There’s a certain kind of cultural blind spot that happens when something is packaged “wrong.” A film flops, critics shrug, and everything attached to it gets quietly filed away as disposable. That’s exactly what happened to Grease 2 – and, by extension, to “Cool Rider,” performed by Michelle Pfeiffer. But strip away the baggage of…
There’s something deeply fitting about Rebel Wilson making her directorial debut with a musical. Joyous, scrappy, and unmistakably Australian, The Deb feels like a love letter to the kind of films that shaped her – the bold, eccentric classics like Muriel’s Wedding, Strictly Ballroom, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert that didn’t…
Towards the end of the new Australian musical The Deb there’s an uplifting song-and-dance sequence to a ditty titled “Pretty Strong”, and that’s an acceptable enough term to describe Rebel Wilson‘s directorial debut. The comedienne makes for a serviceable presence behind the camera as she injects an infectiousness and often-home-grown-specific humour into the proceedings of…
Thanks to Rialto Distribution, we have 5n double digital in-season passes (Admit 2) to see Rebel Wilson‘s directorial debut in theatres, the charming musical comedy The Deb, screening from April 9th, 2026. An original musical comedy about two teenage cousins who dig deep to find self-acceptance and a date to the Debutante Ball in a…
Natalie Abbott burst onto the scene as Muriel Heslop in Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, earning Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations in the process. And now, she brings her comedic brilliance and powerhouse vocals to The Lovers, a popified take on Shakespeare’s classic ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’; you can read our review here. As the…
Towards the end of the new Australian musical The Deb there’s an uplifting song-and-dance sequence to a ditty titled “Pretty Strong”, and that’s an acceptable enough term to describe Rebel Wilson‘s directorial debut. The comedienne makes for a serviceable presence behind the camera as she injects an infectiousness and often-home-grown-specific humour into the proceedings of…
