Can Pretty Woman navigate the movie-to-musical path in Australia?

After the worrying early closures of Beetlejuice and Back to the Future, the movie-to-musical path is no longer a guarantee of success, but Pretty Woman: the Musical is giving it a shot.
Pretty Woman The Musical. Photo: Daniel Boud.

When fans of the spicy Julia Roberts and Richard Gere-led 1990 rom-com Pretty Woman rocked up to the Melbourne premiere of the movie-turned-stage-musical at the glittering Regent Theatre, they were rewarded with an exciting surprise appearance.

‘You’re late.’

Samantha Jade played Kylie Minogue in the miniseries INXS: Never Tear Us Apart and we should be so lucky she’s our Vivian, with the triple-threat absolutely knocking it out of the Regent and on to the limo-parked street.

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.