From Fringe Benefits

With an eclectic story-filled monologue, Dickins presents himself in front of the audience at the Arcade Lane space with a warts-and-all tale of running to where he belongs. Over the course of the night, and assisted by his pianist Jennifer Kingwell, he sings and talks us through his journey from an unhappy place through to all the places he felt he might find what he was looking for.

Dickens has a great voice for this type of show. Clear, smooth and conveying much meaning, he adds personal touches to a range of diverse songs, from the classic “Cheek to Cheek” by Irving Berlin through to an amusing pop version of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”. 

Read the rest of the review by Kosta Jaric here.

From Talk Fringe 

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From Glam Adelaide 

Tommy Bradson has written and performs a dark, alluring comical cabaret that explores the sleazy, erotic lives of an hermaphrodite living a dual life as stripper Charlie Martini and boxer Alastair Astaire.

Accompanied by quirky keyboardist and vocalist Boris (the exceptional Jacqueline Morton who also composed the songs), they have created a fascinating adults-only comedy that pushes more than a few boundaries.

Bradson is simply superb. He has an extraordinary voice, is an exceptional actor, and looks good as both a babe and a bruiser. He responds confidently with adlibs to his environment and audience, and manages to be both engaging and dangerous at the same time.

Read the rest of the review by Rod Lewis here.

From Adelaide Theatre Guide

“When the Sex is Gone” is styled “a theatrical portrait of eroticism”. What is fails to add is that it is one of the most confronting, absorbing, original, very funny, very wicked, very clever, very dark, sexual seventy minutes you are ever likely to spend anywhere! Here read “The Spare Room, Garden of Unearthly Delights”. 

Tommy Bradson has written this and his performance as a hermaphroditic Drag Queen never misses a beat or an opportunity. This boy is always in control and the audience laughs, hoots, gasps and applauds throughout the performance, including this reviewer who confesses he’s not a fan of ubiquitous drag. 

Read the rest of the review by Richard Flynn here.

From Adelaide Now

With a backup pianist-come-singer and a practically packed house, Tommy Bradson blew his audience away with his versatile vocals, original forlorn songs and story-telling eyes.

Read the rest of the review by Hannah Silverman here.

From Talk Fringe 

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*Price guide: A=Adult C=Concession FB=Fringe Benefits Members, G=Group (6 people or more) CH=Child (12 and under) Family=2 adults and 2 children FP=Full Price MS=Meal and Show

A TIVOLI LOVELIE 

Venue: Metropolitan Hotel @ 3.00pm

A $15/C $12/CH $7/FB $14/G $14

BERLIN CABARET 

Venue:  The Promethean @ 9.00pm

A $30/C $25

BURLESQUE BEAUTIES 

Venue: La Boheme (Upstairs) @ 7.30pm

A $20/C $15

LAST OF THE RED HOT MAMAS

Venue: La Boheme @ 5.30pm

A$25/C $20/FB $18/G $20

LISETTE & HER FAUX MANOUCHES 

Venue: Maxim’s Wine Bar @ 2.00pm

FP $18/C $14

THE LOVE AND THE VOICE 

Venue: Adelaide Town Hall (Meeting Hall) @ 3.00pm

A $15/C $10

THREE OLD FARTS AND A COUPLE OF TARTS (IN CABARET) 

Venue: Glenelg Bowling Club @ 2.00pm

All tickets $17

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The wait is over… Barb Jungr’s latest offering ‘The Men I Love – The New American Songbook is officially out and is getting rave reviews.  That’s hardly surprising, considering the quality of her music, and I recommend anyone who hasn’t experienced her music to order a copy.

Reviews from her successful Café Carlyle season in New York City are coming soon!

From BBC

Jungr’s powers of interpretation make such an eclectic selection into a vital, coherent album. She sounds as if she has lived every line of every song. These are not just cover versions. Instead, Jungr and Wallace have taken the songs apart to find out how they work, before remodeling them.

Read the rest of the review by John Eyles here.

