Extra Ordinary | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

Lucy Gransbury is ordinary but it’s the extra – especially her song parodies – that makes this show delicious.

Extra Ordinary.

Extra Ordinary

Cabaret

Rating: ****

The Jade

Until March 13

Lucy Gransbury is ordinary, mediocre. We all are, according to her, somewhere on the bell curve with the rest of humanity.

The extra is what makes this show delicious. She’s energetic and her natural warmth spills into every corner of the room.

She’s comically candid about her life as a performer and mother. While many women in the room can relate to the pregnancy and childbirth stuff, the men have their consciousness raised.

Do you know what a veggie is? How about a moose knuckle? She has one man in the audience keeping an eye out, just in case.

Her song parodies, a tribute to her love for Julie Andrews, are great and Gransbury’s final number is a love song to South Australia. We get to sing along.

Deborah Brennan at the keyboard has a show of her own, The Parting Glass, coming soon. The Jade may have dropped its Monkey but a show like this makes it a great place to spend an evening.