoza played one of the “Diamond Dogs” in Baz Luhrman’s film 20 years ago. But a few New York theatergoers will remember the actress, who was raised in Australia, for her most notorious stateside role — as the villainess Arachne in Julie Taymor’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.” 

Not many people got to see her and her eight legs. The actress left the problem-plagued production about a month into previews in Dec. 2010, after being injured backstage and suffering a concussion. She was replaced by T.V. Carpio. 

Now Mendoza, 42, will step in for another actress who unexpectedly bowed out of her show.

Natalie Mendoza will take over the role of Satine in "Moulin Rouge!" on Broadway.
Natalie Mendoza will take over the role of Satine in “Moulin Rouge!” on Broadway. @moulinrougebway Instagram

Olivo left “Moulin Rouge!” this spring under odd circumstances, citing the abuse allegations against producer Scott Rudin as one reason. Rudin did not produce or have any part in “Moulin Rouge!”

“I could easily go back to a show and make a lot of money, but I still wouldn’t be able to really control what I was putting out into the world,” Olivo, 44, said in an Instagram video. “In this space, right now, with our industry. Everybody’s scared and nobody’s really doing the stuff that needs to be done. People aren’t speaking out.”

Olivo will still compete for the Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award on Sept. 26 — just two days after “Moulin Rouge!” reopens with a new Sparkling Diamond.

Moulin Rouge! at The Al Hirschfeld Theatre near Times Square
“Moulin Rouge!” is returning to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre near Times Square. Getty Images