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09/06/2009
MIX FM (Adelaide)
Breakfast - 9/06/2009 7:10 AM
John Riddell, Jodie Blewett and Snowy
Executive Producer Ms Carol Atkinson 08 8300 1000
Comperes say that they were lucky on Friday night to be able to go along to
the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. They had an array of all sorts of acts, such as
Bernadette Peters and a group called Duel. All Saints star Virginia Gay was
also there in the show 'Gentlemen Prefer Blokes'. The hosts speak to Gay.
Originally Courtney Act from Australian Idol was meant to be on the show.
Gay says that Act broke her leg in Canada, and she received a call to be a
drag queen in the show. She says that the Adelaide Cabaret Festival is
internationally renowned.
Demographics
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14000
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28000
Interviewees: Virginia Gay, All Saints star
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Leon Byner
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Byner says he has prizes to give away including a double to see 'Duel',
thanks to the Cabaret Festival. Michael says the desal plant is going up but
says they won't get a drop of that water in Pirie. He wonders why they should
be paying for the price rise in water when they won't have any of that water.
Byner says he should get Karlene Maywald to answer that question.
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VIBE
Life's a cabare
VARIETY GALA
JULIA Morris was an inspired and delicious
choice for the Variety Gala Performance
MC with many in the audience saying she
should host the Logies next year. With her
relaxed style she's simply a natural.
First to perform was Barbara Streisand impersonator Steven Brinberg and he simply
could not be faulted.
When Babs
cannot perform
at a function
Brinberg is the
next in line and
it's easy to see
why. The couple
behind us
even debated
whether he was
miming or not he wasn't.
Keeping the wow factor going Ali
McGregor showed her operatic brilliance
and sexy side in a luscious version of Hernando's Hideaway, which is a popular shmA
tune from the musical The Pajama Game.
It was then time for some audience interac
tion as Mr Percival showed off his clever
song creation techniques using a series of
loop pedals and his extraordinary voice.
Young cabaret performer Hayden Tee
joined award-winning composer John Buc
chino onstage for a version of Bucchino's
song Sweet Dreams.
Tee had admitted to feeling "nervous" aboL
performing with the respected songwriter,
but he put in a flawless performance.
Changing the pace, French entertainers
Duel gave each other a hand playing varioL
instruments including the piano, cello and
didgeridoo all at the same time.
Many in Adelaide didn't know much about
these two highly skilled and funny musicians and after their routine Duel has had
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the highest walk-up sale of tickets at this
year's festival.
At 84 years of age Julie Wilson gave a
phenomenal and gutsy performance of the
classic show tune The Lady Is A Tramp.
The gorgeous Nick Christo did a fun version of the slightly naughty 1920s song, I
Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.
After watching Christo shimmy I think he
might shake it better than Kate!
New cabaret performer Sheridan Harbridge proved just why she was the winner
of the 2008 Cabaret Showcase in Sydney.
She's one very funny girl with a biting wit
and great vocals.
With just one song from Into The Woods
Bernadette Peters had the entire theatre
completely enthralled.
Hopefully the Variety Gala will become
a favourite of Festival-goers and
entertainers alike.
Melissa Phillips
BARBARA LUNA
A FEISTY
Barbara
Luna brought a
docile Adelaide audience to life at the
Space Theatre on
Friday night, June 5.
The Argentinian
singer/songwriter,
alternating between
fingerpicking an
amplified nylon-
string guitar and
shimmying like a
risque flamenco
dancer, overcame the sleepy warmth of
the Space to triumph with her rhythmic,
melodic songs.
By the end of the evening, people were on
their feet and clapping along, moved by her
genuine warmth.
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Duel
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If ever there was an act that deserves a long
season, it's Laurent Cirade and Paul Staicu's
`Duel'. Their schedule did not allow it apparently
and that's a crying shame as these artists and this
show offers one of the most uplifting, insightful,
playful and passionate forays into exploring and
celebrating music's central place in life. Be it Lou
Reed to Bach-pick any classical master -Cirade
and Staicu's sheer love of the music is beautifully
expressed in a spirit of comic imagination akin to
Jacques Tati and the Marx Brothers.