From The Independent

After the tightly-focused spotlight on the late Nina Simone’s repertoire that was Just Like A Woman, Barb Jungr returns to her wide-ranging selections from The Great American Songbook with The Men I Love…Perhaps the most successful, and revolutionary, interpretation is of Talking Heads’ “Once In A Lifetime”, on which piano, cello, shakuhachi and subtle percussion create an almost oriental mystery reflected in the inquisitive, airy innocence of Jungr’s delivery. (****)

Read the rest of the review by Andy Gill here.

From Girl Singers

Turning pop music into classics has been a staple of Ms. Jungr’s work for some time, but never quite as far as she does on this disc.  Ms. Jungr – a master craftsman at interpreting lyrics – puts these songs into another space entirely. The style is powerful and raw, especially on the ballads.  And it’s surprising to me which tracks have been turned into ballads.  You haven’t heard “I’m A Believer” like this before.  Ever… Very highly recommended.

Read the rest of the review by Doug Boynton here.

From Propose Music

Jungr’s powers of understand have such an heterogeneous preference in to a vital, awake album. She sounds as if she has lived each line of each song. These have been not only cover versions. Instead, Jungr and Wallace have taken the songs detached to find out how they work, prior to remodeling them.

Read the rest of the review by Dan Berglund here.

From Midwest Record

One of the familiar but different kind of records in the vein of Nouvelle Vague, Jungr is clearly that important kind of uptown vocalist you have to pay attention to as she’s got the touch to turn anything into art, in a good way. A new high water mark for sitting down music.

Read the rest of the review by Chris Spector here.

To download the album or order the CD, click here.

Barb Jungr’s official website: www.barbjungr.co.uk

Naim Label’s official website: www.naimlabel.com

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The shortlist for the Adelaide Fringe 2010 Awards was announced this week.

The six shows selected for the cabaret category are:

DIE ROTEN PUNKTE - ROCK!

IN SEARCH OF ATLANTIS

NIKKI AITKEN PRESENTS…

THE WAU WAU SISTERS’ LAST SUPPER

WHEN THE SEX IS GONE

WHERE WAS I?

NIKKI AITKEN PRESENTS… was also nominated for Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE:development Award.

The winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday evening, 14th of March.

To see the rest of the nominees in other categories, click here.

Adelaide Fringe home page: www.adelaidefringe.com.au

Who do you think will win? What other cabaret shows do you think should have been nominated? Which act was your favourite?  Tell us in the comment section below.

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If you enjoyed this post you might also like these previous entries:

Adelaide Fringe 2010 cabaret reviews

Review: War Tunes Hit The Right Notes

Nikki Aitken Presents…Reviews from the web

Review: Lady Carol Reigns Supreme Again

Review: Red Hot And Sizzling Mama Brings The House Down

Sex And Songs. What More Could You Ask For?

Adelaide Fringe 2010 cabaret interviews

Hans - The Warwick Capper Of Cabaret

Women - is your orgasm all in HIS mind?

Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except for Melissa, Mark and Libby)

Chillie Nights

Ali McGregor on James Morrison and Jazz Cigarettes

Life Upon the Wicked Stage

Coles Girls Exposed

Isabel Hertaeg - Dangerous Dinner Party Guest

Shakespeare on Love 

Lady Carol - All Alone, Together

Geraldine Turner is a true veteran of Australian show business. Her career spans stage, television, film and music, proving she can thrive in any area of the entertainment industry. 

Geraldine has starred in countless musicals, operas and plays including A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Chicago, The Witches of Eastwick, HMS Pinafore, The Vagina Monologues and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Don’t miss Australia’s leading lady of musical theatre as she mesmerizes her audience in this intimate, one-night only cabaret.

She is joined by the fabulous Bev Kennedy, plus special guests Mike Snell, Natalie Gamsu and Marika Aubrey. 

Time: 7:00pm  doors/8:30 show every Sunday

Show only $25/Show and dinner $40 (including a glass of wine)

Booking: 1300 GET TIX (438 849) or click here.

