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| These Things Take Wine, Tash York |
I love wine, so there’s no reason to believe I wouldn’t also
love Tash York’s cabaret show, These
Things Take Wine.
Cabaret shows are often themed for fun and songs about wine
could have easily devolved into a messy drinking session followed by regret but
this show isn’t just about drinking to excess.
It starts out that way, though, with Tash crawling out from
behind the couch – sad that her 5:30pm audience can’t already be drunk with
her. She says she looks sexier if the audience has been drinking; right now,
she looks like a Tina Turner impersonator, which is the reason she left
Brisbane.
Most of the songs in the show are re-written pop numbers but
Tash nails the re-writes with Let’s Talk
About Wine, Baby and I had a shot
(bang, bang) and Wine After Wine.
There’s a great song about trying to fit in with The Ladies Who Lunch,
with whom she’s been set up on a friendship date.
My favourite song was about Tash falling for Musical Theatre Boys, while she was studying.
“They are so much shorter than me / They love Cole Porter more than me”. They
wear shorts and cheer for Schwartz and maybe that’s what led to her drinking…
and being put off when men have tried to serenade her ever since.
There’s also a lovely ode later in the show to meeting her
father and them bonding over a bottle of wine. It’s not all about wine-vado,
though sometimes it is.
Tash has a powerhouse musical theatre voice, a lot of charm
in telling stories of drunken excess and is much funnier than drunk people think
they are. These Things Take Wine is
full-bodied, rich and the show leaves a lovely aftertaste. You might even want
to go back for more!
Tash York continues wine-ing all this week at the ButterflyClub until April 23. You should take her some chicken nuggets!
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