Like children cut loose with their toys, Cirade
and Staicu romp through a series of musical
sight gags that are so much more than that. It's
playtime with smarts. The very instruments are
personalised - Cirade's Cello becomes a woman
both men chat up, or represent other things, like a
cello as a slowly roasting side of beef by the campfire in a wonderful take on the Western genre.
How these two play against and with each
other is an extraordinary thing to watch and most
beautifully and powerfully demonstrated in two
phenomenal duets, as opposed to their many
comic duels. How remarkable it is to watch both
men entwined with each other play three instru-
ments at once; Cirade's left hand at the cello's
fret, right on the piano. Staicu's left hand on the
piano, right on the cello strings and Cirade plays
the third, a long steel pipe akin to a didgeridoo.
The second duet sees both playing the cello;
Staicu plays percussion on it, Cirade the strings.
What are they playing? A totally rock out, funky
version of Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side. It
had me, and many audience members bopping
in our seats.
'Duel' is one of those great life affirming experiences you hope for in art. They better return to
Adelaide soon.
Axis Of Awesome sits some where between
The Scared Weird Little Guys and Tripod. They
have more edge than the Scardies but not quite the
sharpness of Tripod's writing. The Axis Of Awesome is about having fun being clever more than
anything else and in this they greatly succeed. The
highlight of clever was turning The Eagles Hotel
California into a stunning comic comment on the
vagaries of bad hotel service. Lee Naimo played
the fast speaking role of the customer as Jordan
Raskopoulos and Benny Davis played the song
and sang the lyrics in conversational mode with
Nairne. An edge was added to the song's inherent
sense of spookiness. Axis Of Awesome's take on
it was just surreal. The mad Birdplane nearly tops
this while the song to answer as they say, all those
questions people usually ask them after a show,
should be more fully developed. When Jordan
kicked in with `yes, I know I look like Jack Black'
(which he does) I wanted more, more, more but
that was all we got. Let's face it when you've got
a short little keyboard player who looks like
Chicken Little as was pointed out to the audience, there's a song waiting to happen there!
There were unfortunate lulls in pace and material here and there. These did not detract from
the night however, and given the fan base
present, luckily so. Overall, Axis Of Awesome is a clever, punky rock art comedy
ensemble that's only just begun to really
make its mark.
David O'Brien
David O'Brien
Axis Of Awesome
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Showtime wows crowd
Variety Gala Performance
Festival Theatre, Friday
Dame Edna Everage in her choice of with hands that reached up where the
frocks and the way she sends up sub- notes could not quite get.
urban Australian womanhood.
Other highlights included Nick
Steven Brinberg punctuated his bril- Christo's rocking it up with I Wish I
TAKING a leaf from the New York
Cabaret Convention, artistic director liant, hair-flicking Barbra Streisand im- Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, Bob
pression with mischievously masculine
coughs, while Argentina's Barbara Luna
led a combo through a Latin clap-along.
The drag duo from Gentlemen Prefer
Blokes breathed life - and some raunchy
new lyrics - back into Marilyn Monroe
Sheridan raising the rafters with a gospel and Jane Russell.
Veteran Julie Wilson showed what it
choir on Gonna Build a Mountain.
Morris was in fine comic fettle, to the takes to be a showbiz survivor, rasping
point where she is starting to resemble her way through The Lady is a Tramp
David Campbell's decision to open his
first Adelaide Cabaret Festival with a
variety gala proved a crowd-pleaser.
It opened with host Julia Morris descending from the rafters on wires and
ended with Packed to the Rafters' Hugh
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Downe's buffoonery on Boogie Woogie
Bugle Boy, Phil Scott's Liberace take on
West Side Story and Bernadette Peters'
rendition of No One is Alone.
The show-stealers, however, were
French duo Duel, swapping hands and
bows on the piano, cello and didgeridoo
to play classics, then beating out a hip-
hop rhythm while rapping a Walk on
the Wild Side.
