This is a review of a show that you will never see. You won’t see a 30-minute musical entitled "Spaceballs Explodin"', where robots search for balls and mini hedgehogs, a Mars native runs a trash heap, and an evildoer destroys nearly everyone on the planet Zoobar, where they had a zoo and a bar – what else do you need? You won’t witness a man named Martin get pulled from the audience to the stage, admit that his favourite place is the jungle and mutter something about spaghetti, and find himself offered roses to a chorus of “Martin, you’re sexier than a Spartan”. But you could for a moment imagine a two-woman skit about someone’s most embarrassing moment of splitting her pants at the gym. And then forget about it – you’ll never see that either. No, I and the other 12 people in the room chose the topics of the show, and the six people on stage sang them in their full musical glory. That’s a performer for every two people in the room, folks. But it was cold and rainy that night, so if you see Unplanned Melodies: A Musical Improv Extravaganza at The Factory theatre on a less rainy night, you might find yourself with 20 people in the audience and a less tidy ratio of one performer per 3.333333333-to-infinity. Whatever you see, it will be sung, sometimes on-key and sometimes possible not, it will be funny at times (hopefully) and awkward at others (probably), and if you don’t like the subject matter, it will be your fault, since you and your fellow audience members basically wrote the premise. So if you catch the remaining two instalments of Unplanned Melodies this Friday and Sunday night, let us know if it was any good, since we won’t have seen it.
Unplanned Melodies, The Fuse Box @ The Factory Theatre, Fri 20 Sep at 9:30pm, Sun 22 Sep at 8:30pm, $15
https://fringecomedy.com.au/single-event?show_id=398
