Stand up comedy is no laughing matter. Yes, that was delivered pun fully intended with a straight face. Thus was this matter-of-fact elucidated and illustrated last evening at the Esplanade Theatre when our very own Singapore Idol, the undisputed icon and beacon of the local comedy circuit took to the stage in a one-man one-woman one-person show ( Read more... )

I watched this last year and considering that it was billed accordingly as a "rerun", i.e. same show to milk more moolah off the paying public while saving production costs, I did not commit myself. However, I arranged tickets for my colleagues, securing them the best seats in the house for the budget, the very same in which I sat in the first run ( Read more... )

Like Rat Race and It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World before it, the oft bandied-about lessons of "too many cooks spoil the broth" and "don't put all you eggs in one basket" did not apply to Sing Dollar!, where the biggest and best names in local theatre were culled for this madcap musical ( Read more... )

10 minutes to curtains up and the house was still only sparsely seated and one almost got worried for the star of the hour. Perhaps the last excursion's dismal and disappointing showing still registered in the mind ( Read more... )

To say it was disappointing would be a gross understatement and putting it lightly. Perhaps it was our own fault for having had such high expectations of the show, or maybe the organisers should be taken to task for misrepresentation and false advertising ( Read more... )

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