Cabaret Live! Valentine's Edition
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 11:15PM Valentine’s Day Special Cabaret Live (#10) wrap-up – 7/2/2010 courtesy of Ben Finn.
This month’s Cabaret Live was absolutely jam packed with its special Valentine’s Day theme.
La Boheme was “standing room only”, with patrons being turned away at the door because it was at maximum capacity.
Nikki Aitken returns as the MC, with Matthew Carey on the piano.
We saw some regular faces: Nikki Aitken and Jamie Jewell singing “I’d Give It All For You”, Charlie Sanders with “Close Every Door”, Sidonie Henbest with numbers from her upcoming Adelaide Fringe Show “The Last of the Red Hot Mammas”, Loki Rikus with “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” and the wonderful Chris Mason did a beautiful rendition of “The Best is Yet to Come”. Fiona Talbot Leigh taught us a thing or to about what to expect with her Fringe show as one of the performers from “Berlin Cabaret” and Adelaide actor Antje Guenther sang a German Lied song and explained to us why they use a “flower” instead of what they really meant!
There were a lot of new faces, including some young performers (who were sent home to bed not long after) with “For Good” from the musical Wicked. Sarah Laing returned for 2010 with a spectacular “Girl in 14 G”, Claire McEvoy wooed the crowd with a lovely Bob Dylan song, Mark Stefanoff gave us a bit of Jekyll and Hyde with “This is the Moment” and Anjali Habel-Orel made us remember what Cabaret Live is all about with a stunning version of “Here’s Where I Stand”.
We were also introduced to Matthew Carey singing for the first time at Cabaret Live, which was a fantastic highlight early on in the night.
Cabaret Live is really getting the place to be on the first Sunday of the month. Keep an eye out for the next one and make sure you get there early!
