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[The Hen]

Got my three tickets for the Canberra concert.

Really looking forward to it.

[dom]

The Chaser Announces National Tour

After sell-out seasons at the Sydney Big Laugh and Adelaide Cabaret
festivals, the team behind the ABC TV series CNNNN and The Chaser
Decides are embarking on their first national tour, bringing their stage
show, Cirque Du Chaser to audiences in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney,
Newcastle, Wollongong, and Canberra this September/October.

Delivering their political satire in the form of stand up, sketch, live music,
and video, the double-Logie award winning team returns to their roots
and gets back to what theatre is really about: abusing arts grants

“The show actually has nothing to do with Cirque du Soleil”, said Julian
Morrow. “We certainly won’t be doing amazing acrobatics or have high
production values. But it will be incredibly pretentious and ridiculously
over-priced, so there’s a link there I guess.”

Cirque du Chaser has already been critically well received. "Simply
brilliant," Advertiser reporter Rebecca Harrington said after watching a
rehearsal. "Cirque du Chaser is the funniest show Ive seen since I was
invented for publicity purposes."

The team plans to deal with the transition to live stage performance by
using the same technique that made their TV shows so popular. "Were
getting Kath & Kim to do a show immediately before ours" said Morrow.

We report, you believe


Cirque Du Chaser

Sat 17th September
Brisbane Powerhouse
Bookings: 07 3358 8600

Sat 24th September
Illawarra Performing Arts Centre
Bookings: 02 4226 3366

29th Sept - 2nd Oct
Melbourne
The Malthouse
Bookings: 03 9685 5111
or Fringe Tix

Fri 14th October
Parramatta Riverside
Bookings: 02 8839 3399

Sat 15th October
Civic Theatre Newcastle
Bookings: 02 4929 1977

Sat 22nd October
Canberra Theatre Playhouse
Bookings: 02 6275 2700

TICKETS NOW ON SALE IN ALL VENUES.

Please go to www.laughingstock.com.au for more info and online booking
details.

[Emperor Fadeaway]

Good to see the boys taking a bit of a risk with a national tour!

Also good to see that Adelaide, Hobart and Perth completely missed out - those bastards deserve no less.  Of course, you do realise that if you ever tour Hobart you have to work twice as hard because theres 2000 heads in an audience of 1000 people.  

So is it a NEW show, or just a rehash of the one you guys did a few months back?  Doesnt make a difference to me really, because I didnt go to the last one    ...but just wondering.  

Im expecting an answer along the lines of "some old bits - some new bits" because thats usually how it goes...

[dom]

Yep, some old bits (eg songs etc), some new bits (anything topical
obviously).

Lazy? Hey, no-one asked Shakespeare to completely rewrite Hamlet six
months later. Our shows got more jokes than Hamlet, too, though most
viewers would say its about as tragic.

We did the show in Adelaide a few months ago, and Perths a possibility
down the track.

[Emperor Fadeaway]

Hamlet didnt need a rewrite, it was great the first time!    (you asked for that one...)

I like how you completely sidestepped the Hobart issue, very politically correct of you...

Seems like most people had lots of good things to say about the last show...so who knows, I might turn up.  Unless its all sold out of course.  

[alleycat]

Umm....its not really a national tour if you dont include Tasmania


And, while its true that in Hobart you would have 2000 heads in an
audience of 1000, what that really means is twice as many laughs
and twice as many brains - in fact youd only have to work HALF
as hard

So, when can we expect to see an extra show slotted in? You only
have to keep going south from Melbourne

[Femme Larrabee]

Just bought my tix for the Fringe also. A night with a political circus. How delightful.

[lennontrotsky]

No offence to the Chaser Guys, they have come up with brilliant satyr over the years...(my apologies to Ovid & the pederasts, Aristophanes and the wasps...) however the Melbourne show is prohibitively expensive...at $33 for a concession price ticket...(even the unemployed Larry Emdur would be over-awed)...the REM guys let me into their show for free...during the Orange Crush era at Festival Hall (where the Beatles played too)...either way, its refreshing to see truth-in-spruiking...good luck guys in Melbourne...it was difficult also to find reference to your show at the Malthouse Theatre website, so by chance I visited the Fringe Festival one...most of their shows cost $15/10...or even less...hell, some are even FREE (gasp)!

[Cleon]

i wud pay 50 bucks to go to the cirque

[Star Fish]

i wud pay 50 bucks to go to the cirque

Good. Good for you.

Once you've done that, can I borrow your time machine?

[.]

Good. Good for you.

Once you've done that, can I borrow your time machine?

bwahahahah. fuck. you're on a bit of a roll starfish 

[Nick 2]

i loved chas's bit with the dating websites

'come speak to me in chat where i will reveal to you that i am a man'

if you're short of material for the war thats a sketch that deserves to be rehashed

[I think I just wasted 2 minutes of my life.]

oh, where has he gone nowadays

[Adi]

Congratulations, that was the biggest necrobump in a long, long time.

I'm so glad it was for such a worthwhile, illuminating post.

[Emperor Fadeaway]

I think it saw the Cirque at the Thebarton Theatre, on the corner of South Rod and Henley Beach Road, Adelaide.

It's just across from Pete's Golf, although I think it's since been taken over by Drummond Golf.

In any case, this shop either is or was owned by Pete Ormsby, father of not-so-renowned golfer Wade Ormsby.

Once, someone stole Wade's golf clubs and tried to get a trade in for them at the shop.

They won the Darwin award that year.  It was awarded to them in jail.