An Officer And A Gentleman
An Officer And A Gentleman
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#1An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/19/12 at 11:09pm
I don't think they liked it.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/musicals/romance-struggles-for-flight-as-chemistry-fizzles-20120518-1yvk9.html.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/an-officer-and-a-gentleman/story-e6frewyr-1226361075705
Updated On: 5/19/12 at 11:09 PM
#2An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/20/12 at 1:50amDidn't know they had finished previews, hence the reason tickets for today's show where 160.00.
#2An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/20/12 at 2:25am...and the capacity is at about 50% last time I checked for the upcoming shows. The musical is awful, I mean there are some enjoyable moments but it is cliché, cardboard characters, generic music that often has nothing to do with the story or characters.....we get such trash in Australia.
#3An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/20/12 at 2:29amThey snuck to the other side of the world to do this thing and I'm STILL upset about it!
MamasDoin'Fine
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
#4An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/20/12 at 7:10pm
Had this show opened anywhere else but Sydney Australian it would have close the next night.
What a con.
It appears that Australia has become the out, out, out of town try out for shows that once were a movie hit .
One popular song from the movie doesn't make a musical.
When are producers going to understand that Australians are not idiots. Australians as reported today are one of the largest visitors to NYC.
With a mess of a book, a score that has no universal cohesion and the two leads who have as much charisma as 2 icebergs coming together.
Charging $135.00 a seat to sit through this tortuous affair you should save
you money and walk 5 minutes down the street from the Star Casino and visit
the IMAX theatre where you can see all the passion, thrilling music and
real emotions which this musical lacks.
As they say in 'Damn Yankees'.. 'One, two and three strikes you are out'.
#5An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/21/12 at 12:55amWill wait till all the discounts start pouring in later this week..I am guessing the show has no plans to tour to Melbourne?
Jay94
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/11
#6An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:32am
The state of musical theatre in Australia is truly pitiful. We used to have a culture that adored the theatre (a show would open a year after it played Broadway) but now most people are theatrically illiterate. If it's not based on a movie then chances are it won't play here. I'm hoping The Book of Mormon is made into a movie, so we can get it here afterwards.
Updated On: 5/21/12 at 04:32 AM
sydneyboi
Chorus Member Joined: 8/31/08
#7An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:34amBOM is supposed to be coming here next year...
#8An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/21/12 at 4:58am
omg, the book writer has a bitch about one of the accurate pans of the show:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/response-to-review-of-an-officer-and-a-gentleman-the-musical/story-e6frg8n6-1226362419570
LOL
He is right that the failure of this musical (which is inevitable now) is not going to do well for new musicals in Australia, but if they are anything like this musical or the other mediocre new musicals with Australian origins he cites (DR ZHIVAGO, PRISCILLA), it won't be a big loss.
Perhaps this failure, along with DR ZHIVAGO can be a lesson to the producers that Australians do have standards (that said, in comparison to AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMEN, DR ZHIVAGO was an artistic triumph and had the right intentions, so it's a shame that it turned out the way it did).
It is really nice that people are spending money to open new shows here, and trying new things. We just need something of a better quality I think....
Jay94
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/11
#9An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/21/12 at 6:11amOh god, just remembered that King Kong is supposedly premiering here. And then we just get all of the mediocre flops like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Addams Family, Shrek and Ghost. At least South Pacific is coming.
#10An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/21/12 at 10:23am
The Addams Family should do great here, I don't understand the hate for that show. It was a fun night in the theatre and sometimes thats all theatre needs to be!
#11An Officer And A Gentleman
Posted: 5/21/12 at 11:04amI just realized that the porn version of this movie would require no change to the title whatsoever.
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