Prom 40: BBC Concert Orchestra/Minchin/The Boy with Tape on His Face etc – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIf we can get through this review without provoking Tim Minchin to write a song about it, we'll have achieved some kind of closure. Six summers ago, when a Guardian critic eviscerated the kohl-hogging Aussie Tom Lehrer's Edinburgh debut, Minchin retorted by tearing the review into bits in a tune you can still hear on YouTube.Fittingly then, the first comedy Prom began with the ever-popular ritual of the flaying of the critic: disguised as a Behanesque eunuch, Minchin eme...

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