Comedy - The Beautiful Losers

The Age

Saturday October 14, 2006

LILY BRAGGE

WHAT The Beautiful Losers

WHERE The Famous Spiegeltent, Victorian Arts Centre forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, city

WHEN Tomorrow at 7pm

TICKETS $30/$25. Phone: 1300 136 166 or www.ticketmaster.com.au

The supremely talented trio that makes up The Beautiful Losers - Mark Jones, Adam Murphy and Karlis Zaid - do not just cross the line; they pole-vault right over it. Part satire, part elegy, this award-winning, bloodstained freak show continues to evolve. A loving, often tasteless and acerbic paean to life's two-bit ne'er-do-wells, lovers, liars, cheats and thieves, it is both appalling and appealing. With tunes by artists as diverse as Lou Reed, Randy Newman, Kevin Bloody Wilson and the Eels, the characters' take on every song has a leery edge of pornography about it. -- LILY BRAGGE

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