An Officer And A Gentleman

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

...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.

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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'.

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

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....

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Updated On: 5/21/12 at 04:58 AM

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!

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