Cab Fest Pre Launch Info

The official launch of the 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival will be held on April 14. But here’s the information we’ve gathered about the program ahead of time.

Some of this has been announced earlier by the Adelaide Festival Centre. Some of it is rumour, other information has been collected from sources online.

Frisky and Mannish, reviewed for Cabaret Confessional in March, will make their Adelaide premiere in the Festival Centre Banquet Room June 23-26.

School is in session, and pop is on the syllabus. By the time class is dismissed, you’ll know your Kate Bush from your Kate Nash, your D-I-S-C-O from your D-I-V-O-R-C-E and your Eternal Flame from your That’s Not My Name.

Frisky & Mannish will twist and shout you through fifty years of pop with astonishing musical skill and a death-defying lack of restraint. Following a critically acclaimed, packed-house run at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe, Frisky and Mannish’s School of Pop comes to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, yay!

Composer of Wicked, Steven Schwartz will be a guest of the Cabaret Festival. Schwartz was slated to be part of at least one previous festival program but that fell through. Schwartz will be the latest in a line of Broadway composers who have been featured since the festival’s inception in 2001. Previous artists include Jason Robert Brown, Richard Maltby & David Shire and Andrew Lippa.

While Schwartz is in Australia he will be conducting music theatre workshops with the composers “Edges”, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. We will find out at Wednesday night’s launch whether they’ll be included in the Adelaide lineup.

The Adelaide Festival Centre announced in late 2009 that the festival would again open with a Cabaret Gala. Last year’s opening night Gala was a sellout and featured performers such as headliner Bernadette Peters.

Australian performer John Waters will present a night of French cabaret entitled “Brel”.

Waters has been inspired by Jacques Brel’s songbook since he was in his teens, leading him to perform these incredible songs in late night shows in Sydney’s Kings Cross in the early 1970s. This eventually evolved into the critically acclaimed tribute show Cafe Brel in 1999.

Now in this brand new incarnation, simply titled BREL, Waters will create and assume the character again, telling stories rich in dimensions that will arouse and entice you.

It has been rumoured a number of times and discussed on this blog. We will know soon enough if Debbie Reynolds will return to Adelaide with her 10 piece band that is really a trio with backing tracks and her voice that proves that she never was a remarkable singer.

Sydney based performer Queenie Van de Zandt will present a Cabaret Master Class.

After a very succussful Anthony Newley show last year, look out for a return appearance from home grown triple threat Hugh Sheridan.

Check back on Thursday to see what the 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival holds in store!

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[Anon]

Also expect to see Donna McKechnie, Lanie Lane presents Betty Baby & the Blues of a Bygone Era, and Nouvelle Vague.

[Anon]

Oh, and Pasek and Paul will be in Adelaide, http://pasekandpaul.blogspot.com/2009/09/adelaide-cabaret-festival-in-australia.html