About this episode
<p>My guest today is Baz Luhrmann, the award-winning director whose films include <em>Moulin Rouge!, Strictly Ballroom</em>, <em>The Great Gatsby, Elvis, </em>and<em> Romeo + Juliet. </em>His newest film is <em>EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert</em>, a critically acclaimed documentary about Elvis that’s playing right now in theaters and in IMAX. Before becoming a massively successful film director, Baz began his showbiz career as an actor, and as a ballroom dancer, in Australia. His first film was <em>Strictly Ballroom</em>, which came out in 1992, and became one of the highest-grossing Australian films of all time. It was originally a play, and there’s a song in the film that was part of the story all the way back when it was first performed on stage. And that’s what Baz and I talked about for this episode.</p><p>For more info, visit <a href="https://songexploder.net/baz-luhrmann"><strong>songexploder.net/baz-luhrmann.</strong></a></p>