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From Your Management International

Sheridan returns to the Sydney Cabaret stage in the return season of the explosive Mrs Bang, the cabaret delicacy of unexpected disaster, unwanted audience participation and unmanageable big hats!

A little soused , Mrs Bang is dragging her audience kicking and screaming through a banquet of off-key jazz and catastrophe in this award winning and startling black comedy.

Rising cabaret star Sheridan Harbridge has been touring ‘Seductions’ since its win by unanimous vote at The 2008 Annual Cabaret Showcase. David Campbell says of Harbridge, ‘…new and twisted, Sheridan has shown us something we haven’t seen before…’ it’s sell-out season at The 2009 Adelaide Cabaret Festival led to celebrated runs at Trevor Ashleys Showqueen and The Civic Theatre in Auckland.

A series of Seductions in 55 minutes returns in 2010 for its Melbourne season after its recent Melbourne debut at The Butterfly Club.

NIDA acting graduate, Harbridge has appeared in My Fair Lady, Fiddler On The Roof, Cabaret and 3penny Opera, and won Most Outstanding Performance for her Lady Macbeth at the GATS Festival, Beijing. She has appeared across mediums in music, theatre and radio.

“Rising talent Sheridan Harbridge…(is a) new star in the making.’ Cabarethotline.com

The El Rocco Room (Formerly Bar Me)
154 Brougham St (Cnr William St), Kings Cross

Saturday 13, 20, 27 March
All Shows 9:00pm
Tickets: $20 Advance Sales / $25 At The Door

1300 GET TIX (438 849) or click here.

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*Price guide: A=Adult C=Concession FB=Fringe Benefits Members, G=Group (6 people or more) CH=Child (12 and under) Family=2 adults and 2 children FP=Full Price MS=Meal and Show

A SMOKE, A PILL AND THE SIX O’ CLOCK SWILL 

Venue: Cafe Komodo @ 8.00pm

A $22/C $20/FB $20

A TIVOLI LOVELIE 

Venue: Metropolitan Hotel @ 6.30pm

A $18/C $12/CH $7/FB $14/G $14

A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH WITH BILLY ‘T’ & THE FREE SPIRITS

Venue: Rob Roy Hotel @ 8.00pm

All tickets $35

AMAZED - NICHOLAS TWEEDY IS THE REALITY BENDER

Venue: The Cavern Club 7.00pm

All tickets $28.50

‘AN AWKWARD SEDUCTION’

Venue: Nexus Cabaret @ 9.00pm

A $17/C $14/FB $13.50/G $15

BURLESQUE BEAUTIES

Venue: La Boheme (Upstairs) @ 7.30pm

A $20/C $15

CIRQUE DE GYMNASTIQUE

Venue: Marion Leisure and Fitness Centre @ 2.00pm, 5.00pm, 8.00pm

A$20/C $12/CH $12/FB 16 (FB price for 8.00pm show only)

COLE’S GIRLS

Venue: Star Theatre (Theatre Two) @ 5.00pm, 7.30pm

A $22.50/C $18.00/FB $20.00

DRAGS ALOUD AT THE MOVIES

Venue: The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Le Cascadeur @ 10.00pm

A $22/C $18

LADY CAROL

Venue: The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Bosco Theatre @ 10.15pm

A$32/C $26

MISBEHAVING AT MIDNIGHT

Venue: The Garden of Unearthly Delights - The Spiegeltent @ 11.59pm

A $28/C $25

MISS K STARS IN HOT SPELL

Venue: Mylor Hall @ 8pm

All tickets $20

PRE-COITAL - THE SCIENCE OF DATING

Venue: RiAus (The Royal Institution of Australia) @ 7.30pm

A $15/C $9

SHAKESPEARE ON LOVE

Venue: Picnic at Connies @ 7.30pm, 9.30pm

FP $25/C $20/FB $20/G $17.50

THE BABY BOOMER TRIBUTE SHOW

Venue: Quality Hotel Tiffins on the Park @ 7.00pm

G $50/MS $60

THE BALD EAGLES: LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE

Venue: Queens Arms Hotel @ 8.30pm

A $20/C $17

THE HANS SEDUCTION

Venue: The Mars Bar @ 7.30pm

A$25/G $20

THE LOVE AND THE VOICE

Venue: Adelaide Town Hall (Meeting Hall) @ 3.00pm

A $15/C $10

THE WAU WAU SISTERS’ LAST SUPPER

Venue: The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Umbrella Revolution @ 11.59pm

