HIGH PONY

Best Original Songs WINNER, Green Room Awards 2023
Best Cabaret WINNER, Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards 2022
Golden Gibbo NOMINEE, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2022
Best Ensemble NOMINEE, Green Room Awards 2023
Best Cabaret NOMINEE, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022
Best Writing NOMINEE, Green Room Awards 2022

What happens when Annie the Orphan, a cannibal (non-derogatory) and the entire Sandringham under 25’s netball team walk into a bar?

This year, Green Room award-winning Mel & Sam are back after their sold-out-pussy-popping tours of ‘No Hat No Play! The Cabaret’ and ‘Shit-Wrecked!’. So sit down, shut up and get ready for them to yank you by your ponytail through a chaotic hour of musical sketch comedy. In the words of Oprah ... YOU get a tension headache! YOU get a tension headache! And YOUUUU get a tension headache!

They’ve got their madonna mics cranked to full volume. They’ve got characters that absolutely do NOT need a solo musical theatre ballad (Angela Anaconda, we’re looking at you - you greyscale bitch) and they’ve got synth lines so dirty it will make you want to take your clothes off and call your ex-girlfriend.

Featuring an all-original soundtrack with songs including ‘Don’t Eat Meat, Eat Your Friends’, ‘Babies Are Cancelled’ and ‘Lesbians Don’t Get The Ick, And That’s Science!’, this is Mel & Sam like you’ve never seen them before ... and there’ll be no fly aways tonight, boys.

This is high concept. High art. High pony.

“Needs to be seen to be believed” ☆☆☆☆☆ - Time Out
“Screamingly funny” ☆☆☆☆☆ - The Advertiser
“A chart-topping parody pop duo in the making” ☆☆☆☆☆ - The Age
“The future of Australian comedy” ☆☆☆☆ - Herald Sun

This event is also part of the Melbourne Fringe Encore program at Geelong Arts Centre with an encore session on Fri 27 Oct, find out more HERE