The Pirates of Penzance

God knows what affected the nation's sense of humor and sensibility here in Australia, but this production was a gigantic hit in 1983 and this film played for months on end breaking records in cinemas across Australia. Middle aged women went to see it dozens of times and it became the auntie and nieces repeat movie visit of the year. And 1983 was a terrible year for Oz cinemas with a video boom happening. PIRATES even was remade here with Kristy Mc Nichol and Christopher Atkins, such was the fever! and on top of that it was revived on stage and toured Nationwide at least 3 times into the 90s. Then of course we went on to make PRISCILLA and MURIEL and STRICTLY BALLROOM and all the rest of the musical campery Oz is known for. Women could just not get enough of Rex Smith and Kevin Kline. They just went crazy. Such is Australia.