Aaron Cash hits the stage and sings the first few bars of a famous song then, in the manner of all good cabaret performance, this show takes a turn, or two.
In seventy minutes, Tuckerman sings twelve songs or medleys. In between songs, she chats engagingly to us about the ups and downs of her professional career. It’s a simple recipe, and like most simple recipes, it works.
Tina del Twist is played by Australian singer/actor/writer/comedian/producer and director Wes Snelling. She is Wes’s bohemian Auntie - the family misfit, never quite fitting in. With a good serve of red wine, in a brandy balloon big enough to bath a baby in, Tina stumbles on stage to begin what she thinks is her Christmas concert.
The band Nancy and Beth is the creation of Megan Mullally, who is recognisable from her role as Karen in the hit television show Will & Grace. She is joined on stage by her co-creator Stephanie Hunt from Friday Night Lights.
It is just like the publicity says, it’s raucous, it’s nostalgic and it’s a loud and proud celebration of the incredibly long list of talented Australian women who have graced our pop and rock scene.
Directed by Steven Gates (Tripod), Suburban Gothic boasts three cabaret singers and an impressive band complete with cello, drums, and baby grand piano.
It wouldn’t be an Adelaide Cabaret Festival without our favourite fabulously faux German, Hans, and he’s ready to keep your night of cabaret fun going in the entertaining variety show 11 O’Clock Hour with Haus of Hans.
Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered is the debut original cabaret show by Adelaide-based performer Millicent Sarre.
Shake It offers an hour of entertainment, packed with guest acts from across the burlesque, circus and cabaret communities, both in Adelaide and interstate.
Eighteenth century taproom etiquette isn’t hard to pick up. you get the idea in no time.
Dolly Parton fans will find themselves delighted by Dolly Diamond’s unique cabaret interpretation of the country singer’s biggest hits.
The Greek word “taxithi” translates into English as “journey”. Yet in the way of Greek words, it evokes so much more than mere movement. It encompasses yearning, sorrow, optimism and hope, along with grief and loss. It is the word which sums up the experience of almost any migrant.
There’s much comedy, witty song rewrites, costumes, zany characters, and the odd medical prop, all presented with considerable energy by this solo performer.
Anyone growing up in the late 90’s would be all too familiar with the music of the Spice Girls, the fun pop group from the UK who spawned several hits around the globe! Anyone coming to see Spice Rack strictly for a tribute show of the girls were definitely not getting just that. This was a tribute show with a twist, and more of a variety hour of skits and musical mash-ups.
A Stitch In Time is a terrific cabaret of knitting songs and quirky facts from WWI and WWII, researched, developed and presented by the Canadian singer, Melanie Gall
Alongside her hugely successful Squeeze My Cans, theatrical polymath Cathy Schenkelberg is premiering her new show, Squeeze My Cabaret, at this year’s Fringe. It is a blatant fun-poke at the silliness of a so-called “religion” founded by a science-fiction writer.
What lies behind the mask of a hero? In the vernacular of social media, “it’s complicated”.
Should you be looking for Fringe entertainment which considers biochemistry, neuroanatomy, the effects of neurotransmitters, and why loneliness can kill, this is your show.
Actor, voice-over artist, singer, mother and Scientology survivor, Cathy Schenkelberg is bringing her incredibly successful one-woman shows to the Adelaide Fringe this year.
If you're after an evening of epic entertainment, grab a bottle of wine and settle in. Life the Show is what Fringe is all about.