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Comedy Music Musicals
Today in London: Monday 1 October 2012
By TW Editorial | Published on Monday 1 October 2012
The good old compact disc is officially 30 years old today (Abba’s ‘Gold’ is the best selling compact disc of all time, if case you wondered), and it’s World Vegetarian Day and the International Day Of Older Persons.
So dig out your discman, avoid meat, give up your bus seat to someone older than yourself, and then try and take in one of these…
TODAY’S COMEDY CHOICES
Paul Merton – Out Of My Head, Vaudeville Theatre, 1-20 Oct (pictured)
Back on stage after a thirteen-year dearth (improv shows excluded, of course), in this fifteen-part finale of a nationwide tour a quizzical Merton will “muse on the mighty behemoth that is his noggin” at the Vaudeville Theatre. The ‘Have I Got News’ and ‘Just A Minute’ regular will be joined by some of his fellow Comedy Store Players – ie Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster – to aid him in his scripted ruminations, a montage of which you can look at below. Info and tickets here.
Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, 1 Oct
Not that the roster for Richard Herring’s now-traditional LST Podcast isn’t normally a thing of great beauty, but tonight’s edition is especially so, since his guests of honour are Rob Delaney and the always marvelous Peter Serafinowicz. So basically, go and watch/listen to it live, because it sounds ace. A SoundCloud preview of the new season is here, with ticket ‘deets’ for all impending podcasts here.
The Three Englishmen – Squares, Canal Café Theatre, 1-2 Oct
The four (that’s four) Englishmen of comic quartet The Three Englishmen translate their Edinburgh Fringe sell-out ‘Squares’ to a two-night stint at the Canal Café. Multiply pace, wit, exuberance by a silly re-imagining of ‘Going To The Chapel’, and you’re assured hilarity on all (four) sides.
TODAY’S MUSIC CHOICES
Nas
’ London Takeover, 1-3 Oct
Rapper Nas promotes the release of his on-point ‘Life Is Good’ LP with a show at Chelsea’s Under The Bridge, this being the first of a three-date London ‘Takeover’ he’ll execute over two further nights at Shoreditch’s Village Underground on 2 Oct and XOYO on 3 Oct. Tickets may still be available via this link.
TODAY’S MUSICAL CHOICES
Loserville, Garrick Theatre, 1 Oct-2 Mar
First unveiled in Bracknell in 2009, ex-Busted boy James Bourne’s retro musical ‘Loserville’ has at last been granted a West End premiere. Drawing inspiration from Bourne’s post-Busted band Son Of Dork’s one and only LP, ‘Welcome To Loserville’, it charts the fortunes of a fictional college class of 1971, in particular compu-nerd Michael Dork and the object of his “sci fi obsessed” affections, beautiful brainbox Holly. It’s no ‘We Will Rock You’, which is no bad thing.
