by This Is Cabaret | Aug 20, 2014 | Features, Musical Comedy
Few songs capture the spirit of summer in both lyric and melody. Even fewer are as funny, biting and just plain brilliant as Bourgeois & Maurice’s Apocalypso. The track appeared on their last album The Third and hasn’t been off our playlist since we...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 20, 2014 | Interview, Musical Comedy, Previews
Regrets we have a few but snogging Tracey Wilson behind the bike sheds is not among them. We only wish we had met her at school and not all those years after. If there is something we wished we could have done while we had the chance, it would have been to find out...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 13, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
With critics increasingly in the firing line (and in, one case, in hospital), how could I not spend my last show slot of the Fringe taking in this new musical comedy from Charlesworth and Holland Productions? At Edinburgh Fringe, where many shows (and more than a few...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Aug 11, 2014 | Musical Comedy, Reviews, Spoken WOrd
Somewhere between a hiphop gig, theatre, and a TED talk, lies Baba Brinkman’s latest show, The Rap Guide To Religion. Never a direct dig at people for their beliefs, Brinkman is more fascinated with why we have them. He’s investigated the science behind religious...
by This Is Cabaret | Aug 8, 2014 | Musical Comedy, News
If you see the producer of Fascinating Aida around the Edinburgh Fringe, it may be worth your while to give him a wide berth or maybe buy him a drink. David Johnson’s furious response to a request from Ambassador Theatre Group for complimentary tickets to his...
by Franco Milazzo | Aug 4, 2014 | Cabaret, Features, Musical Comedy
As the saying goes, success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. The phenomenon that is the current cabaret scene has more fathers (and mothers and gender-transcending parents) than we have fingers but German composer Kurt Weill is possibly the grandaddy of them...
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