MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL - various shows PART 4 / by Cut to the chase

Adam Rozenbachs in Eurodad - Plenty of laughs in this stand-up show which tells some hilarious tales about Adam's trip to Europe with his old man. My own old man travelled to Europe for the first time in his life at the age of 69 last year and even though I wasn't there, this all felt incredibly familiar. His dad actually steals the show with the closer - it's superb. This show is stand-up done well, a good combo of laughs and narrative but doesn't knock it out of the park like a few other shows I've seen.

Joel Creasey in The Drama Captain - this show is hilarious. Tales of a painful relationship break-up and school days as an overbearing drama captain somehow gel nicely to create this super funny show. Went with two friends to this one straight after Adam Rozenbachs and we all agreed that we preferred this one, definitely more laughs. This show got five stars in the Herald Sun & it is definitely great but maybe more like 4-4.5 for me.

Judith Lucy & Denise Scott in The Spiral - I'm a big Judith Lucy fan and I also love Denise Scott so this was a no brainer for me and I wasn't disappointed. It was an unusual format, a combination of random stand-up bits from each woman, some readings from their respective books and some dancing that words cannot describe. I'd pay $47 to see this again just for the dancing. I had tears streaming down my face. Spectacular!