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Laini
lainieantlersomssuntlaymail.cnm au
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LOOK AT IT THIS WAY
BEFORE I'd even seen a news
story about Kevin Foley's State
Budget on the ABC on Thursday
night, I was confronted by Mike
Rann's big, glossy television ad
selling the Budget to SBS viewers.
Mr Foley's new outsourced public
sector razor-gang - who are
surely being paid to do the job
of Parliament's Economic and
Finance Committee, Treasury
officials and individual department
heads - might like to start by
examining any inappropriate use of
taxpayer money on party political
advertising.
IN a week when serial screw-up
Andrew Symonds was dumped from
Australia's international cricket
team, it's great to see someone
like tennis player Samantha Stosur
fighting back from injury to reach
the semifinals at the French Open.
I don't often turn to Tom Cruise
for life coaching, but I always
remember him saying that his one
piece of advice to his kids is
"don't be casual". If you've got
talent, don't waste it. And don't
take success for granted. Congrats
too, to Tyson Edwards in joining
Andrew McLeod in the AFL's
300-club. Go Crows.
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THE Adelaide Cabaret's Variety
Gala Performance on Friday night
offered a sensational snapshot of
acts lining up to perform over the
coming fortnight (and here's hoping
it becomes an annual event). I'm no
Cabaret aficionado but my top tips
would have to be: Duel (last show is
tonight but they're brilliant, so qet
in quick); Bob Downe;
Mr Percival and Hugh
Sheridan (of Packed
to the Rafters
fame). I've got no
idea if gala host
Julia Morris can
actually sing,
f
but for laughs
she'd be worth
a look too.
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Bring it on, Mr C
NEW Cabaret boss David
Campbell rolled out the red
carpet on Friday night and
the audience went gaga over
the gala showcase.
It was a healthy hint of what is
to come and a great sample bag of
solid gold and shiny new talent.
From the fabulous effrontery of
newcomer Sheridan Harbridge to
the Broadway royalty of
Bernadette Peters, it highlighted
the quality of this year's program.
Host Julia Morris shamelessly
self promoted and ad-libbed her
way through the evening, smooth-
CABARET
pace for the evening and Mr
Cabaret Festival
Variety Gala
chestra backing. Gentlemen Prefer
Blokes were a really entertaining
Festival Theatre, June 5.
Percival proved a sound investment, creating his own vocal ordrag.
Bugle Boy Bob Downe got the
The players: Julia Morris,
Bernadette Peters, Bob Downe,
Hugh Sheridan, Barbara Luna,
Hayden Tee, Stephen Brinberg,
Duel, Sheridan Harbridge.
Standout: Bernadette Peters.
...*% In short: Stunning showcase.
crowd singing with a WWII
singalong, but the star turn of the
night was a surprise appearance
by Broadway's favourite baby,
Bernadette Peters.
The ageless superstar strode on
stage and reduced the spellbound
crowd to a sobbing mess with her
soul-wrenching rendition of No-one
ing over the inevitable bumps a
variety revue invites.
The Lady Is A Tramp, and the
Is Alone from Into The Woods.
Barbra Streisand got the show off
to a classy cooing start, leading a
line-up of leading ladies including
ditional instruments can rap up
task of following her but his
any evening.
Liberate proved a trissy treat, with
Luna and lively Ali McGregor.
Effervescent octogenarian Julie
Wilson ramped up the crowd with
Tee in a touching rendition of his
ballad Sweet Dreams. Nifty Nick
Christo added some much-needed
Adelaide's Hugh Sheridan delivering a soaring rendition of Anthony
Newley's Gonna Climb A Moun-
Steven Brinberg's brilliant
luscious Argentinean Barbara
musically manic Duel showed tra-
Phil Scott had the unenviable
suitably outrageous accent, sparkBroadway songsmith John ling
outfit and wave-blown wig.
Bucchino accompanied Hayden
And the evening finished with
tain, supported by the volcanic
voice of another exciting local
product Trace Canini in golden
attire, with her gospel ensemble.
