I’d ummed & aahed about going to see this – on the one hand it’s a musical & Matt Hetherington is in it, on the other hand – a musical about Shane Warne!
You can see my dilemma.
However the musical and Matt won out and on a very hot Melbourne night I headed for the Atheneum. (I should, in the interests of full disclosure, point out that the deciding factor was probably that the Atheneum Theatre has a large group photo of the original staff on display and my great-aunt is in the photo and I wanted to see that…)
Anyway back to Warnie. It was great. Eddie Perfect was brilliant as Shane – all the little mannerisms were there.
As theatre well the story was a bit weak, the songs (with the exception of the sms song) forgettable, yet it had that something that makes good theatre. By and large Eddie Perfect left Shane’s family alone and concentrated on taking the mick out of Shane which is how it should be.
A very enjoyable night at the theatre and one that the cricket loving, musical hating people in your life will enjoy.
