... Magic Bob The Garden Party There was a great amount of enthu siasm among the young fans of Magic Bob who came to see his Millennium Retrospective so much so that they could not wait to leave their seats and jump onto the stage, given half a chance. The ...

... ageing star in characterisation. In the songs, though, especially Fairies in the Bottom of my Garden and Coward's Marvellous Party, she does catch a hint of Lillie's fey madness. Gerald Berkowitz ...

... to Titanic, a Brazilian carnival and an eye- watering Parisienne cancan bigger and better than ever. Hostess Zoe provides party music on record as well as a short but outrageous stand-up interlude, and stars in the all-dancing, all-miming finale. In addition ...

... perhaps a little more surprisingly, Jonah Lomu. Not too much to take offence at here, then, although a Paula Yates millennium party joke could be viewed as below the belt. Hale and Pace orchestrated deserved applause for their support act, magician/comic ...

... Lady Salsa The Garden Party In a mix which never quite reaches the potency of its constituent parts, director and writer Toby Gough has brought a flavour of Cuba to the Fringe. Theatrically, the production revolves round a voyage of discovery made by ...

... giving them less time to prepare or fit audi ence material into an established frame. In one, the audience becomes the third party in a conversation, with Meyers and Benjamin reacting on the spot to shouted responses. Another brings two people out of the ...

... Brown (shows: Parade, Songs for a New World), Adam Guettel (Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins) and Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Marie Christine). Except for Floyd Collins, which had its UK premiere at the Bridewell last year, the rest of the material ...

... Swinging Blue Jeans, appropriately clad in denim, giving their interpretation of three Gene Vincent numbers which made for a party atmos phere. With some crisp lead guitar, they ended their set with the Hal David and Burt Bacharach ballad Don't Make Me Over ...

... inflatables, but all are still hilarious due to skilled patter. In fact, Clifton's brilliant buffoonery creates such a robust party atmosphere that his traditional closing ballad seems somewhat incongruous. Optical Illusion baffles with immaculate personalised ...

... naturally likeable quality. Of the sketches, directed keenly by Fraser Hooper, Nettle- ton's flighty, media pretentious dinner party host inviting Chambers' novelty northerner to her gathering has the most mileage. A Star Wars parody fea turing the Royal Family ...

... Mannequin-type figures arrive in a strange world inhabited by per formers, then find themselves in the middle of the most chaotic party scene imaginable. In a sense these characters reflect the audience's reaction, which varies from shocked bewilderment at the ...

... We'll give everybody name badges, he quips. This could be the beginnings of a new religion. The lucky souls who man aged to party on down at the Club Pleasance Q> Potterrow bash the other day were treated to an unusual sight in the cloakroom. Not wanting ...