In 1952, Gene Kelly starred in Singin’ in the Rain, widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time. It got two Oscar® nominations, winning neither. It might be tempting to say that the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences doesn’t treat musicals kindly, but the previous year, another Gene Kelly movie – An…
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Feb
At every performance of my Fringe show, the three life lessons from the Spanish Film Festival got laughs: If a man keeps sending you flowers, he’s probably going to die soon, so don’t make any effort. (From the Spanish movie Flowers) A room in a Colombian love hotel is brighter than a room in a Buenos Aires…
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Feb
There’s a theory that you must be in Northbridge to do well at Fringe. My show is in Mount Hawthorn, but I’ve been getting such a warm reaction from the wonderful packed crowds: first at my previews, and now at Thursday’s opening. It’s so affirming and beautiful. I thought I’d see lots of people who knew each other – and…
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Feb
If you win a plane ticket as a prize, it’s probably part of an elaborate scheme by an awful musician to get revenge on everyone who did something bad to him. (From the Argentine-Spanish movie Wild Tales) It’s more comfortable to smuggle yourself into France on a goods train than underneath a truck. (From the…
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Feb
I made some changes for Friday the 12th’s performance of My Argentina: Learning Spanish and Loving Thatcher, and forgot every line in my final rehearsal! A half hour power nap solved that problem. I was also fighting off a sore throat, but that was good because it naturally made my voice a little deeper and…
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Feb
Wonderfully well! I was nervous before (though a chicken and egg burger helped!), but relaxed once I was on stage. That was in part because I had a great supportive audience. It was nice catching up with old friends. Being Perth, all sorts of people knew each other and met up for the first time…
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Feb
One reason I’m doing a show at Perth’s Fringe World 2016 is a show that I saw at Fringe World 2014. It was called Absolutely. I think my friend and I wanted to see something at The Blue Room Theatre, where, over a decade earlier, I’d staged both a play and a one-man show. A…
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Feb
