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Performer and producer Nomi Cohen has created a pub quiz musical mix.
Christchurch actress and producer Nomi Cohen has created a quiz with a musical twist.
“It feels like a pub quiz hosted by someone who can’t stop singing,” he said.
Cohen, who currently stars in the musical Jersey Boys at the Court Theater, said he created What proof is this ?! as a way to make traditional pub entertainment more exciting and accessible.
“I love tests, but I hate sports or geography questions because I’m not very good at them,” she said.
“I thought, ‘What if I do a pub quiz for musical theater students and turn it into a performance?’
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The show, which takes place as part of Christchurch’s Bread & Circus Backyard Buskers Festival, features Cohen singing songs with pianist Caelan Thomas through six rounds of different musical genres.
The audience has to guess the artist and song title to win prizes and become champions.
“People have a lot of fun. Avoid that feeling when you walk out of a pub contest and think, ‘I don’t know anything.
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The show features Cohen on vocals and Caelan Thomas on piano.
Cohen has had a year-long roller coaster ride. When the lockdown began in March, he lost a month of theater work and his role in Jersey Boys was put in jeopardy.
But once the lockdown was over, he put on a series of shows in Christchurch with the Blackboard Theater Collective. She is well aware that performing arts workers in other countries were not so lucky.
“At one of our shows, right after the lockdown was lifted, we realized that there was a possibility that we could be one of only four performances going on in the world at that time.
“We are all incredibly blessed to be able to do what we love right now when so many places in the world can’t.”
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Cohen, left in a striped jacket, performs in the Chicago Court Theater production in 2017.
The production of Jersey Boys at the Court Theater it also went ahead, with a sold out run that lasted until the end of January.
“It has been wonderful to see how people have gotten behind that program.
“People are so hungry for a live performance that is really fun. It was an incredible ending to what has been such a damn year. “
He said it was an honor to be a part of this year’s Bread & Circus festival, which has an exclusively Kiwi talent lineup due to Covid-19 border restrictions.
“It feels really great. They have done an amazing job realizing that you have yet to move on. I think going local is a great idea.
“They couldn’t have done the festival this year, but they have persevered.
“I really hope Christchurch comes out and supports the local artists.
