from happy talk to head banging

over the holidays, the new york times' christopher isherwood took in a double feature of rodgers and hammerstein's south pacific and the arena-rock, jukebox musical rock of ages:

As we settled in [at "Rock of Ages"] I commented to my companion that it was a pretty safe bet that I was the only one in the theater who’d just been to see “South Pacific.”

“You’re probably the only person here who’s heard of ‘South Pacific,’ ” she replied.