If this is what Australians do to Gilbert and Sullivan, I'm just grateful I don't live in Australia. And this is not "little Englander" chauvinism - I absolutely loved the US reworking in "Papp's Pirates", with the splendid Kevin Kline, Patricia Routledge and company. This is a perfectly awful burlesque of that fabulous production, and so derivative I'm surprised there weren't intellectual property law implications. "Moronic" one reviewer called it, and I can only agree.
I could pity Sir William and Sir Arthur spinning in their graves at this production - except that they would not recognise it. Whatever this appalling pantomime is - it ain't Gilbert and Sullivan!
I could pity Sir William and Sir Arthur spinning in their graves at this production - except that they would not recognise it. Whatever this appalling pantomime is - it ain't Gilbert and Sullivan!