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Had me some Tim Minchin at the Wilbur tonight, with my wife and mum. We had terrible seats — jammed against the wall with a colored spot in our eyes, Tim's face half-obscured by the lid of his grand piano, and a drunken sideburns-lout shouting behind us — but a wonderful time. I told ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adfamiliares there were three songs I hoped he would play (Rock 'N' Roll Nerd, If I Didn't Have You, and Confessions), and he hit all three, plus a few tunes I'd never heard. ("Some comedians do their new material in a small club, but that's 'cos they don't understand statistics.") Here's the full setlist:
( Cut for non-Minchin-fans! )
It was particularly nice to be able to holdadfamiliares's hand during If I Didn't Have You, since it so nicely encapsulates our no-nonsense yet deeply romantic attitude toward our relationship.1 Tim had an appropriate-color spot during Prejudice, forgot the lyrics during Drowned, and filled the interstitial spaces with self-conscious standup, banter, and reflection. He seemed a bit taken aback by the sheer American boisterousness of the audience2 — we did not, as a group, fully grasp the concept of "rhetorical question" — but he gamely soldiered on, and very sweetly went into a mild panic halfway through Prejudice when he realized we call them "bangs," not "fringe." ("You do call tampons 'tampons' in America, right?")
A fine show, and despite the mildly awkward rowdiness it is heartwarming to see that Boston is full of very enthusiastic Minchin geeks.
1 Storm, particularly the bit in which his wife restrains his incipient ranting by simply widening her eyes, nicely encapsulates my wife's response to my desire to confront the sideburns-drunk — "A matrimonial warning / not worth ignoring."
2 When he gave a call-out to the upper balcony, and they responded with Fenway-style whooping, he said, "Americans are very proud of their geography. I didn't know it was that specific."
adfamiliares there were three songs I hoped he would play (Rock 'N' Roll Nerd, If I Didn't Have You, and Confessions), and he hit all three, plus a few tunes I'd never heard. ("Some comedians do their new material in a small club, but that's 'cos they don't understand statistics.") Here's the full setlist:( Cut for non-Minchin-fans! )
It was particularly nice to be able to hold
adfamiliares's hand during If I Didn't Have You, since it so nicely encapsulates our no-nonsense yet deeply romantic attitude toward our relationship.1 Tim had an appropriate-color spot during Prejudice, forgot the lyrics during Drowned, and filled the interstitial spaces with self-conscious standup, banter, and reflection. He seemed a bit taken aback by the sheer American boisterousness of the audience2 — we did not, as a group, fully grasp the concept of "rhetorical question" — but he gamely soldiered on, and very sweetly went into a mild panic halfway through Prejudice when he realized we call them "bangs," not "fringe." ("You do call tampons 'tampons' in America, right?")A fine show, and despite the mildly awkward rowdiness it is heartwarming to see that Boston is full of very enthusiastic Minchin geeks.
1 Storm, particularly the bit in which his wife restrains his incipient ranting by simply widening her eyes, nicely encapsulates my wife's response to my desire to confront the sideburns-drunk — "A matrimonial warning / not worth ignoring."
2 When he gave a call-out to the upper balcony, and they responded with Fenway-style whooping, he said, "Americans are very proud of their geography. I didn't know it was that specific."
