Dan Illic is in the paper!

A man trapped in the Beaconsfield mine disaster in Tasmania says he is "disgusted" a musical comedy has been written about the tragedy.

"Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor" will debut in Melbourne tomorrow night.

Miner Larry Knight was killed in a rockfall at the mine on Anzac Day 2006, while two others, Brant Webb and Todd Russell, were trapped for 14 days.

Mr Russell said the tragedy was not appropriate subject material for a musical comedy.

"(I feel) disgusted, really, in the way they're going about it and what they're going to call it," he told ABC Radio today.

"When they're calling it 'A-flat Minor' it's appalling I think, just a lack of respect for the Knight family.

"It's better off being left alone, people are trying to get along with lives, trying to move forward, and they just keep using this tragedy of ours."

The promotional material for the 50-minute musical describes it as "the feel-good pisstake of the year ... it's scathing, silly and entirely patchy".

Creator Dan Ilic, who travelled to Beaconsfield for research, said the musical focused more on the media circus around the event than the miners themselves.

The musical took the miners' part, he said.

"I was actually absolutely astonished, as many Australians were, about the media coverage of the event, and how quite often insensitively the media was constantly barraging not only the survivors when they came out, but the townspeople during the event itself," Mr Ilic told ABC Radio.

AAP