Video: Meet MOULIN ROUGE!'s New Stars- John Cardoza & Solea Pfeiffer

There is nothing better than having, like, you know, another soldier in arms

Like, here we go. We're in this together. If we go down, we go down together

And we have not gone down. Not yet. Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

Soleilie Pfeiffer and John Cardosa are the brand new Satine and Christian in the Tony Award-winning best musical Mulan Rouge

And I caught up with them here at the Hirschfeld. It's been an absolute whirlwind, the most glamorous rhinestone confetti-filled whirlwind ever

And I think sometimes, like, replacing on Broadway is such an incredible experience because it's just like, no time for doubt

Just do it and make it happen. And I'm so lucky to get to do this with John, with both, like, just the most gentle, like, been like, you got this

You know? And she does. Evidence of last night. Yes, we're making it

But with someone who knows the show and be like, oh, no, it's totally normal to feel

You know, but this company in this building has, they've been so welcoming and just open arms and ready to receive our version of the show

And people's excitement, both within, like, the fans and just, like, the Broadway community has made me feel so amazing

Thank you, everyone. That was actually one of the greatest part of this that I wasn't anticipating was just, like, all the

the love and support just from the announcement on. And just to feel that kind of continuing is just the best ever

So it's been really lovely. And this is your return to Moulin Rouge

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I did a quick, what felt like a very quick six months on the road

And it was absolutely incredible. This company has been so good to me

And I've met some of my best friends in the world via this show and this

you know, this microcosm of a universe. And so I'm so grateful for the experiences I've had

the experiences that I'm having now. It's been really unbelievable to get to continue the exploration of this character

that I just love so much. And to get to do it with Salea, who is, you know, she really sort of

because Satina and Christian are so much of each other shows and so much of each other trajectory like when you out there with somebody new it really becomes a completely different production

and you have to sort of relinquish any preconceived notion of what the story is going to be

and build it from the ground up again. And so I've gotten to explore the character in a completely fresh, completely new way

And yeah, I'm very lucky to have such a present. a present and a live scene partner

It's amazing. It's amazing. Well, you two went in together. Does it make it a little easier when you get a pudding and going into this big show

There's a huge show. Let me tell you right now, there is nothing better than having, like, you know, another soldier in arms like, here we go

We're in this together. If we go down, we go down together

And we have not gone down. Not yet. No, it's the best

Yes, because it also just feels like, okay, we are creating this together

We are, like, we get to create our version of this love story

and we're going to be on the same page about it. It's a crazy feeling to when you're just like doing a show

You get put in, and then all of a sudden it's like, hello, nice to meet you

Let me look into your eyes and fall in love and whatever

And luckily, we've just been giggling since day. We laugh a lot

And it's been, one of our first, it might have even been our first day rehearsal, we went out and we had our lunch break together and just got to talking and found that we had a lot of similarities

Our philosophies on life and art and the way that we wanted to approach this show and this next chapter of our lives

And so it's been very exciting to have sort of like a partner in that sort of like excavation of this time

It's so lucky. Can you imagine? Yeah. It was like, whew, yeah, it could have easily been a different

situation but instead yeah we really are just like we're the same age or the same

place in our lives we have the same amount of experience and so that all ends itself

to like all right let's go I've said to so many people in this building over the

last couple weeks like it's so nice because it doesn't always happen you hope

that it happens and it does sometimes but I'm just so lucky that when I come to

work I'm just happy to come to work yeah I'm happy to see the people that I'm gonna

see in this building I'm happy that I get to do this this beautiful show and

And yeah I just feel I leaning into the happiness that I feel when I on my way to work You can see that in your performances seriously Yeah Yeah

Oh. Okay, this is such a big show. I want to ask you about the first performance on stage here in New York in this show

I mean, let's talk about your entrance first. I mean, it's not a big, you enter from the sky

You do enter from the sky. Twice. Okay. Full disclosure. My pudding

I was really determined to keep my long nails. I love having long, fantastic, fabulous nails

It makes me feel like I'm Barbara Streisand. I miss them so much. But my first time coming down on that swing

I was like, diamonds are forever and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever, and I was like, well

I can't get down on my own. And I'm like, this is, I were staged me, I dread to, like, comment on

unbuckle me and like everything had to stop. It was like this exciting day. Here we go

Put in. And I'm just like dangling there like egg on my face

a full omelet. And so that was a bummer. The second time down

didn't make it out that time either. Just dangling in my green wings. Like

sorry everyone. But it's okay. And then for the next four days I was

having nightmares about just being stuck up there and like just footage

of me sitting on a swing with like someone in a headset coming and taking me down

just all over TikTok. I was like, that might be my fate, but it was not

Hasn't happened since. Sometimes you need to give things up. Sometimes life is about sacrifice

And there we have it, and I'm learning to live. Your nails are beautiful

just so you know. Thank you so much. They're beautiful at that length too. But those long nails are immortalized

on the pillar outside this building. Don't take a look. They're beautiful. And so they live on

in perpetuity outside, and they're really big. So, you know, as you would

some you lose some that was a big big loss in my life but never again never again will i be stuck up

there and i'm a pro you are that belt gets off easy you eased off that swing last night beautifully all right

you hear that everyone this is such a gorgeous show what's it like living in the world in moulon

ruge i mean people fly in from all over the world audiences to come see moulon rouge here on broadway

what is it like for you living in this gorgeous show oh my gosh it incredible it such We were saying earlier like it such a feast for the senses Yeah You know it the music the lighting the design of everything

is, it's so immersive. It's hard not to lose yourself in the world of the show

And, you know, and at its core, it's so poetic and romantic

And I think everybody wants to lose themselves in this sort of transcendent love story

that has been such a staple in pop culture for decades. now. And it's, um, the fact that you get to, to step into the theater and experience it sort of like

360, like all around you and, um, and feel the music sort of vibrating you. You get to, to experience

that story come to life. Um, because I mean, Nicole Kim and Innuir McGregor, it's the stuff of legend and

and impossible to recreate. Uh, but we are breathing some new life into this story that we are so

grateful that people have been so appreciative of. And I mean, it's, it's why it's, it's, it's

been it's been running for as long as it has and become such a staple here in New York for us now

Yeah, I feel very, very lucky to be a part of this. Yeah, and it's just a full fantasy. I love

getting to transform into Soutine. Like, I'm telling you, the girl who walks into the building

and then the girl who walks on stage are like unrecognizably different. And I love

getting the chance to tap into what feels like, just like the divine feminine

And to have it be celebrated like this, I think it allows people to really just feel safe being themselves

I think that there's something about this show that feels like a very safe space. And I think there's something really beautiful

about femininity being glamorized and the power that a woman can hold

You know, at the end of the day, Satina's the one, keeping everything together. And so it's a cool thing to be able to live in this world

of just like total fantasy in this set. Like you can't help but just be totally

you are there. You are enveloped in this world. And the attention to detail

like you really just, even up on stage, you can get totally lost in it

And there's just like, we are on stage a lot. And so it really does feel like

no matter what's happening in the world for the next, you know, like two and a half hours

it's go time. It's a show that really happens to you. And if you are willing to go on the ride

and allow the show to happen to you, you're going to have a great night. Yeah