David Rubie, harsh on the poor old Renee there.

Yah. I didn’t really mean to impugn her looks, more that she’s happy to appear very different in different movies. That photo of Warnie frocked up is disturbing on many levels.

“Nah, that was me, I just borrowed Shane’s phone, honest!”

“Look, I know it’s blurry but anyone who knows me will tell you that’s my cock”

etc…

Which is how Art works, after all.

I’m trying to remember whether Joe the cameraman gets a guernsey in this show anywhere. Surely he must.

“Can’t bowl, can’t throw”

/pedantry

Could you make a broadway number out of “Hadlee’s a wanker”?

“Joey in the House” sounds bloody awful. I think I’d like to see it just to wince. I suspect a few Warnie fans might show up to Perfect’s show. Time will tell.

A cricket musical would be tops. You know, Shane’s story is not just a Greek tragecy, no it’s much more important than that, it’s an Aussie tragedy, and he’d be a perfect main character in such a show.

David Rubie, harsh on the poor old Renee there. Cripes, she might not be as beautiful as the lovely Simone but she scrubs up okay. Besides she was wonderful in Chicago and Miss Potter and Nurse Betty and nearly everything she’s been in (I’ll leave out that film with Tom Cruise because I hate his guts).

Is the sun the moon?
Are they the same?

or something very close to that. Nabs, I could swear ‘Can’t Bat, Can’t Bowl, Can’t Field’ actually is one of the songs.

You told me I was the one
The only one who got your head undone
And for a while I believed the line that you spun

But I’ve been looking at you
Looking closely at the things you do
I didn’t see it the way you wanted me to

How how howzat
You messed about
I caught you out
Howzat
Now that I found where you’re at
It’s goodbye
Well howzat
It’s goodbye

And why not using Warnie as a main character? We’re talking about someone blessed with a prodigious talent becoming steadily undone by the license he’s thinks granted to him by his talent. This is the kinda classic hubris shit that has powered many good stories of stage, screen and print.

The songs just write themselves too.

“Warne Free”
“Can’t Bat, Can’t Bowl, Can’t Field”
“(I Declare) He’ll Follow On”
“Shane Warne, Superstar”
“Heart with Blonde Tips”
“Bowld Maidn Ovr”
“Sticky Wicket”
“Here Comes The Sun (And The Daily Mirror)”
“Wag The Tail”
“Stumps” (The big ballad)
“Wisden Wisdom”
“Dancing With The Stars”
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond

No bets, his strike rate will still be above average.

Glad you enjoyed the show Darlene! Not sure, if I could stomach a whole nite devoted to SK Warne’s career high and low lights, having just finished digesting them for real. And hard to satirise someone who is pretty darn busy satirising himself – his turns on Kath & Kim for eg. But I’ll take yours and Dr Cat’s word for it being v. funny.

And it doesn’t sound like the sort of punters who buy Boonie dolls, are going to be buying tickets in their droves – which is a relief, otherwise, you could pencil in lamer endeavours such as ‘Joey in the House’ – set in two Newcastle discos, starring the ekkie dealer and the boys from the Sydney Footy Show.

Or ‘ Such is Life in Rehab’ – set in every Perth nightclub, with a chorus of ice dealers, a brace of Underbelly rejects and the Weasels leadership group… “I’m not going to rehab, until I win a flag, flag flag.”.

Or maybe just a huge rock opera based on the lot of ‘em titled “I’ve let down my family, my team-mates and the fans.”

Shane’s in a frock, who would’ve thought a sportsman would ever do that

Blokes in frocks == teh funnay is probably as old as theatre itself (even The Bard was partial to it). Along with monkeys and farting that is. Besides which, the various “footy shows” make 90% of their laughs from boofy blokes frocking up. However, it does convince me that Zellweger ought to get the part

If Helen is still about, should performers in general/satirists not tackle topics like The Warne because of the way “bogans” might respond to it?

Frankly, I think this show will be Perfect’s biggie because I think all sorts of people will go see it – unlike Keating? The Musical, for example, which was seen mostly by Labor hacks from what I could tell. Surely an artist isn’t responsible for the way her or his audience responds to their art.

Another picture of Shane (crikey, Shane’s in a frock, who would’ve thought a sportsman would ever do that – perhaps Shane’s engaging in a little subverting of heteronormativity; some gender f**king and all that. Shane Warne as queer performance artist).

Ha ha ha, Warnie and Renee. Yep, take a look at the show, Fine. This was only the work in progress, so the real deal will be even better.

Anyway, I think Eddie Perfect is fantastic and I look forward to seeing this one.