iChestnuts 15

“Singapore’s original live parody show celebrates 15 years of shameless spoofing with a massive mash-up of new sketches and all-time classics with iChestnuts 15!

Join Jonathan Lim, Rodney Oliveiro, Judy Ngo, Dwayne Lau and Judee Tan in a non-stop rollercoaster of shameless irreverence as we celebrate Singapore’s most politically upheaving year since 1965. The merciless pen and keyboard of Jonathan Lim and Bang Wenfu will skewer a whole host of topics from our ballooning population to our multiplicity of Tans, from The Pupil to 2359, from The Walking Dead to Million Dollar Money Drop, from Spring Awakening to everyone’s favourite operatic boyband Il Volo! Come see how nude equestrianism in Equus made us feel Wicked and discover the new Stephen Sondheim musical commissioned by the Elections Department – Into the Booths.

 

And humbly presenting Singapore’s very own MBS-worthy musical – The MerLion King!

 

And whether you’re an old fan or a new aircon, you’ll get to sample some of our Chestnuts classics like the perennial favourite War Diary and the infamous SSO Plays The Best of Nokia Ringtones. Plus the return of your favourite characters, including the Pondan News Asia team and their new iPhone 4 Ass, super-censor Amy Chia, our unstoppable pair of girls who redefine PRC (Permanent Resident – Chinese), and Ris Low’s inimitable sister Ivory Low Ai Kiu introducing her sister’s new personal assistant app - SisRis!”

 

first read abt this on papers and seemed really interesting! was deciding to watch this or to watch kumar’s amazing race, and in e end decided on the latter, cos hav been wanting to catch a kumar’s show hah. could not hav both cos the tickets, though not as expensive as concert tixs, arent that cheap either. the cheapest one needs abt 40plus 50 bucks! so to watch 2 shows means a whopping $200 or so. too much hah.

 

but abt a few days before the show, i saw deal.com.sg selling the tix at abt 40% off! so the cheapest tix can b bought at $20+, which is not too bad ha. great, since this is wad i wld hav wanted to watch too. so i quickly booked 2 tix for the show on 21 jan, sat. it was held at jubilee hall, raffles hotel. a pretty small theatre, so despite us sitting at the last row, it wasnt too bad still.

 

rocking gd time at ichestnuts 15

 

it was a solid 3 hrs (almost) of performance – starting at 8pm and ending at 11pm, with abt 15mins of intermission in betw. super worth it i think! haha. and there were quite a lot of hilarious scenes which made us laugh non-stop. really many funny spoofs and jokes abt everything singaporean. esp entertained by the performance of judee tan (better known as kim bong cha in the noose) and jonathan lim – very talented and natural comedians! to think that we only knew of ichestnuts after 14 yrs, wad a shame hah.

 

we will probably be back next yr, even without the deal.com.sg coupons hah. highly recommended!