Perth’s queen of kitsch, Lucinda Panties, artist, MC, classically trained musician, brings us the third iteration of her Super Funtimes Singalong Jamboree. The first of these won a FRINGE WORLD cabaret award, though truly categorising these shows would baffle even the Golden Globes.

Backing Lucinda up this year, we have a suite of leopard printed Super Funtime Friends – Malaika Moon and Cece Desist on vocals/bad jokes, Amanda Lynn and Emma Christina on strings. Audience kazoos, ukuleles, tubas, anything most welcome – if you don’t have your own, the performers may very well provide.

We get some musical training, from call and response, to stagger breathing, to “put the big end in your mouth, and breathe all the exhaustion of the last two years into it”. Also when best to wail like Christina on Lady Marmalade, though that’s more a confessional on watching Baz Luhrmann movies too young.

Medleys covering sad girls and hot summers show off Lucinda and cast’s skill at layering multiple songs in and out of each other, in harmony (something the audience tries but doesn’t quite get right). “We don’t do jokes” we are told, but throwing an arts education aside as a bourgeois pursuit, immediately after referencing mental health, yeah, that’s pretty funny.

And in between the fun, almost throwaway music and comedy, we have readings from ‘The Book of Being A Depressed Bitch”, the sustainability of plastic, “we’ve all been going through a time” doing our best to avoid burnout, and how wonderful still having the arts is. Especially here in Perth.

This performance is very much of its time and place. It doesn’t go in hard on the sadness, but neither does it flinch away. It’s there, and we know it’s there.

Overall, Lucinda’s Jamboree is for anyone who loves good music, who loves bad music, who loves kazoos. Song, laughter, foot-stomping, and a plethora of smiles. The audience were up for it, very responsive, over-emoting to the poppiest of 90s pap, while the artists on stage are having a ball.