March 2010 @ The Butterfly Club (Melbourne)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 2:55AM 
is located at
204 Bank Street
South Melbourne 3205
Victoria, Australia
Phone enquiries: 03 9690 2000
Email: info@thebutterflyclub.com
MONDAY
MARCH 22 @ 8.00pm
St Martins presents FOUR ON THE FLOOR
Under the guidance of WES SNELLING and BENN BENNETT (creators of Black Bag) four emerging artists present the beginnings of grand cabaret ideas. An evening of bite sized performance from a group that may take the cabaret cake in the near future.
$15
TUESDAY
March 2, 9, 16, 23, @ 6.15pm
Come along and sing as loudly or softly as you like – there are no solos, no microphones and no commitment to come every week.
$10
March 9 @ 8.00pm
Catherine Deveny and Daniel Burt: Melbourne Comedy Festival preview shows
Show 1: half hour each
Catherine Deveny and Daniel Burt WARM EACH OTHER UP
The only Australian to write for The Late Show with David Letterman, Daniel Burt, joins with serial pest, professional pain in the arse, cultural terrorist, colorful racing identity and godbotherer botherer Catherine Deveny. All to warm up their material for their shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
$20
March 16 @ 8.30pm
Open a ‘Secret Door’ with Asher Treleaven. Back from the Edinburgh Fringe and a cliché-ridden sabbatical in Paris this year the gangly comic savant invites you to take a surreal journey into sex and manliness. Barry Award Nominee 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
$15 / $10
March 23,30 @ 8.00pm
Melbourne Comedy Festival: Anne Edmonds in SING US A SONG YOU’RE THE PIANO, ANNE
Anne Edmonds (Tough at the Top, ABC online) has been watching you … out the front of your house … at night … with binoculars. If you’re lucky you’ll end up as one of her characters. If not, you’ll end up in a skin suit under her house.
$15
WEDNESDAY
March 3, 10, 17, 24, @ 6.15pm
Come along and sing as loudly or softly as you like – there are no solos, no microphones and no commitment to come every week.
$10
March 3 @ 8.00pm
Why do women seem to get rid of their husbands more easily than their shoes? Are men really destined to act stupid, when they are in love? Like a sharp Swiss army knife, Swiss singer/songwriter David Morell gets to the heart, of what love is all about.
$22 / $17
March 17 @ 8.30pm
Open a ‘Secret Door’ with Asher Treleaven. Back from the Edinburgh Fringe and a cliché-ridden sabbatical in Paris this year the gangly comic savant invites you to take a surreal journey into sex and manliness. Barry Award Nominee 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
$15 / $10
March 24,31 @ 8:00pm
Melbourne Comedy Festival: Anne Edmonds in SING US A SONG YOU’RE THE PIANO, ANNE
Anne Edmonds (Tough at the Top, ABC online) has been watching you … out the front of your house … at night … with binoculars. If you’re lucky you’ll end up as one of her characters. If not, you’ll end up in a skin suit under her house.
$22 / $17
March 9 @ 8.00pm
Catherine Deveny and Daniel Burt: Melbourne Comedy Festival preview shows
Show 1: half hour each
Catherine Deveny and Daniel Burt WARM EACH OTHER UP
The only Australian to write for The Late Show with David Letterman, Daniel Burt, joins with serial pest, professional pain in the arse, cultural terrorist, colorful racing identity and godbotherer botherer Catherine Deveny. All to warm up their material for their shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
$20
March 4 @ 7.00pm
Dave Anderson and the Wine Merchants
Emotive storytelling, raw haunting vocals, intimate tales of love, loss and despair.
In his newly adopted home city of Melbourne, Anderson has adopted a new band, the Wine Merchants, who like a good drop, perfectly complimenting his offering. An evening with the ghosts of emotions past. Expect to be stirred.
All tickets $15
March 4,5,6 @ 9.00pm and March 7 @ 8.00pm
Sheridan Harbridge in Mrs.Bang – a series of seductions in 55 minutes
Mrs.Bang, the red-lipped mistress with a voice of pearls and a suitcase of troubles, has stumbled into Melbourne for her acclaimed big-band spectacular. A little soused and a little sumptuous, Mrs.Bang is dragging her audience kicking and screaming through a banquet of romance, jazz and catastrophe in this award winning and startling black comedy. Performed by Sheridan Harbridge, winner of the 2008 Sydney Cabaret Showcase.
$22 / $17
March 5,6 @ 7.00pm, March 7 @ 6.00pm
Melissa Western in ELLA MEETS MARILYN
In the mid 50s Ella Fitzgerald became the first African-American to perform at Hollywood’s Mocambo, after Marilyn Monroe sweet talked the owner – and promised to take a front row table every night. He agreed. Marilyn sat front and centre. Ella sang. History was made.
Join sultry songstress Melissa Western and accompanist Sue Porter for a night of tribute to two of her biggest muses.
