Review: Excuse Me While I Change by Michelle Cheney

by Michael Meigs
Published on February 11, 2010

Cabaret entertainment requires wit and personality. She hangs those clever songs on a life story and a theme. In the program she quotes Katherine Mansfield.

Michelle Cheney has a lot of fans and friends in this town -- enough to fill up the 85-seat City Theatre in direct competition with the Superbowl. Mind you, the feminine persuasion was visibly in the majority, probably having abandoned their men friends to the Nachos, beer and television as they went off to enjoy Michelle's patter, song, wit and costume changes.Michelle Cheney has often appeared on Austin stages, but she made an early confession: …

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