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Muriel's Wedding the musical: how channelling Mark Latham brought Muriel up to date by Caitlin Welsh

In their new Australian musical, Simon Phillips, Kate Miller-Heidke and PJ Hogan have brought Porpoise Spit to the stage " with a modern twistFor 20 years people had been telling PJ Hogan that Muriel's Wedding could work as a musical.His 1994 debut feature told the story of dumpy, dreamy twenty-something Muriel Heslop, who retreated from her disappointing life and verbally abusive family by blasting ABBA songs and fa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM on November 17, 2017

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