2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Frisky and Mannish School of Pop - 23rd - 26th June
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 8:00AM
School is in and pop is the lesson.
“School was never, ever this much fun… White hot… Slick, polished and accessible feel-good stuff…” - Time Out.
Felicity Fitz-Frisky is a fabulous chanteuse and Hansel Amadeus Mannish, a mighty maestro: perfect credentials for the creators and principals of the School of Pop. Pay attention as every major pop icon from the past 30 years is examined with scholarly wisdom. What you’ll soon learn is that there’s an underlying meaning you never imagined beneath the vacuous pop propaganda of Lily Allen, George Michael, Kate Nash, the Pussycat Dolls and so many more; a meaning quite removed from that accepted by less rigorous (and less twisted) minds. Come with an open mind and leave with honours at the ‘twisted pop cabaret’ in a class of its own.
The rumours are true. They have arrived. No touching.
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Reviews
…I’ve never seen cabaret so unashamedly accessible as this; School of Pop owes as much to tradition as it does to the mash-ups of Girl Talk - and even more to the enormous talents of its performers.
In choosing to subvert those wedding hits we simultaneously love and loathe, these two plug into the closest thing we have to a cultural memory or collective unconscious (just the kind of pretentious reference they’re not likely to make).
Read the full review by Alayna Walsh here.
The genre they work in might seem uninspired on paper. It’s essentially ‘one song to the tune of another’ for 60 minutes. But the artfulness and attitude with which they do it is irresistibly impressive, double-handedly reviving the often moribund genre of musical parody and providing an upliftingly fun night out.
Never sounding a duff note, this is an utter blast from start to all-too-soon finish. If you don’t enjoy Frisky & Mannish, you have no soul.
Read the full review by Steve Bennett here.
Frisky and Mannish School of Pop
Venue: Banquet Room
Dates: 23rd June - 26th June
Times: Wed, Thu, Fri & Sat 8.15pm
Premium: $44.95/Adult: $34.95/ Adult Season Pass: $30.95
Concession: $30.95/Concession Season Pass: $26.95
GreenRoom: $19.95
Booking: call 131-246 or click here.
*For Season Pass bookings (book 4 or more tickets in one transaction for great savings), click here.
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Other shows featured in 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival:
Shoshana Bean: Late Night in the Banquet Room
Pasek and Paul - Along the Way
Robyn Archer - Berlin Between the Wars
Trevor Ashley is Liza (on an E)
Caroline O’Connor - A Musical Life
Donna McKechnie - My Musical Comedy Life
Morphium - A Kabarett by Kim Smith
An Evening with Stephen Schwartz and Friends
Hugh Sheridan - Newly Discovered
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