Politics – the musical!

Politics – the musical is only on at Circa for five days. I saw it last night, and if I could I’d go back for the next for nights to see it again, and see how different it is each night.

The show is put on by the Improvisers, and was introduced as a combination of the two professions great at making things up – improvisers and politics!

The audience get asked to decide key elements of the show. The music themes for the first half were country and Katy Perry and for the second half was opera and rap. Despite these challenging selections, they pulled it off.

The audience were asked what perk they would most like to have and subsidised travel won. Something which annoys them was a needless by-election. Alison Holst was chosen as most loved NZer, and they rolled a dice to decide which party would be featured, and it came up black for NZ First. Party names are not used for legal reasons, so the party colours are used instead.

When asked what would the Black Party most want to not have the public know about, I yelled out “The Spencer Trust”, and that actually ended up being the major focus of the performance.

I won’t describe the performance in detail as it will differ every time. What I will say is that the audience were laughing near non stop, and it was a great show. If you are a political junkie, you will not want to miss this show – go see it this week. One MP was there last night, having got leave.

The show basically had the Black Party wanting to deport all Asians from NZ. They then struck a deal with the secretive Spencer of Spencer Trust, not realising the shadowy trust was a front for another shadowy trust which was a front for another shadowy trust which was a front for the Elitist Brethren (They are elitist as they have 50″ TVs in their homes which they don’t watch).

The Elitist Brethren force the Black Party to campaign not only on deporting Asians, but also on deporting all sinners. Jesus appears a few times also. It is all very funny, and the ability of the cast to not just make the plot up as they go, but to also make songs up on the hoof is superb.

As I said, if you are into politics you should go and see this.