Singapore’s one and only live parody show is back…
Starring Hossan Leong and Jonathan Lim
music arranged and performed by Bang Wenfu
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Venue |
Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel
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Ticketing |
Prices exclude $2 SISTIC Fee.
Tickets are available from SISTIC’s website
(http://www.sistic.com.sg), mobile
ticketing (wap.sistic.com.sg), hotline (+65 6348 555) and outlets islandwide. |
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Discounts |
Available at SISTIC authorised agents only:
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Press |
9 Nov 2004
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Chestnuts is back and,
mamma mia, what a show we have in store!
Introducing the new killer pairing of Jonathan Lim (Chestnuts creator and veteran of 8 years) and Singapore Boy Hossan Leong, fresh from his own one-man show!
This 8th installment of Singapore's
only LIVE parody show promises more hard-hitting spoofs and merciless stabs at
all things popular and artsy! Get ready for non-stop comedy sketches and parody
songs as this madcap duo poke fun at our favorite movies, plays, TV shows and
current events! The action is fast-paced, the costume changes countless and the
humor unstoppable!
This year, Chestnuts returns to its 1996 birthplace Jubilee Hall with all-new
wacky spoofs of 2004's hottest films like Kill
Bill 2, Peter Pan, Troy, 2046, The Grudge, House of Flying Daggers, Dawn of the Dead, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Alien Vs Predator, Exorcist:
The Beginning, The Stepford Wives
and Catwoman...
PLUS parodies of hit shows like Mamma
Mia!, Singapore Idol, Friends, Extreme Makeover, Top or
Bottom, Private Parts, Aladdin, The Vagina Monologues and Wills & Mergers...
PLUS a dig at those ridiculous cinema pre-show ads...
PLUS TheatreWorks Does the Olympics...
PLUS a parody of the Life! Theatre Awards and a tribute to the (still)
pink theatre scene...
ALSO featuring a different special guest each night joining us for a hilarious
live chat-show about topical issues such as studio mergers, blackouts and
celebrity pregnancies (and the conspiracy that links them all...)!
http://www.nowstagethis.com/events-OtherChestnuts.htm
- Ron
Banks, The West Australian, 1998
“Lim and Yeo have so much fun and
their work is so polished that you can’t help enjoying it… Lim has an
extraordinarily beautiful face capable of registering the subtlest of emotions,
and a chimerical ability to change character (and he also looks hilariously
genuine in a dress).”
- Grant Cottrell, Xpress (
“Clever as the writing is, the
real charm of Chestnuts lies in the frenetic energy displayed by its performers…
a remarkable chemistry between them…”
-
Jeremy Samuel, The Arts Magazine, Mar-Apr 2002
" The quality of the show was just overwhelming. Conceived to crank out
the most number of laughs from a (preferably) local Singaporean audience in one
and a half-hours, it certainly did its job… Mad men they clearly were… the show
shines ever so brightly. I can honestly say that I haven't had this funny a
night out in a long time… Regretfully, I can only ask myself why I didn't find
out about it earlier. Oh well…"
- Adi Soon, The
Flying Inkpot, 2000
"The
show is very funny and I enjoyed it very much. I'm definitely looking forward
to next year's show."
- Glen Goei
on 2003's “Chestnuts Unloaded: The Curse of the Black Pearl Bubble Tea”
“Chestnuts
is definitely roasting on an open fire - and it has been getting hotter with
each year."
- Zhou Junli, The New Paper, Dec 2003