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Revived and updated, presumably because of Helen Mirren's turn as the Queen as much as Tony Blair's abdication of his throne, master impressionist David Benson's 1998 satire on celebrity reaction to the death of Princess Diana arrives at the Tron tonight. Having played at the Edinburgh Fringe, London's West End and the Sydney Opera House, Benson alone portrays a starry cast plucked from the royal family, Elton John, George Michael, Toms Cruise and Hanks, the "tragic but buoyant" Michael Barrymore and even the Queen Mother.
This second revival of the popular Fringe draw's second show - after his smash debut Think no Evil of Us: My Life With Kenneth Williams - it was originally penned as a snub to those who assumed his follow-up effort would be on Frankie Howerd, "as if I intended to spend the rest of my life impersonating dead, camp comedians". Naturally, he later went on to "titter ye not" in Be Frank: Frankie Howerd and the Secret of Happiness.
Few solo acts can fill a stage quite as completely as Benson, and if it's the impressions that draw the audiences, it's the bittersweet quality of the writing that keeps them coming back.
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