
Ep 194: Tim Minchin
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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Book of Mormon
I like really intricate musicals, sort of clever and stuff. But at the same time, there's stuff that's really obscure and it's hard to get. I'm very specific about the musicals. Book of Mormon is satire. It manages to be a parody of something and an impeccable version of itselfAt the same time. And then you've got Hamilton, which is just brilliant. Obviously, Lin-Manuel's just extraordinary but his songs could play on radio. The South by Boys gets help from Bobby Lopez, who wrote Frozen. So even though it's sort of a parody of a musical, it's taking the piss out of the idea of what the Americans call it
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