Moulin Rouge Showgirl
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week it’s off to the Moulin Rouge - the number one cabaret show in the universe (and one of the top attractions in Paris).
Luckily for me, I got to go backstage after the show to meet one of the lead dancers, Amanda Chapman, who has been a staple feature of the show for the past 12 years.
She explains how she landed the gig as a showgirl as an 18-year-old in Australia, where the snakes are stored, and why dancing topless is like a badge of honour among the dancers.
If you want to find out more about the Moulin Rouge, visit the official site here.
Otherwise, see more pics from the show here on The Earful Tower's official site here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's Monday in Paris. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast, which is brought to you by French Today, |
| 0:05.3 | audiobooks teaching you French. You might think that there is a bit of excitement in my voice today, and that's because there is. |
| 0:12.9 | I had a really great interview for this episode. I went to the Moulin Rouge, the Moulin Rouge. It's French for |
| 0:19.4 | the Red Windmill, And you maybe have seen |
| 0:22.7 | this big red windmill up in Montmartin. You maybe even know that it's cabaret and dancing that |
| 0:28.1 | goes on by. Maybe you see the film with Nicole Kidman. Maybe you just wonder what it's all about. |
| 0:34.2 | It is a bit of a mystery and I've been living in Paris for four years. I've always been |
| 0:37.7 | intrigued by it and Fortune has smiled upon the yearful tower. Lady Fortune, the fickle goddess |
| 0:44.4 | of Fortune because I was fortunate enough to go and see the show as some of you Instagram followers |
| 0:50.2 | will remember from just a few days ago. There's a clue. Follow on Instagram and you get to see |
| 0:55.8 | all this extra stuff. Anyway, I went and saw the show and managed to go backstage afterwards |
| 1:01.3 | for an interview with today's guest, Amanda Chapman, an Australian who has been working at the |
| 1:06.7 | Moulin Rouge for 12 years. She's one of the lead dancers. If you've been to the show, |
| 1:10.9 | you've probably seen her. And yeah, so we weren't in the studio. We were behind the scenes |
| 1:15.7 | there talking about what it's like to be a dance at the Moulin Rouge, what goes on behind closed |
| 1:20.4 | doors, what happens when something goes wrong, where do they keep the snakes, all kinds of |
| 1:25.2 | things. The kind of thing you'd expect from a Neufel Tower interview, |
| 1:28.9 | which, if it's your first time around here, I do this every single week. |
| 1:32.2 | Interview an interesting person from around Paris. |
| 1:35.0 | And it is supported as well by Patreon followers who pay a monthly subscription |
| 1:39.9 | for a lot of the bonus content, which I can promote as well now tomorrow. |
| 1:44.6 | Tuesday I'll be doing a walk show up by the Sacre Cur with YouTube superstar Jay Swanson. |
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