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THE 2009 ADELAIDE CABARET
FESTIVAL
THE FIRST REPORT
Reported by Frank Ford
David Campbell, international Australian musical theatre and cabaret
entertainer, is the new artistic director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. In its
9th year the Festival features International and Australian artists.
Over 250 artists in 57 shows will give 133 performances across
the 16 days of the Festival, 5 - 20 June. Over 40 performances
sold out before the Festival opened and it is set to outsell
previous Festivals' 46,000 plus audience members.
The Adelaide Festival Centre and its higly skilled staff utilise the
three existing theatres (2000, 600 and 400 seats) and convert
the banquet room and various areas in the complex into
attractive intimate cabaret venues with two or three
performances in each venue every night of the Festival.
Already, after the Opening weekend of the Festival, David
Campbell has put his own distinctive stamp on the event. In
developing the artistic direction of this year's Festival David said
he was "eager to focus on three things; (1) showcasing the
established (2) promoting the up and coming and (3) urging well
known performers to embrace the medium of cabaret. The
performances may be varied but the one common denominator
is quality."
The sensational Opening Night Gala Variety Performance showcased just
that. The sold out 2000 seat Festival Theatre buzzed with excitement and the
audience was fed a feast of brilliant performances. A mind boggling 17 acts
delighted the audience which responded with thunderous applause as they
experienced a glimpse of some of the great shows on offer at the Festival.
Campbell, resplendent in gold lame jacket and his glamorous co-producer
wife Lisa welcomed arriving guests as they walked the red carpet, setting the
scene for a night to remember.
The show got off to an equally glamorous start with Steven Brinberg's
brilliant, seductive portrayal of Barbra Streisand. He stunned the audience by
inviting a local football legend and sports columnist to join Barbra in a duet of
Neil Diamond's You Don't Bring me Flowers. They both scored a hit with the
audience.
The evening presented a rich smorgasbord of cabaret royalty and rising new
talent, emphasising Campbell's aim of presenting a stimulating quality
program. The 84 year old Queen of Cabaret, Julie Wilson won the hearts of
the audience with a spunky rendition of The Lady is a Tramp. Equally the
surprise appearance of the Cabaret Festival's star attraction,
Bernadette Peters was a knock out! The audience was spell
bound by her super-star presence and her deeply moving Noone is Alone from IntoThe Woods.
John Bucchino, Broadway composer, whetted our appetite for his
two shows in the Festival by having Hayden Tee give us an ever
so sweet performance of Bucchino's beautiful ballad Sweet
Dreams.
Host, comedienne Julie Morris, skilfully linked the acts with her
sharp repartee. International cabaret acts like the gorgeous
Barbara Luna was a Latin hotspot and the sparkling French comedy and
music duo Duel were jewels which indicated the exotic touches of the coming
events in the Festival.
Australian stars like opera/jazz singer comedienne Ali McGregor dazzled;
Glam drag couple Trevor Ashley and Virginia Gay, in clever song and dance
routines convinced us Gentlemen Prefer Blokes; Nick Christo shimmied the
legend of Francis Faye; the hilarious Bob Downe as World War Bob led the
audience in a patriotic sing-along; Mr Percival by recording loops created his
own orchestra; Trace Canini converted us with her gospel ensemble and Phil
Scott resurrected Liberace with a dazzling display of his virtuosity on the
piano. Rising talent like Sheridan Harbridge and Hugh Sheridan convince you
news stars are in the making.
The Gala Variety Performance was a cornucopia of enticing tastes that
wetted the appetite for wanting more. The Gala was a great success and is
sure to feature in future Adelaide Cabaret Festivals.
The first weekend June 5 - 7 offered so many different shows it was
impossible for me to see them all. Here are the ones I managed to see and
some critics' comments on some of the ones I was unable to catch.
