Crazy Arms - Cabaret Review

What: Crazy Arms When: 27 - 29 June 2019 Where: Loft, Chapel Off Chapel Created by: Damon Smith Performed by: Adam Coad, Trent McKenzie, and Damon Smith Damon Smith, Adam Coad and Trent McKenzie These days the piano (or pianoforte in full) is considered to be something of a classical instrument but Smith knows there is so much more to it then that. In his new show Crazy Arms , playing at Chapel Off Chapel this week, Smith takes the piano out of the opera house and puts it back in the bars and dives where it lost its patina and livened up the world. Beginning very formally, Smith comes out on stage in a three piece suit and bow tie and sits himself down at the baby grand, beginning his tale of this magnificent instrument in 1708 with Mozart. We learn a few things, such as why the instrument was such an important invention (because the harpsichord had no dynamic range - softness and loudness), why the word 'forte' is such an important inclusion, and also how Mozart fo