Not the Australian musical but it covers the same period - Lola's expedition to Australia. She's played by a perfectly cast Linda Cropper. Nicholas Eadie is her young American manger, Danny Adcock the editor she horsewhipped, Peter Whitford and Pat Thompson the couple who hire her.
Ian Gilmour directed, Tony Morphett wrote. Morphett is a very good writer but this isn't one of his best (although changes may have been made without his involvement). It's very bitsy. Scene-scene-scene. I think that's a little unavoidable with these plays maybe. It felt like it should be, well, a stage musical with Lola doing full numbers.
Maybe this needed to focus more on the Eadie-Cropper relationship - how they met, fell in love/lust/whatever, leading up to her death.
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