$22 / $17
March 5,6 @ 10.30pm
Martin Martini, Darcy McNulty, Jules Pascoe, Leili Mander: THE SMALLEST BAND IN THE WORLD
The smallest band in the world happened by accident. I was drunk with Jules and Darcy at the piano days before Michael Jackson passed. I started a stride bass and mumbled. There was a giant of a girl there none of us knew who mumbled back. I asked if she could sing, she replied ‘not well’. A sound came from that throat reminiscent of Billy Holiday. I saw birds fly out of Darcy’s saxophone, Jules held it all together. We wrote 10 originals that night. Never has writing music been so simple and such a pleasure to make, Martin Martini.
$25
March 11 @ 9.00pm
Catherine Deveny and Daniel Burt: Melbourne Comedy Festival preview shows
Show 1: half hour each
Catherine Deveny and Daniel Burt WARM EACH OTHER UP
The only Australian to write for The Late Show with David Letterman, Daniel Burt, joins with serial pest, professional pain in the arse, cultural terrorist, colorful racing identity and godbotherer botherer Catherine Deveny. All to warm up their material for their shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
$20
March 11,12,13 @ 9.00pm, March 14 @ 6.00pm
Karin Muiznieks in FIRST AGAINST THE WALL
What’s wrong with society? Everything! It’s time we started a brand spankin’ new one. We’ve just gotta overthrow a couple of governments, liberate some people and solve a few pressing global concerns like war, famine, greed and Charlie Sheen.
$27/22
March 12 ,13 @ 9:00pm
Catherine Deveny and Daniel Burt: Melbourne Comedy Festival preview shows
Show 2: one hour Daniel Burt
YES MAN SYNDROME
born an accident and apologising ever since
$15
March 12 ,13 @ 10:30pm
Show 3: one hour Catherine Deveny, $15
GOD IS BULLSHIT
That’s the Good News
Catherine Deveny promises a death-defying ride through her spiritual journey from wannabe Catholic altar girl to atheist eye candy.
$15
March 14@ 8.00pm
Benn Bennett and Chas Forrest’s HOUSE MUSIC
Join Melbourne based duo Benn Bennett and Chas Forrest for an evening of Dark Cabaret, Folk and Electro music.
$15
March 18,19,20, 25,26,27 @ 7.00pm, March 21,28 @ 6.00pm
Melbourne Comedy Festival: IN SEARCH OF ATLANTIS *Award Winner ‘09 Melb Fringe
In a time since past, two courageous explorers begin a dangerous journey to discover the lost city of Atlantis. Armed with nothing but a guitar and mandolin, these brave young men traverse into the unknown to find the sunken city. A musical comedy of epic proportions, these men will take you on a journey the likes of which have never been seen.
$22 / $17
March 18 @ 9.00pm
Join Kiwi Diva, Penny Ashton, for a booty-ful night of belly laughs in a Cabaret that’s the love child of Eminem, Cosmopolitan Magazine and the Wiggles. HOT PINK will be a raunchy good time by one of NZ’s top comedy exports with songs, stand-up and a bra that fits her head.
$25 / $20
March 19,20 @ 10.30pm
The Candy Topps in: SING HAPPY – REVAMPED
Meet Stella, Kitty & Fifi: luscious, chic, and outrageously sexy. These three ladies of song will make you forget your troubles and are guaranteed to excite the optimist within (and if their voices don’t then their décolletage most certainly will!). Including songs by Beyonce, Judy Garland, Pink, and Lady GaGa, this unmissable night of entertainment will get your feet stomping and your heart thumping.
$22 / $17
March 21 @ 9.30pm
Brigitte Baden-Rennie: PARTNERS IN CRIME
Gail has been married 4 times and hopes that number five will be the one. Trish ran away from home at 15 and now works the streets. Her boyfriend Roy is her business manager. Sue is a sales assistant by day and a dominatrix by night and Rachel loves that Ben is married with three children because she doesn’t have to wash his socks. We all want it. We strive not to lose it and we’re empty without it.
What have you done for love?
$27/22
March 25, 26, 27 @ 9.00pm, March 28 @ 8.00pm
Melbourne Comedy Festival: Anne Edmonds in SING US A SONG YOU’RE THE PIANO, ANNE
Anne Edmonds (Tough at the Top, ABC online) has been watching you … out the front of your house … at night … with binoculars. If you’re lucky you’ll end up as one of her characters. If not, you’ll end up in a skin suit under her house.
$22 / $17
March 25, 26, 27 @ 10.30pm
WHEN THE SEX IS GONE Best Newcomer Award, 2009 Melbourne Fringe
A hilarious portrait of eroticism as told by a broken-hearted hermaphrodite. Charlie Martini & Alastair Estaire, a stripper and a boxer, inhabiting the one body, muse over a life lived in the dark belly of desire.
$22 / $18
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