ISIHAC tour review from the Birmingham Mail
20/09/2007 00:00 0ST

Posted by lisa

The following review appeared in the Sept 19th edition of the Birmingham Mail.  Please note that it contains spoilers.

I'm sorry, it was a treat; REVIEWS I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T A CLUE
Birmingham Hippodrome

by: TONY COLLINS

YOU knew you were in for something different when kazoos were left on every armrest to guarantee audience participation.

The Hippodrome stage was transformed into a recording studio for the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz.

Billed as the best bits from the show's history and chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton, comedians Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer battled it out in a series of bizarre rounds.

Where else would you get Tim singing Girlfriend in a Coma by The Smiths to the tune of Tiptoe Through the Tulips, or Graham playing Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest - in the style of Darth Vader?

Other entertaining rounds ranged from bad chat-up lines and incorrect sound effects to hilarious mimes during sound charades and the reason for the kazoos eventually became clear when the audience was called upon to play a version of karaoke - with the panel having to guess the tunes.

The show will be broadcast on Radio 4 at a later date.

VERDICT: *****