(Photo - Photox - Ben Appleton)
When entering the Hub stage for Dave Collins' cabaret, one's struck by the dominant couch onstage. But it's a sign of how relaxed Collins is on the stage that he can put his feet up and still draw an audience to him in a mix of personal stories and diva classics, from the second he launches into "When you're good to Mama" til his departure from the stage, including a couple of duets with friends Kara Taylor, Louiza Blomfield and Amelia Anderson-Nickson. The structure, an autobiography from primary school to now, ties together songs about love, lust, work and vibing with friends, and Collins gives it plenty of personality and his own touch of charm-with-a-slight-side-of-ewwww.
Collins has always been a fun performer to watch, with a massive voice that rattles the walls of the ACT Hub stage, and a personality that matches. And this is distilled Dave in a one-hour format that gives him chances for plenty of big notes in a song catalogue that largely draws on music theatre and divas (from Chicago to Shrek to Jeckyl and Hyde to Judy Garland to Cry-Baby) and with plenty of laughs to go with the singing.
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