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The burchmores real world inefficient for mate selection gay author Douglas Coupland
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Star Online , April 16, 2015
IT took some convincing to get my boyfriend to come with me on a guided tour of Melbourne’s Arts Centre with Rhonda Butchmore, the alter ego of comedian Thomas Jaspers and a loving tribute to stage legend Rhonda Burchmore.
He’s terrified of both drag queens and audience interaction both were sure to be staples of the tour but his love of the Arts Centre (this would be his third guided tour) and his original-Rhonda fandom got us over the line.
When we assembled at the box office to start the tour, Butchmore’s assistant (co-host) Kyle Minall gave us name tags with alliterative epithets. I got Brutal Ben , but the best went to the tour’s unexpected guest, Rhonda Burchmore appropriately, The Real Rhonda .
Over the course of the hour-long tour, Butchmore and Minall fired off round after round of Arts Centre trivia and snarky one-liners about the C-list of Australian stage and television. Patti Newton, Marina Prior and, of course, Burchmore herself burchmores copped a skewering throughout the sharp, funny and even genuinely informative tour.
Despite his fear of audience interaction proving well founded (and most of it more brutal than my name tag) my boyfriend was in his element. Jokes about Australian theatre and TV personalities are very much his oeuvre (the man has Bert Newton’s biography on his bedside table).
It’s niche, but Jaspers has created something quite special for his 2015 Midsumma show. If you have any love for Melbourne arts trivia, obscure Australian celebrities or Matthew Mitcham’s underwear burchmores (trust me) then check it out.
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