The Moulin Rouge club at the turn of the century. Scenes from today's club interspersed with a Toulouse Lautrec poster and a historic shot of the garden with the stucco elephant. Five minutes to showtime at the Moulin Rouge.
Dancers stretch beautiful legs along walls and bend their backs.
Marissa, the female lead, gazes thoughtfully at a poster of her heroine, Marilyn Monroe, which is pinned to her dressing room door. A small man with a moustache appears. We're still waiting on some coach parties. There is a collective sigh. Things are not what they used to be at the theatre that gave the world the can-can.