Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director Kate Ceberano has upped the ante at this year’s Festival with not one, not two, not even three leading ladies making their Adelaide Cabaret Festival debut but four divas will reign supreme.
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Mar 19
ADELAIDE FRINGE 2013 – All Washed Up! – 4K
By Anthony Nguyen In a fantastic opening musical number displaying the evident musically trained voices, the self-proclaimed ‘bad boys of musical theatre’ make a splash into the Adelaide Fringe with an uplifting musical comedy show titled All Washed Up! The comedy duo consists of: Andrew, a tall, happy-go-lucky and often narcissistic man, and his …
Mar 19
ADELAIDE FRINGE 2013 – Smart Casual: The Older Brother (aka The Curse of Doug) – 3.5K
By Anthony Nguyen Donned in their adult-sized school uniforms, droll Roger David and his more musically talented half-brother Fletcher Jones opened in an awkward yet weirdly entertaining entrance to their new Adelaide Fringe show Smart Casual: The Older Brother (a.k.a. The Curse of Doug). The comedy duo reminisce with a hilarious recount on the …
Mar 13
FRINGE: Cabaret – Geraldine Quinn: You’re the Voice – La Boheme – 5K
As an audience member, it’s not often that you begin a show by standing to attention and singing the National Anthem. Perhaps it should be done more frequently; it certainly seemed to get everyone into the mood for You’re the Voice.Geraldine Quinn is not afraid to show her love of the anthem in all its …
Mar 11
FRINGE: Cabaret – Marry Me a Little – La Boheme – 3K
Rita (Merrilyn Greer), Edie (Leah Potter) and Betty (Tahlia Ries) are The Bailey Dolls, a musical trio who perform in the club of Frank Hartley (Buddy Dawson). With the news that a friend has received a marriage proposal, Betty, who has been waiting on her beau to pop the question for years, has reached the …
Mar 09
FRINGE – Sister Mary Lucy – La Boheme – 4K
By Ben Nielsen After a successful season at the 2012 Cabaret Fringe Festival, it’s unsurprising that Lucy Russell returns with her show Sister Mary Lucy. With an onstage shrine and a well selected jukebox of songs, Russell confesses that her one desire is to become a nun. The tale is genuinely hilarious. Unlike many emerging …
Mar 07
ADELAIDE FRINGE 2013 – Lady Sings It Better – 4.5K
By Anthony Nguyen Donning their pink tutus, snazzy bowties and sassy feminist attitudes, the all-female all-singing all-harmonizing cast of Lady Sings It Better graces the stage in their sold-out opening show of the 2013 Adelaide Fringe. With a performing cast consisting of five talented ladies: Maeve Marsden, Libby Wood, Belinda Crawford, Monique Potter, and Anna …
Mar 06
FRINGE 2013 – Piano Chicks – The Promethean – 4K
By Alana Massalsky Becky Blake is a piano chick. A seasoned performer well versed in the ups and downs of making a living in the entertainment industry, but evidently still very much in love with the life. In Piano Chicks Becky candidly shares personal and professional stories, mingled with songs by famous piano chicks influential …
Mar 06
FRINGE 2013 – Tumble Circus: This is what we do for a living – The Birdcage – 4K
Up a flight of inconspicuous stairs lit with electric candles, down a seemingly endless prison-beige hallway resides The Birdcage, the most beautiful condemned cinema you will ever see. Radiohead’s Creep fills the cavernous space. Pastel coloured metal folding chairs line the shallow stepped stairs, the shrieking scrapes as they are pulled out and shuffled around …
Mar 04
FRINGE 2013 – The Big Band Burlesque Show – Nexus Cabaret – 4K
by Alana Massalsky If you’re a woman you’ll lust after the costumes, if you’re a man you’ll just lust. This is burlesque. Everything you’d expect of the art form was present and correct: curvaceous confident women, booty and booby shimmying, a good deal of corsets and sequins, tassels and feathers, and choreography designed to tease …
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