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Originally Posted by awaywithfairies  I booked a pile of shows on Thursday at my local Ticketmaster outlet in Sydney. It's an independent record store owned by a husband-and-wife team and I always book my Comfest tickets with the wife. Whenever I turn up, it's a case of "It's March so you must be here for the Comedy Festival". She's very cluey and always gets my complicated order exactly right. This year I even got to sit behind the counter with her with a cup of tea while she drove the computer! |
Last year, Spawn of Satan and I turned up at the box office with a list that covered half the festival, and scared the poo out of a poor woman who'd only just started working there *g* We ran into her again this year for our first ticket run, and she remembered us from last year! She said she really appreciated that we were patient with her, cause she was so new at it, and we did have a really complex list, and that we helped her win the "smartarse comment of the festival award" *g* Because someone in the line bitched about how long we were taking, so her supervisor came to see what was happening, and she told her "oh, they're just buying the whole festival" *G*
She was very excited to show us how much she'd learnt when we turned up this year *g* I have to say, it's lovely to run into familiar faces at festival.
I'm glad people are enjoying my reviews, and I have another one to add *g*
Every Film Ever Made - Well, SoS is rating this as her favourite show of the festival so far. But we've only been here a few days, so that isn't technically as impressive as it might be *g*
Still, I think this might stay near the top, if not at the top, of our list of favourite shows. Last year, we saw this same group perform The Hound of the Baskervilles, and it was a fantastic, frantic little production, and this year's show has managed to exceed last year's performance. And that's in spite of the fact that we saw last year's show at the end of the run, when they'd had lots of practice, and this year's show at the start.
The dynamic between these three performers is great. They take audience contributions and sudden inspirations in their stride, leading to some wonderful moments of unexpected fun. They seem to feed off each others' performances, with random developments from one leading to new jokes from the others. We watched Adam threaten to pash Robby - I'm still not completely certain that it wasn't planned, and doesn't happen every night - and the idea then was threaded throughout the remainder of the show, reappearing at opportune moments, and resulted in some wonderfully terrifed faces from Robby. It probably helps that Tegan and Robby both have experience as improvisors, and that Adam has had enough stand-up experience to know how to react fast and well.
The more films you've seen, the more you'll get out of this show. and if you've seen "Say Anything..." you'll get a bonus laugh that many people in the audience won't get *g* But even if you've only seen half the films they compress into the hour they have on stage, you'll enjoy this show.
Just don't go if you don't want to have the endings of Sixth Sense, Fight Club, The Others or The Crying Game revealed to you *G* But then, if you're still unspoilt for ALL of those, you probably don't watch movies and wouldn't get any of it anyway *G*