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Entertainment
Minglar Diamond Cineplex
CINEMA, CONCERTS
(
facebook.com/minglarcinemas
;
5th fl, Diamond Plaza, rear bldg, 33rd St, 78/77; tickets
K1200-3500)
Hidden on the 5th floor of this big shopping centre are a three-screen
cinema, several fast-food eateries and a concert hall with occasional Myanmar rap and
pop gigs.
35 Skateworld
ROLLERSKATING
(35th St, 51/52; per hr K1000, skate/skateboard rental K1000/1500; 7am-10pm)
Local teen-
agers rollerskate to music with a Euro-pop bass line that's powerful enough to blowdry
their hair.
A-nyeint
A-nyeint
is a form of vaudeville folk opera with dance, music, jokes and silly walks. Typ-
ically it's performed on temporary street stages during local community festivals (espe-
cially November and December).
Moustache Brothers
COMEDY
(39th St, 80/81; admission K8000; 8.30pm)
This classic
a-nyeint
group became world
famous in the 1990s when their jokes and rants against the Myanmar government
brought them a string of prison sentences, as well as a name-check from Hugh Grant's
character in the movie
About a Boy
. The show, now entirely in English, doesn't please
everyone but it remains a classic Mandalay must-see.
It takes a series of classical Burmese dance snippets and weaves them together with
endless quips from irrepressable Lu Maw, whose sheer delight in pronouncing English
colloquialisms is often funnier than the jokes he tells. His word-boards add comic effect
while helping listeners to decipher his thick accent. There's plenty of slightly indulgent
self-promotion and many love-hate gags involving Lu Maw's wife - cover star of a
1990s Lonely Planet
Myanmar (Birmania)
guide (Italian edition). A fair few 'KGB' and
corruption jokes still pepper the lighter-hearted wisecracking. (See box on
Click here
)
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