Pretty Woman: The Musical review, Piccadilly Theatre: no amount of feminist T-shirts can save this regressive, over-priced spin-off

By Dominic Cavendish

 

Danny Mac as Edward and Aimie Atkinson as Vivian in Pretty Woman: The Musical CREDIT: HELEN MAYBANKS

 

Predictable ire has already been directed at this musical spin-off to the 1990 film sensation that made a star of Julia Roberts and a fortune for director Garry Marshall and Touchstone (an offshoot of Disney) – raking in £362 million.

 

The movie’s mainstream success was surprising at the time, given that it entailed the Pygmalion-esque fairy tale of a Hollywood hooker – poor and pretty (natch) – who gets acquainted with a rich, handsome, unattached businessman (Richard Gere), and swept off her feet, learning to socially transition from pavement to penthouse.

 

Full Story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/pretty-woman-musical-review-piccadilly-theatre-no-amount-feminist/

What's the point of linking the article you can't read. 

It's not as if any of us ever married or had LTRs with prostitutes ............

 

What I didn't like about 'Pretty woman' is they never showed the relationship after the marriage, you know, the bit where he's claiming she was 'an educated woman from a wealthy, respectable family' to all his pals, or see her moving her 'brother' in and stealing his house and fortune.

Edited March 4, 20206 yr by BritManToo