Adelaide Cabaret June 17, 2011

With the eleventh annual Adelaide Cabaret Festival and the fourth Cabaret Fringe now happening, there’s a good chance that South Australia holds the TWO biggest Cabaret Festivals in the world. Concurrently.

For an audience now spoilt for choice, Cabaret Confessional presents a comprehensive daily listing for Adelaide cabaret connoisseurs who haven’t yet finalised their plans. 

Chita Rivera - My Broadway

I had the privilege of seeing Chita perform in Melbourne in 2006. She was exciting, electric and sexy as hell. MC 

Freeway – The Chet Baker Journey Featuring Tim Draxl

Josie Lane - Josie In The Bathhouse

Kenny Mellman, Bridget Everett and Neal Medlyn - Our Hit Parade

Cabaret and music theatre critic for Time Out New York Adam Feldman says “I’ve seen Bridget (from OHP) do some genuinely shocking things, and I’ve gotten pretty hard to shock.” 

Brace yourself Adelaide. MC

Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On

This Grammy-award winner was brilliant at the launch. He was in top form - what a class act! LN

Michael Griffiths - In Vogue: Songs by Madonna

Mikey Robins and Margarita Pracatan - Live in the Piano Bar

Molly Pope - Introducing Molly Pope

Simon Burke - Something About Always

Follow the great career of Simon Burke from Play School to the West End. It’s all about him at last. LN

The Wet Spots

Tuba Skinny

Café Theatre 2011

Comedy Hypnosis!

Flamenco Fridays 

Phlegm Fatale

Guilty Pleasures

A Modest Exhibit

After the hugely successful 2011 Adelaide Fringe season, Charles Sanders makes his Cabaret Fringe Festival debut with his show A Modest Exhibit. Click here to read his interview.

Songs that make you go MMM

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Showqueen Sunday: FIONA SULLIVAN and guests - 18th April @ Kit & Kaboodle Supper Club (Sydney)

In the final weeks, Showqueen will present the incredible voice of Fiona Sullivan at Kit & Kaboodle Supper Club. 

Fiona is a singer and actress who works in television, cabaret, on the theatre stage and for corporate events. She is a renowned multi-genre vocalist and session singer, equally at home swinging in front of a big band, or raising the roof with a symphony orchestra.

Fiona has performed as part of the Ten Sopranos, on TV with the Wiggles and has one of the most versatile voices in the business, with a wicked sense of humor. She lent her voice to the debut album from Simon Burke, Something About Always.  Recorded at James Morrison’s new studio, the album has been released in Australia and the UK.  She also helped turned the city of Sydney pink as a special guest vocalist aboard one of the floats at the Mardi Gras parade.

Fiona will perform with the fabulous Bev Kennedy, and special guests. 

Fiona Sullivan and guests

Date: Sunday 18th April

Time: 7:00pm doors/ 8:30 show 

Venue: Kit & Kaboodle Supper Club, 37 Darlinghurst Road Kings Cross  Tel: (02) 9368 0300

Tickets: $25 at the door (dinner available from the venue)

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Trevor Ashley’s Showqueen to go on hiatus

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Simon Burke Album launch @ The Civic Hotel 15 Feb - One Night Only! (Sydney)

From  Trevor Ashley Presents ShowQueen

During his brief visit back to Australia, join Simon Burke to launch his debut album Something About Always at Civic Cabaret on February 15. With musical director Daniel Edmonds at the piano and Simon’s smooth vocals behind the microphone, the night will offer a rare opportunity to experience Simon up-close and personal in the intimate cabaret room at the Civic Hotel. Simon has just completed a season as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music in Toronto, following a season opposite John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles in London.

Simon has achieved critical and popular acclaim on stage and screen in Australia and internationally, since winning the AFI Award for Best Actor at the age of 13 for his performance in The Devil’s Playground. His first music theatre role was Marius in the original Australian cast of Les Miserables, since then has starring roles include Anything Goes, Falsettos, Chicago, The Wild Party, High Society, They’re Playing Our Song, Company and the world premieres of Satango and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Simon’s many London stage credits include the roles of Raoul in Phantom of the Opera and Carl-Magnus in A Little Night Music opposite with Dame Judi Dench at the Royal National Theatre. His impressive repertoire extends to film and television as well, including Pitch Black (with Vin Diesel), Brides of Christ, and After the Deluge. Simon is also one of Play School’s most loved and long-standing presenters.

Simon’s debut album, Something About Always, is an intimate recording that allows you to experience his rich, powerful and emotive voice, and features two very special guest stars: Connie Fisher and Caroline O’Connor. Including classic musical theatre numbers like All I Care About Is Love, You’re The Top, Sorry Grateful and Edelweiss, the album is a collection of songs that have played a part in Simon’s life and career. Simon writes, “I guess recording your first album is maybe like, writing your first novel: you sing what you know. These songs have gotten to know me over the years – in and out of character, in cabaret, at Carnegie Hall; from Play School to the Palladium.”

Join Simon at Civic Cabaret on February 15 for his first (and last) performance in Sydney for a very long time! Something About Always will be available for purchase on the night at the special price of $20 and Simon will be available to sign copies.

He will also make a guest appearance at ShowQueen Sunday on 14th February at Kit & Kaboodle Supper Club.

The Civic Hotel, 388 Pitt Street, Sydney

Date: February 15

Time: 7.30pm

$25

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

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