Rainer Hersch's Victor Borge – review

Jermyn Street, LondonWhen Rainer Hersch started performing his mix of comedy and classical music, he found himself repeatedly compared to Victor Borge. He didn't know who Borge was – few now do – so he has made a show to tell us. Borge was a Danish musician who fled the Nazis to become the highest-paid (and funniest, according to the New York Times) entertainer in the world in the 1960s. In Hersch's biographical set, much clowning on the piano and some Two Ronnies-esque, language-bending st...

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