Threeway

‘Threeway’ written by playwright Belinda Dunbar, is a saucy musical having its World Premiere at DownStairs at the Maj, His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth. The season runs from Tuesday 24^th June to Saturday 5^th July. Midweek shows at 7.30 pm, weekends at the later time of 8.30 pm

           Colin (Shai Yammanee) and Lyndal (Clare Moore) have been married for three years, but Lyndal’s dream of a diamond ring and a baby seem to be waning. Colin just wants a cold beer and to watch footy, oh yes, and a little bit on the side. When he finds that his mistress (Sharon Wisniewski) and his wife are old friends, Colin is in big strife.

Produced in a similar style to Dunbar’s very successful ‘Bad girls’, this light-hearted operetta has a soundtrack of 17 tunes, half established songs from the theatre and the remaining are pleasant, original compositions with fun libretto, written by musical director Tim Cunniffe. James Brookes directed this cabaret musical.

The excellent trio of Tim Cunniffe, Haans Drieberg and Luke Fowler were well balanced and gave the show a bounce. The singers were magnificent, these WAAPA graduates, had beautiful voices and superb delivery. BUT, the sound balance. Here we have singers trained to fill an auditorium of 2,000 wearing headset mics (which were over bassed and so boomy) in an intimate venue for 120. Why did they need headsets? Answer, because the musicians volumes were set at a ridiculously high level. All singers proved that they were talented enough to sing powerfully and remain in tune at perfect pitch, so please dump the disturbing headsets.

Well that is another Christmas card that will not be receiving this year.