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Review | Blanc de Blanc will pop your cork at Regal Theatre

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Blanc de Blanc | Regal Theatre | Until Oct 23 | ★ ★ ★ ★ 

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It is common practice for most any formal event to serve champagne to its guests. The iconic drink has long served as a symbol for opulence and wealth, the perfect way to start an elegant evening. Though the power of champagne lays in its effectiveness as a social lubricant, sending the bubbles straight to the head and fizzing into a frenzy of celebration.

Blanc de Blanc infuses the essence and culture of champagne into a spectacular cabaret show, pouring death defying acrobatics, contortion, burlesque, circus, nudity, comedy and a bunch of surprises into one incredible evening of performance.

Monsieur Romeo, a strapping hyper-stereotype of a Frenchman, serves as guide for the evening as the ensemble cast take the audience from pure class to a whole lot of ass, encouraging the audience to make the most of the in-room bar. The ceremony may have a demure opening, as would any black tie affair, but once those corks get popping is when the show really begins.

Blanc de Blanc at Sydney Opera House

As the first performer began writhing her body around a porter’s luggage trolley held a few meters in the air with no safety harness, the tone of the show had been set. As the energy built to a climax, so too did the performances become more explicit and the performers less clothed.

A distressed audience member was surprised by a celebratory sparkler lit in a particularly unconventional way by performer Emma Maye, while Hampus Jansson and Milena Straczynski’s aerial performance left me needing a tall glass of cool water.

Blanc de Blanc

Monsieur Romeo’s attache Spencer was an absolute scene-stealer. Playing the goofball to Romeo’s Casanova during the inter act banter, the contorting harlequin drew massive laughs with one of the most bizarre, intense lip-sync performances that you won’t be seeing on RuPaul’s Best Friend Race. 

Blanc de Blanc is an elegant, debaucherous and entirely enthralling ode to champagne. The whole performance is a beautifully choreographed imagining of glamorous soiree that descends into reckless abandon. The performers, infallible. The vibe, euphoric. A simple concept, exquisitely executed.

Blanc de Blanc is at Subiaco’s Regal Theatre until Sunday October 23rd. Tickets available from BlancShow.com

Leigh Andrew Hill

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