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Restoration -- or reincarnation?

...Miller, and would love it if the first event in the restored theater is the same as its first in 1940, A Night at the Moulin Rouge .The key, it seems, will be whether the special purpose local option sales tax money that attached to the project...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2011-07-17/restoration-or-reinca
High school seniors stage sizzling benefit for historic Miller Theatre

...highlights I discovered in researching my talk: - The Miller opened with a hit musical direct from Broadway, A Night at the Moulin Rouge . - Nov. 2, 1940: CBS radio comedians Lum (Chet Lanck) and Abner (Norris Goff) were the first celebrities to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/14/rho_563065.shtml
Ramblin' Rhodes
Senior project will shine spotlight on the Miller

...finale. "It's Sweet Home Alabama, The Nutcracker and Moulin Rouge," Mr. Ryan said. The pieces highlighted different...Ballet presented The Nutcracker ; and A Night at the Moulin Rouge played there, too. Ms. Derr, who spent a decade...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/07/ric_562155.shtml
Richmond Neighbors
Films paint colorful lives of artists

...tickets. Whatever the reason, scores of famous artists, from Andy Warhol (I Shot Andy Warhol) to Toulouse-Latrec (Moulin Rouge) have been immortalized on the silver screen. Here are a few favorites: POLLOCK (2000): As complicated as one...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/08/10/uhl_91991.shtml
Steven Uhles
Edinburgh Fringe festival gets political this year

...draped in the American flag hand out flyers for "Amerwrecka," a musical billed as "'Fahrenheit 9/11' meets 'Moulin Rouge.'" Across town, comedian Paul Chowdhry tests how well an audience will take his jokes about the July 7 London bombings...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/08/12/art_444864.shtml
Arts
People in the News

...numbness in her hand "and couldn't pick up anything." The 88-year-old Hungarian-born actress starred in "Moulin Rouge" in 1952 and "Queen of Outer Space" in 1958. She has appeared on TV specials, talk shows and game shows and as...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/07/15/ent_458666.shtml
Things to Do
Miller Theater has a rich history in entertainment

...1940. It opened with the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy movie Chump, and the 75-performer stage show, A Night at the Moulin Rouge. - Mr. Miller, who distributed programs in the Grand Opera House as a boy, earlier had bought the Modjeska Theater...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/07/14/rho_458630.shtml
Ramblin' Rhodes
People in the News

...and Cruise divorced in 2001 after almost 10 years of marriage. "When it all exploded and we were in Cannes with 'Moulin Rouge.'... 'My sister and I slept in the same bed together. She would just hold me," Kidman told Vanity Fair...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/06/08/ent_455387.shtml
Things to Do
Expert tells how to find hues to suit lifestyles

...presents is finding art that doesn't clash with it. Mr. Atkins solved that with a black-and-white painting of Moulin Rouge by the artist Hanton, whose signature happens to be red. "Because my walls are so vivid, even though it's painted...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/04/29/liv_451647.shtml
Life & style
Will this year's Oscars measure up?

...good film, though not up there with its chief rivals (the first Lord of the Rings, In the Bedroom and the glorious Moulin Rouge). I don't know why they just didn't give the award to Lord of the Rings in the first place, instead of waiting...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/02/25/osc_444908.shtml
Oscars