If my mother saw this show she would use just one word to describe the performance. Lovely. Cosgriff was dressed in a lovely dress that matched her lovely voice and piano playing. The show was lovely.
Cosgriff presents a polished show, maintaining her sweet smile and innocent tone throughout. Cosgriff uses her tunes with story-based lyric, along with spoken anecdotes to tell of her life as a struggling performance artist. The audience, more mature than you would see at a regular stand up show during the Comedy Festival, enjoyed the show and responded with polite titters and giggles.
Unfortunately the laughs were no bigger than this for the vast majority of the show, some notable exceptions were Cosgriff’s deconstruction of a song in “The Song Song”, her song that uses Ikea as a metaphor for sex and her demonstration (with audience participation) of a child’s piano lesson.
For mine, the show needed more material of this nature to comfortably fit in a Comedy Festival. It needs more laughs. As it is, as lovely as the performance is, this show is more a cabaret show.
Housed in Chapel off Chapel in Prahan In a festival that is definitely focussed at the Melbourne Town Hall and the CBD it is a risk to cross the Yarra. If you like cabaret “Waitressing…and other things I do well” is worth the journey. The performance is quality entertainment an uplifting and somewhat humourous night out. As the title suggests she does it well. Lovely.
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