Melbourne Model: the Musical was a 2008 musical satire of the political circumstances surrounding the implementation of the controversial 'Melbourne Model'; a radical restructuring of the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Melbourne, one of Australia's top universities. Written by Fregmonto Stokes, the show was the last produced by the 15-year-old theatre group Crunch, based in the School of Creative Arts at the university - pending its winding down as a result of the Melbourne Model. The musical, despite being a student production, received media attention from Australia's mainstream press, perhaps due to the implication of the Melbourne Model's main proponents, Vice-chancellor Glyn Davis and Provost Peter McPhee, over cuts to the Arts Faculty, for which the university had already come under much scrutiny in the Australian press.
Melbourne Model ran a repeat season during 2009, coinciding with that year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival in April.
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