Eurobeat - Winning is Everything

Synopsis

A showbiz send-up like no other, this hilarious, high energy pop extravaganza takes its audience on the most exuberant and animated theatrical ride imaginable. Join the cheering, flag-waving, clapper-clacking crowds as ten countries compete for the golden trophy in a glittering glamour-fest of sequins, satin and shiny white teeth. Text in your vote on your mobile phone - the audience will decide the winner every night.

Our Review:

10 September 2008

Eurobeat, billed as possibly the West End’s first interactive trash hit, is a send up of a cultural phenomenon, the Eurovision Song Contest, which is already out of sight in terms of self-parody. We’ve been through the irony tunnel and back several times on this score.

Yet this spectacularly silly and enjoyable musical by Eurofan Aussies Craig Christie and Andrew Patterson – first seen on the Edinburgh Festival fringe last year - manages to combine cheap laughs and cheap music in a joyous theatrical combustion. And because the audience votes for the winner on mobile telephones, we don’t even have the pleasure of hearing deathless phrases like “Good evening, Lichtenstein, can we have your votes please?” or “Here are the votes of the Paris jury: Norveige, nul points.”

We do have a brief appearance from Terry Wogan, though, who pops up on a giant screen to promise us a good evening: “I can say that because I’m not there.” By then we ...

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Latest User Review

David Gray - 20 September 2008:

We had a great time! Helped by a liberal lunch and a fine wine, we took in a 5pm Saturday show and enjoyed ourselves hugely. If you party on Eurovision night each Spring, this show will certainly entertain you....

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