2008 Shows
Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams
Sammy J & Heath McIvor
Directed by Alan Brough (Spicks & Specs)
Bosco Theatre, Federation Square
8.15pm Tue-Sat & 7.15pm Sunday
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Take the music of Disney, the drama of Lord of the Rings, and the emotion of Les Miserables...then blindfold them, beat them, regain their trust, beat them again, and you might end up with something resembling Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams.
Award-winning comedian Sammy J (Spicks and Specks) teams up with award-winning puppeteer Heath McIvor (Walking With Dinosaurs) for what promises to be an award-winning comedy spectacular.
It‘s a musical. For adults. With puppets.
“Gleefully raucous, meticulously crazy, charmingly revolting, achingly funny.” Beat Magazine
The Axis of Awesome Comeback Spectacular!
Jordan Raskopoulos, Lee Naimo & Benny Davis
Directed by Nicola Parry (Thank God You‘re Here)
Portland Room, Portland Hotel, Crn Russell & Little Collins Street
10pm Tue-Sat & 9pm Sunday
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For 42 years The Axis of Awesome was the world‘s greatest band. Like all great musical artists — The Beatles, Madonna, Chingy — they adapted their style for each new generation of music lovers. From the 60s to the 90s, from disco to emo, the Axis made their mark on musical history.
Witness Australia‘s newest musical comedy sensation pretend to be Australia‘s oldest musical comedy sensation with their (somewhat fictional) Comeback Spectacular!
The Axis of Awesome is Jordan Raskopoulos (The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, The Man With The Dominant Claw), Benny Davis (The Delusionists, Blank the Musical) and Lee Naimo (Scrabble Unscripted, Australia‘s Funniest Home Video Show).
Supported by Polish boy-band sensation, 3Sum
Meat the Musical
Amelia Jane Hunter & Hannah Gadsby
Directed by Lawrence Mooney
Acacia Room, Victoria Hotel, 215 Little Collins St
8.30pm Tue-Sun & 7.30pm Sunday
Inseparable identical twins Kaye and Berv inherit the family butchery 'Mountains of Meat', a little shop of big horrors with carcasses in the closet and a prize-winning sausage. Now some dodgy health and safety standards threaten to divide the twins forever. Do they have the guts to go all the way for blood?
Meat the Musical combines the raw comic talents of two of Australia‘s most outrageously different comedians. Amelia Jane Hunter (2007 Moosehead Award recipient, Keith Flipp, Roadhouse) is sharp as a blade steak. Hannah Gadsby‘s (Winner Raw Comedy 2006, Comedy Zone 2007) droll and dry delivery packs more sinew than a chuck steak stew.
"Deadpan perfection." Skinny Magazine
"Brave and brilliant." Three Weeks
Allsopp & Henderson‘s The Jinglists
Directed by Ansuya Nathan (A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished)
Bosco Theatre, Federation Square
9.30pm Tue-Sat & 8.30pm Sunday
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The Jinglists is the new show from the sublimely surreal duo that brought you A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished (2006 MICF Best Newcomer Nominees).
Reclusive jingle-writers, Loman and Leigh, live and work in a strangely dysfunctional state of inter-dependency and have not left their apartment in years. Mad-scientists of the jingle world, they find comfort and meaning in their work, crooning crippled emotions to catchy melodies. But both work and friendship are tested when Love walks in the door.
“Henderson and Allsopp are wonderfully talented — as left field comedians and as singers.” The Age.
“*****An organ-shudderingly hilarious two-hander... indecently funny... a potential cult monster... it may be the most joyously deranged hour you‘ll ever pay to spend.” The Metro
“***** A real work of genius. Funny, absurd and desperately intelligent in equal measure.” Threeweeks