The jewel in the crown of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2009 is surely "An
Evening of Bernadette Peters" in the 2000 seat Festival Theatre. Adoring
fans jumped to their feet applauding her loudly on her entrance, which she
topped by launching into a full on frontal attack of Let Me Entertain You. Her
dynamic stage presence and focussed energy was breath taking. This
"Broadway Baby" really has it all. A bravura display of her talents gushed
forth. With a twinkle in her eye she sizzled through Fever reclining atop the
grand piano. She topped and tailed her songs with comic quips. And as a
great interpreter of Stephen Sondheim she enchanted us with memorably
performances of his songs such as the beautiful No One Is Alone from Into
the Woods which he wrote for her and Johanna backed up by the grand
Festival Theatre pipe organ.
Her musical theatre talents came to the fore when she burst into Mama Rose
from Gypsy. She then delivered a knock out There Is Nothing Like A Dame
as part of her Rodgers and Hammerstein tribute along with the delightful
When I Marry Mr Snow and Some Enchanted Evening. But I thought that I
had died and gone to Heaven when she sang sublimely, almost a capella
Shenandoah while an occasional phrase from a harmonica drifted in and out.
As an encore and as a tribute to her friend Peter Allen she sang so tenderly I
Honestly Love You. I honestly love you Bernadette Peters and so did the
audience witnessed by their standing ovations and cheering.
A genuine surprise of the Festival was DUEL, a vaudeville act by
two brilliant musicians as they engaged in combat and comedy.
French cellist Laurent Cirade and Romanian pianist Paul Staicu
battled it out upside-down or entwined with string bow and
keyboard and other odd objects, while often playing several
shared instruments. The visual comedy was enriched with their
wide range of musical references from the classics to The
Beatles, expertly played in the most excruciating positions. The
audience was doubled-up too, with their hilarious antics.
With the smallest of gestures, New Yorker Steven Brinberg convinced us that
we were in the presence of super star Barbra Streisand as he captured her
magic in his show Simply Barbra. With loving care he delivered her repertoire
entertaining us with his strong grip on the material, his vocal range and his
take on the Barbra personality. His understated exposure of Barbra's ego and
attitudes were delicious moments of satirical comedy. His renditions of her
ballads were the most enjoyable and brilliantly accompanied by
Christopher Denny on piano.
Each year the Adelaide Cabaret Festival presents a living
composer and this year in the show John Bucchino & Friends
many people were introduced to this Award -Winning New
Yorker and his work. With Bucchino on piano and his line up of
eight extremely talented friends we were treated to a survey of
his meaningful words and music. Buchinno in a very relaxed
manner, modestly and with gentle humour introduced his songs
and their back stories. Last year he had his first Broadway show
A Catered Affair and won the Drama League Award for Best
Musical.
Buchinno's Friends excelled themselves in delivering stunning
presentations of his songs. Ursula Yovich sang a moving It Feels
Like Home. Ali McGregor certainly gave us Sweet Dreams.
Darren Percival surprised and wowed us with What You Need
and Hayden Tee told us of the other side of domestic bliss in
Painting My Kitchen. Artistic Director of the Festival, David
Campbell and John Bucchino are old friends and had worked together
before, so it was no surprise when Campbell sang Better Than I and the
finale Grateful we experienced an insightful and thrilling performance.
So moved by Grateful I said to my partner I want that played at my funeral.
In the intimate JB Room which seats only 60, Campbell is "introducing the
next generation of cabaret singers" such as the charming young chanteuse
Elenoa Rokobara. Elenoa told us that she grew up listening to her father's
records of jazz, gospel, blues and soul from the likes of great Billie Holiday
and Ella Fitzgerald which were sources of inspiration and influence for her.
This is reflected in the resonances and richness of her vocal range. What
amazed was her ability to make her chosen songs her own as when she
gave a stunningly fresh interpretation of George Gershwin's Summertime and
Billie Holiday's God Bless The Child. Elenoa Rokobara is a fresh and original
talent, someone to keep an eye out for.
