Review of Pretty Woman: The Musical, starring Samantha Barks & Andy Karl, on Broadway
Pretty Woman, the 1990 film that married the story of Pygmalion to the annoying trope of the 'hooker with a heart of gold,' has found its way to Broadway in a musical that aims high but falls short of the mark. Burdened by a lackluster score by Bryan Adams, whose style is more suited to country/pop than the stage, Pretty Woman: The Musical is what you get when bad music happens to good singers.Vivian Ward (Samantha Barks), a prostitute one can never imagine actually turning a trick, picks up...