Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend song is also featured in the 2001 film "Moulin Rouge!", in which it is sung principally by Nicole Kidman in the role of Satine, the (fictional) star performer of the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris, at the turn of the 20th century. This film version is technically a musical adaptation that director Baz Luhrmann titled "Sparkling Diamonds". Although it consists almost entirely of an adaptation of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", this version differs from the lyrics in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in several ways. For example, it does not include the name Harry Winston in the chant of
The Boy Friend (musical) The Boy Friend (musical) The Boy Friend (sometimes misspelled The Boyfriend) is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history (after "Chu Chin Chow" and "Oklahoma!") until these were all surpassed by "Salad Days". This musical marked Julie Andrews' American stage debut. Set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring Twenties, "The Boy Friend" is a comic pastiche of 1920s shows (in particular early Rodgers and Hart musicals such as "The Girl Friend"). Its relatively small