THE MILE HIGH CLUB Tuxedo Cat Until 17 Mar 2012 Review by Aaron MacDonald This is a revue show using the framing device of a plane trip, which probably explains why the show was forty minutes late starting, in a different room and featured a lot of people dying. Framing device – good concept, good actors, good execution. Quality of the actual acts – well, let’s accentuate the positive. Names will be left out to protect the criminally unfunny. Mile High’s line-up is advertised as changing every night, drawing on (presumably) the acts playing at Tuxedo Cat, with a few special guests. Miss Burlesque South Australia 2011 Sapphire Snow and her runner-up Luna Eclipse both dance for us, and they are enormously entertaining. Comedian Sanderson Jones pops in for a (quite surreal) set. Quality ends there, however. There’s a comedian cracking jokes about apps, Paris Hilton and Conor Clapton, all of which would’ve been hilarious in about 2003. That’s still better than the comedian with, by admission, no jokes. There’s a burlesque act centred around Dutch pilgrims and pubic hair (sexy), and someone who flops out a ball and sings about a hand puppet sex aid. Tough to review a revue when the acts change every night. However, to put in one way: when the sound, floor and door crew are responsible for most of the applause in a packed house, it’s probably a good sign you’re in a tailspin. Rating: 2 stars (out of 5)