Much Revue About Nothing

 

The Wharf Revue sold out season after season for the Sydney Theatre Company and now forty timeless sketches are available for performance for first time. 

Over 20 years Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott have plundered all forms of theatrical entertainment from broad slapstick to high drama, from farce to Shakespeare, Gilbert and Sullivan to Rodgers and Hammerstein, from the theatre of the absurd to film noir, from grand opera to rap.

A rich variety of monologues, duologues, sketches, and satirical songs are published and can be selected to suit your cast's talents and audience's taste.

 

 

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1. OPENING NUMBER

Debt Defying Acts! (2011) - Large cast song

2. KOALA SONG

The Official Visitors’ Guide to Australia (2000) - Monologue

3. PENSIONER SKETCH

The Year of Living Comfortably (2002) - Duologue

4. THE RETIREMENT VILLAGE PEOPLE

The Official Visitors’ Guide to Australia (2000) - Large cast song

5. THE GUN SHOP SKETCH

Whoops! (2013) - Duologue

6. THE TREASURER’S SONG

Déjà Revue (2018) - Solo song

7. THE FRUGALS

Beware of the Dogma (2007) - Solo or large cast song

8. ANH’S BRUSH WITH FAME

The Patriotic Rag (2017) - Duologue

9. THE JOB SEEKERS

Good Night and Good Luck (2020) - Quartet song

10. THE HISTORY OF FEDERATION IN CAKES

The Official Visitors’ Guide to Australia (2000) - Duologue & easy song

11. BORIS’ SONG

Unredacted (2019) - Solo song

12. UNDER MILK WOOD

Not Quite out of the Woods (2010) - Large cast sketch

13. BEES

Never staged - Duologue

14. THE WORRIED MAN’S SONG

Beware of the Dogma (2007) - Solo song

15. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Debt Defying Acts! (2011) - Four-person sketch & song with optional chorus

16. THE BRINGABEERALONG EXPERIENCE

The Official Visitors’ Guide to Australia (2000) - Five-person (or more) sketch

17. THE PLASTIC WRAP

Unredacted (2019) - Five-person (or more) sketch

18. THE WHALERS

Not Quite out of the Woods (2010) - Four-person (or more) song

19. THE FINALE

Debt Defying Acts! (2011) - Large cast song

 

ALTERNATIVE SKETCH LIST AND SOURCE

20. OPENING NUMBER

Back to Bite You (2016) - Large cast song

21. THE PAULINE DOCTRINE

Good Night and Good Luck (2020) - Monologue

22. KEATING AND GILLARD

Open For Business (2014) - Duologue and duet

23. IVANKA TRUMP

The Patriotic Rag (2017) - Solo song

24. THE TALE OF EDDIE OBEID

Whoops! (2013) - Large cast song

25. ALAN (JAMES) JOYCE

Celebrating 15 Years (2015) - Monologue

26. THE BALLAD OF BARNABY’S CHOICE

Déjà Revue (2018) - Solo song

27. YOU CAN’T STOP THE KIM

The Patriotic Rag (2017) - Solo song

28. MUMMA RUSSIA

Good Night and Good Luck (2020) - Monologue or easy song

29. QUEEN ELIZABETH I

The Patriotic Rag (2017) - Monologue

30. VLAD THE IMPALER

The Patriotic Rag (2017) - Monologue

31. LOUIS XVI

The Patriotic Rag (2017) - Monologue

32. CARRY ON UP THE BREXIT

Back to Bite You (2016) - Five-person sketch

33. FAWLTY TOWERS

Good Night and Good Luck (2020) - Five-person sketch

34. THE GOON SHOW

Celebrating 15 Years (2015) - Up to nine-person sketch

35. THE POLICE INTERVIEW

Waiting for Garnaut (2008) - Duologue

36. THE RANDWICK RACE CALL

Beware of the Dogma (2007) - Monologue

37. REFUGEE SHANTIES

Red Wharf: Beyond The Rings of Satire (2011) - Large cast song

38. THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA

Red Wharf: Beyond The Rings of Satire (2011) - Large cast song

39. MAJOR DICK TINGLE

Revue Sans Frontieres (2006) - Monologue

40. CLOSING NUMBER

 

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Production Costs

12.5% of Box Office.