A $25/C $20/FB $20/G $20

THREE OLD FARTS AND A COUPLE OF TARTS (IN CABARET)

Venue: Glenelg Bowling Club @ 7.45pm

All tickets $17

WAR NOTES

Venue: The Garden of Unearthly Delights - The Spiegeltent @ 5.30pm

A $24/C $20

WHEN THE SEX IS GONE

Venue: The Garden of Unearthly Delights - The Spare Room @ 9.15pm

A $22/C $18

WHERE WAS I?

Venue: Arcade Lane - Regent Two @ 11.00pm

A $22/C $17/FB $15

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From Your Management International

Marika, herself a fine Hunter redhead, explores women of colour…the colour RED!

Meet ladies both fictional and true to life – all of the auburn persuasion. Including tales of some of the world’s most famous redheads, Marika enlightens us as to an assortment of facts, myths and commonalities surrounding our iconic fiery females – and herself. Rita Hayworth, Gwen Verdon, Ethel Merman and many more, REDHEAD is a celebration of flame haired dames and the music that ignited their careers. After a successful return season of the show CAUTION: Aggressive Birds that saw her named Cabaret Performer of the Year 2009 (AussieTheatre.com) Marika Aubrey delivers a knock-out performance that promises to delight and captivate audiences…All over again!

Weird name. Big voice. Red hair… Come and enjoy a fine hunter red!

“…an absolute firecracker on stage. She has a powerful voice and an excellent stage presence that makes her one of the most exciting performers to come onto the cabaret scene in some time” AussieTheatre.com 

Musical Director With Geoffrey Castles

The El Rocco Room (Formerly Bar Me) 
154 Brougham St (Cnr William St), Kings Cross 
Friday March 12 + 19 only @ 9.00pm
Tickets: $20 Advance Sales / $25 At The Door

BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT:

1300 GET TIX (438 849) or click here.

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Acclaimed performer Natalie Gamsu with collaborator Jonathan Cooper return to the Sydney cabaret stage in a show that is not to be missed…

MISFIT features singer and performer Natalie Gamsu, pianist and composer Jonathan Cooper and a rogue’s gallery of prostitutes and pimps, sodomites and sluts, and some sorrowful souls who have accidentally fallen through the cracks in society’s thin veneer.

With songs by Noel Coward, Kurt Weill, Scott Walker, The Divine Comedy, Yazoo, Annie Lennox and Jonathan himself (amongst others) we learn of the wicked ways of those who live on the margins of life: how to live disgracefully into old age, how to permanently scrounge a living, how to sell your body, how to sell your soul, how to shake it like jelly on a plate, how to dream of killing your lover, and how to marry a one-legged sailor from Venezuela…

Entertaining, enlightening and invigorating in equal measure…come and join the MISFITS…

“Find a more unique and captivating performer than Natalie Gamsu and you’ve discovered someone quite incredible” Troy Dodds - AussieTheatre.com 

“…Natalie Gamsu is one of the most extraordinary performers to hit the Gotham nitery circuit” Martin Schaeffer - Backstage, New York.

Friday and Saturday 12,13, 19, 20, 26, 27 March
All Shows 7.00pm
Tickets: $25 Advance Sales / $30 At The Door

The El Rocco Room (Formerly Bar Me)
154 Brougham St (Cnr William St), Kings Cross

BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT:

1300 GET TIX (438 849) or click here.

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