Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision (Sarajevo)

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:

20 May 2008

The Eurovision Song Contest is one of those must-see Saturday evenings on the television calendar. The voting is dubious, the songs are mainly awful and the costumes usually represent a country so stereotypically, that you usually die laughing as you quaff your pizza and pass round your pineapple and cheese sticks.

Thank heavens for Terry Wogan, your sardonic host who guides you through the good, the bad and the downright ugly. But now you can also thank Craig Christie & Andrew Patterson, the writers of the hilarious new spoof musical, Eurobeat for capturing the sheer lunacy of this crazy competition.

As soon as you see Wogan on video introducing the show, you are in, ready to wave your flag, cheer on your assigned country and wallow in the zany spectacle that awaits you. Your hosts for the evening are Boyka (Mel Giedroyc) and Sergei (Gareth Hale). In typical Eurovision style, these two think that they are bigger than the event itself and they...

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Latest User Review

Terry Wogan - 25 October 2008:

Imagine a badly-organised kids party, with ear-splitting whistles and klaxons sending shockwaves through your auditory canals, and that's even before the show has started... This was a real oddity - in places it was as bad as the real Eurovision, in others quite funny, in others quite tedious (Hungary's song was both unfunny and boring). And yet, most of the reviews I've read hail it as some sort of oasis in the desert of contemporary musicals. Well, the fact it's closing two weeks early in the West End suggests it ain't as good as it's cracked up to be... We resisted the temptation to leave at the interval and we're rewarded with a slightly more enjoyable second-half. That's about as much I can say in its defence. Definitely the type of show to watch after 2 or 3 pints of strong (European) lager. But it makes a change from 'The Sound of Music', I suppose. So, don't be under any illusions that you're going to something that will be remembered in years to come - it's an average Eurovision spoof with no narrative: just a mickey-take of something which already does a very good job of parodying itself already. Personally, I find the real Eurovision, along with Terry Wogan's commentary, a lot funnier. And it's a lot cheaper. ...

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