SalfordOnline.com Rating: 5 out of 5
If it was possible to award more than 5 out of 5, I’d have made an exception for this brilliantly funny show.
The Grumpy Old Women trio of Jenny Eclair, Susie Blake and Kate Robbins made this night one of the best evening’s entertainment in a very long time.
Supporting his sister in the audience was Phoenix Nights actor Ted Robbins, who looked so much better after his recent heart attack scare while on stage at the MEN arena for the March tour of that show.
After a brief warning for upcoming explicit language (which was well-deserved), it was non-stop laughter from a packed Lowry theatre.
The opening lines set us off to start with: “Right ladies, mobile phones off, hearing aids up to full volume and love balls running on silent please,”!
Planet Grumpy Old Women had arrived.
They hit the nail on the head when they described the audience as looking like “an outbreak of sequins in a women’s prison” and followed up with a scathingly truthful look at the vagaries of getting on a bit: from sitting in the doctor’s surgery with Zumba-inlflicted injuries; to making up a rhyme for your phone number so you don’t forget it.
Whoever wrote the script for this show is a genius.
When Jenny Eclair started a piece on Botox I thought the woman sitting next to me was going to choke she was laughing so much.
“I’m not having snake venom injected into my face for no man – I’d rather suck off Simon Cowell…”
Everything these GOWs took aim at was so close to the truth on everyday life, it was hysterical.
I went in with full make up, but cried laughing so much I had panda eyes by the end.
Should you ever have the opportunitiy to see these ladies any tiume grab it with both hands: it was simply one of the funniest shows that I have been to in a very long time indeed.
