Premium Content:

Review: Laughs galore with Dolly Diamond

3695_Dolly-15_EFUL_IMAGEDolly Diamond Alive and Intimate | Circus Theatre | Until Friday Friday Feb 12 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½

Cabaret singer Dolly Diamond and her pianist sidekick maestro Mark Jones deliver a show that is filled with hilarity, great tunes and camp style.

- Advertisement -

Well known and respected Melbourne performer Dolly Diamond can certainly deliver a laugh-out-loud one-liner. I laughed all the way through this show, it was a comedic treat.

Diamond and her pianist Jones are a fabulous double act who gave a performance that was risque, outrageous and tapped into some truths that we all share.

Sometimes Fringe shows can be a little bit predictable, if you go see a number of shows in succession you can hear the same songs performed by different people, ukulele’s become common place and sights of people playing a saw like a violin become ho-hum. It seems some performers can get locked in the zeitgeist.

Diamond has a lovely ability to pick tunes that are largely outside the regular fare.  This show had a great mix of old show tunes, long forgotten standards and unique original numbers. It was fresh and fabulous.

Often Diamond would substitute new lyrics into a much loved classic tunes. ‘Que Sera Sera’ will certainly never be the same again.

A highlight of the show is Diamond and Jones working their way through the whole musical ‘Oliver’ in just a few minutes. A rousing chorus of ‘Oom Pah Pah’ certainly brought the crowd together in the style of an old musical hall sing-a-long.

While the show is filled with laughs from start to finish, underlying the overt comedy is too performers who can really deliver the musical goods. Diamond has one hell of a voice.

This is a show worth seeing, make an effort to catch one of the two remaining performances.

Graeme Watson

Latest

On This Gay Day | Legendary DJ Walter Gibbons was born in 1954

He made his mark in NYC in the 1970s.

New tool to help people experiencing homelessness

Find My Way has been launched and provides a portal to essential services.

The hilarious ‘The Play That goes Wrong’ is coming back

It's one of the funniest shows we've ever seen.

Ricky Martin leaves the west coast off his tour itinerary

If you want to see the Latin superstar book a ticket to the east.

Newsletter

Don't miss

On This Gay Day | Legendary DJ Walter Gibbons was born in 1954

He made his mark in NYC in the 1970s.

New tool to help people experiencing homelessness

Find My Way has been launched and provides a portal to essential services.

The hilarious ‘The Play That goes Wrong’ is coming back

It's one of the funniest shows we've ever seen.

Ricky Martin leaves the west coast off his tour itinerary

If you want to see the Latin superstar book a ticket to the east.

Bangarra Dance Theatre will return to Perth this July

The dance company will return to WA for shows in Perth and Albany.

On This Gay Day | Legendary DJ Walter Gibbons was born in 1954

He made his mark in NYC in the 1970s.

New tool to help people experiencing homelessness

Find My Way has been launched and provides a portal to essential services.

The hilarious ‘The Play That goes Wrong’ is coming back

It's one of the funniest shows we've ever seen.

1 COMMENT

Comments are closed.