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Carnahan as Channel Nine.<\/p>\nIf you think too much cricket is not enough \u2026 we have just the show for you. Cricket The Musical makes its return this year, shadowing the English Cricket team\u2019s tour this summer.<\/p>\n
Starting in Perth on November 19 Denis Carnahan\u2019s one-man show will tour to all the cricket capitals \u2013 Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. \u00a0Carnahan is a singer, songwriter and satirist who is also responsible for that other cultural event \u2013 Rugby League The Musical. <\/p>\n
Cricket The Musical is a shape-shifting beast that will change from show to show, depending on what happens on the various pitches.<\/p>\n
Carnahan as Channel Nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 2025-2026 cricket season is destined to be filled with controversy and pantomime, from the World Test Championship to the West Indies series, followed by the always hilarious touring English cricketers,\u201d Carnahan says.<\/p>\n
He lampoons the English as a matter of national pride and explores things such as \u201cthe slapstick of Bazball\u201d. (For the uninitiated Bazball is an aggressive, fearless style of Test cricket championed by the England team, coached by Kiwi Brendon McCullum,\u00a0 whose nickname is \u201cBaz\u201d. It prioritises taking the initiative through high-risk, high-reward play, aiming to score as quickly as possible to force a result, and is characterised by bold decision-making in all aspects of the game.)<\/p>\n
\u201cAdd to that the drama of last season\u2019s Indian shoulder charges and send offs and the burlesque of the Big Bash, and you have more comic narratives than any music theatre librettist could ever dream of!\u201d continues Carnahan.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I can\u2019t think of a better time to tour Cricket The Musical\u00a0and bring people together around their shared love of the game than while the energy is high and the crowds are buzzing around the country this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Carnahan as MCC.<\/p>\n
As Australia\u2019s hardest-working musical sports satirist Carnahan will use his unique spin to review all the standout moments of this summer\u2019s cricket, along with the game\u2019s history of treachery, villainy, facial hair and illegal abrasives.<\/p>\n
For almost two decades he has been producing songs and parodies about the many colourful characters and controversies Australian sport produces. They go to air weekly on the ABC and have previously featured on The Footy Show, Fox Sports, Triple M and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
His songs about Stuart Broad\u2019s sportsmanship, MCC selection policies, Mitchell Johnson\u2019s moustache and other sports have had millions of hits on YouTube.<\/p>\n
With a nod towards the English pantomime tradition, Carnahan is happy for you to boo the villains and cheer the heroes as Cricket The Musical\u00a0brings songs to life on stage, with videos, sketches and caricatures celebrating the many controversies of this summer\u2019s matches.<\/p>\n
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Among his characters is one known as Channel Nine, a fine historical figure of cricket manhood \u2013 Carnahan wearing stubbies, a World Series Cricket t-shirt and sporting a shaggy \u201970s hairstyle and a moustache that is a nod to all the great facial hair of cricket. Mitchell Johnson\u2019s mo was particularly memorable, Carnahan says.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the songs in the show laments the fact that Travis Head is the only one who has a mo nowadays,\u201d Carnahan says.<\/p>\n
His Channel Nine character laments the disparate state of cricket broadcasting while his character The MCC gives us a potted history of cricket.<\/p>\n
Carnahan grew up playing the game and his son continues the family tradition. Together they have experienced the highs and lows of a game invented by the English and mastered by the Aussies. He expects some of the touring Barmy Army to attend his shows, which follow the Test Matches between the two historical rivals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll be fun having them here,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is meant to be a bit of a pantomime and they will get that.\u201d<\/p>\n
English audience members should be warned that the Poms will be lampooned along the way. But hey, that\u2019s cricket.<\/p>\n
Cricket The Musical plays The Old Museum, Bowen Hills, Brisbane, December 2 and the Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide,\u00a0 December 14.<\/p>\n