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Review: MissCast, FRINGE WORLD Festival

MissCast is a beautifully constructed, perfectly delivered show by two seasoned performers who are doin’ their thang and bloody loving it.

22 Jan 2019

Victoria Wyatt

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Performing Arts

Vincent Hooper and Dixie Johnstone in MissCast.

Fringe shows are a gamble. Sometimes they are very very good, and sometimes they are very very not so good.

MissCast is a little show in a medium sized tent with a big big impact, which sits at the very very good end of the richter scale.

Dixie Johstone (Channel 7’s All Together Now, Addams Family & Legally Blonde) and Vinnie Hooper (Avenue Q, Rocky Horror & Heathers) are musical theatre heavyweights, the likes of which you don’t often stumble across at Fringe shows, and this alone takes the show up a notch from your average fringe fair, as straight out of the box, their voices have you hooked.

MissCast sees Johnstone, Hooper, mini Dixie, mini Vinnie and Mason – the seemingly tough one-man band who surprisingly sings like an angel – caper their way through a medley of movie and musical favourites that will have you smiling and singing along from the get-go.

The premise is simple, each sings songs from roles in which they would NEVER be cast – or would they? Johnstone’s curled lip and perfectly quaffed oversized wig brings Danny Zuko alive in a way even Travolta couldn’t have imagined, and Hooper’s rendition of Barbara Streisand’s ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’ will leave you in no doubt that Hooper could play The Funny Girl in the next remake.

The whole show is a hoot, and I for one am not going to spoil the surprise of exactly which Aussie polis are roasted in a well crafted version of ‘Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better’, but what I can tell you is that you will remember it well into the night and will regale your mates with lines you can remember the following day.

This is a beautifully constructed, perfectly delivered show by two seasoned performers who are doin’ their thang and bloody loving it. This my friends, is what Fringe is all about.

You will smile, you will sing and you will most definitely be hunting the Fringe 2020 program for their return.

A little spicy but not so spicy that you can’t take your mum!

Rating: 4 ½ stars ★★★★☆
MissCast

FRINGE WORLD 2019
Presented by:
Zealous Productions
Cast:
Vincent Hooper
Dixie Johnstone
Directed by:
Nicole Stinton

22-26 January 2019
The Woodside Pleasure Garden, Perth

Victoria Wyatt

About the Author

Victoria Wyatt has worked across the music/festival/theatre scenes in New York, London and Rome for the last 15 years. She is currently back in her hometown of Perth and can be found writing for Artshub, designing sets and interactive displays for children's/community events and stage/production managing around town. Victoria has worked across the music/festival/theatre scenes in New York, London and Rome for the last 15 years. She is currently back in her hometown of Perth and can be found writing for Artshub, designing sets and interactive displays for children's/community events and stage/production managing around town. Victoria has worked across the music/festival/theatre scenes in New York, London and Rome for the last 15 years. She is currently back in her hometown of Perth and can be found writing for Artshub, designing sets and interactive displays for children's/community events and stage/production managing around town. Victoria has worked across the music/festival/theatre scenes in New York, London and Rome for the last 15 years. She is currently back in her hometown of Perth and can be found writing for Artshub, designing sets and interactive displays for children's/community events and stage/production managing around town. Victoria has worked across the music/festival/theatre scenes in New York, London and Rome for the last 15 years. She is currently back in her hometown of Perth and can be found writing for Artshub, designing sets and interactive displays for children's/community events and stage/production managing around town. Victoria has worked across the music/festival/theatre scenes in New York, London and Rome for the last 15 years. She is currently back in her hometown of Perth and can be found writing for Artshub, designing sets and interactive displays for children's/community events and stage/production managing around town. Victoria has worked across the music/festival/theatre scenes in New York, London and Rome for the last 15 years. She is currently back in her hometown of Perth and can be found writing for Artshub, designing sets and interactive displays for children's/community events and stage/production managing around town.