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After a string of amazing sell-out heats for the first round, things are hotting up now with the Quarter-Finals - come and watch the UK's best emerging musical comedians battle it out for the 2010 Musical Comedy Awards!
Now in it's second year, the Musical Comedy Awards is a unique competition that celebrates the emerging musical comedy community in the UK and promotes the venerable art form of comedy songwriting as an independent genre.
The UK's top forty emerging musical comedians have been selected by Time Out Comedy editor Tim Arthur from Avin a Larf's dedicated musical comedy website www.musicalcomedy.co.uk to compete in a series of live heats - come and watch the pick of the crop do battle for the crown of the 2010 Musical Comedy Awards!
Both the Quarter-Finals will showcase eleven musical comedy acts that have progressed through the first round alongside one established circuit act. As you will soon see from the talent on display, many of the emerging artists are firmly on their way to being established too. Here are the dates for Quarter-Finals:
QF 1, Feb 13th:
Hannah Brackenbury
Antony Elvin
Barnaby Griffin
Tom McDonnell
Carly Smallman
Jay Foreman
Strong & Wrong
Luke Meredith
Kevin Davidson
Brigitte Aphrodite
Rob Carter
Plus MR B the GENTLEMAN RHYMER - "Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer's 'chap-hop' ("reconnecting rap with the Queen's English") was note-perfect" - The Telegraph
QF 2, Feb 27th
*Here are some short clips of the eleven artists scheduled for the second Quarter-Final on Feb 27th.
Horse & Louis - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/391/E-Queen-of-the-Night
Vikki Stone - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/416/X-Factor-Winning-Single -Spoof
Amateur Transplants - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/408/Lowering-the-tone-two-s nippets
Rob Broderick - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/413/Abandoman-present-an-im provised-hip-hop-musical
Henry the Groover (Steve Aruni) - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/372/Shouldnt-really-have-to -ask
Sooz Kempner - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/314/Sooz-Kempners-parody-of -Beautiful-Christina-Aguilera
Max and Ivan - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/294/The-Credit-Crunk
MC Cashback - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/293/mc-cashback
Matt Tiller - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/87/John-Sergeant-Quits-Stri ctly
Rebecca Hamway - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/368/Mary-Poppins-Credit-Cru nch
The Amazing Tom and Ed Brothers - http://www.musicalcomedy.co.uk/video/404/Deep-in-the-Bible
PLUS SARAH ADAMS - "Infectiously catchy songs. The wit is as dry as sawdust...really hits the mark." CHORTLE