As it is impossible to see all the shows on offer, here are two shows I missed
and the critics loved. Dianna Carroll in the Independent Weekly said of Ali
McGregor's Jazz Cigarette "From the opening notes of The Man I Love to the
closing bars of Peel Me A Grape, McGregor was pitch perfect and oh so
sexy. She is the embodiment of: "naughty but nice", super sexy in a playful
pussycat way: she's no wanton alley cat. I don't think there was a woman in
the audience who didn't want to be her, nor a man who didn't want her." And
as a successful opera singer "in this show, she leaves opera behind to delve
in the "darker side" of cabaret."
Stephen Whittington in The Advertiser wrote "Barbara Luna is a dynamo on
stage. But in quieter moments she can summon up intense emotion, as she
did a smouldering rendition of Una Noche Mas and, surprisingly, in the Jimmy
Hendrix classic Little Wing...her songs traverse familiar emotional territory the joy or pain of love - eternal themes that Latin music continues to thrive
on."
The Piano Bar 'the festival club', offers free admission with a show ticket, no
wonder it was packed out each night as shows finished. On Opening night
artists gave impromptu performances and on other nights bands provide a
party atmosphere to dance or as background music for patrons to excitedly
chatter about the shows they had seen.
The First Weekend was a huge success and there is still a lot more to come
in the next two weeks.
Frank Ford
Full details of the program on http://www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com/
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The Advertiser – AdelaideNow Online
Review by Stephen Whittington
June 07, 2009 11:30pm
Dunstan Playhouse
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Duel is possibly the funniest and cleverest musical act you're ever likely to see.
Pianist Paul Staicu and cellist Laurent Cirade mix slapstick humour, musical wit and Dadastyle absurdity. And like the best musical humorists - Victor Borge or Rainer Hirsch spring to
mind - they prove that they are excellent musicians.
That is precisely what makes them so funny.
They converse in a strange patois but their humour is non-verbal. It includes a few stunts that
recall old routines from Vaudeville and Music Hall - playing the piano upside-down and back
to front, or simultaneously playing several shared instruments.
What distiguishes them is an extraordinary array of musical references from the classics via
the movies to pop. The little narratives they construct - a rerun of 'Close Encounters', a
Western campfire scene, a competition for the affections of a cello-woman - are irresistibly
funny. The contrast of physique and temperament between the small, manic Staicu and the
imposing, grumpy Cirade heightens their comic interaction.
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Review by Maggie Moore
Take one pianist and one cellist, combine superb musicality and great comic ability, pop it all into the
mix and you get one fabulous night of entertainment.
Cirade and Staicu get the audience going straight off with their cello stand routine and thereafter the
night builds on one comic routine after another until a standing ovation is the result at the end.
While it’s not a new idea – Victor Borge was famous for his comic musical routines – I doubt that there
was this much imagination in any previous manifestations. The plaintive saw, wailing its music by the
imaginary campfire while the piano, is played underhand (you need to see it to understand), the Barry
White imitations, the exchange of instruments between the two without missing a beat and then the
beatboxed cello doubling as string and percussion for a remix of Lou Reed’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side’.
And then just when we thought we’d got to the top of the tree with routines, they produce a slam dunk
skit with a pianist in a geriatric wheelchair and a selfish music-obsessed orderly.
Only two shows this time for Duel, unfortunately, but hopefully they will be back, and if they are, make
sure you see them.
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country, and one of the only ones in the world.
- HAYDEN TEE
Stars of
the future
arrive for
Cabaret
PATRICK McDONALD
Argentinian singer-
ARTS EDITOR
guitarist Barbara Luna
RISING young stars of
the Australian stage
shared the spotlight
with celebrities last
night at the Adelaide
Cabaret Festival's
opening variety gala
concert.
Hollywood
actress
Bernadette Peters,
who performs again at
the Festival Theatre
tonight and tomorrow,
and French musical
comedy duo Duel.
New York-based
Barbra Streisand impressionist Steven
Brinberg even serenaded sports person-
ality Graham Comes
with You Don't Bring
Me Flowers.
For Western Austra-
appearance to sing No
One is Alone, written
lian Academy of Performing Arts graduate
Nick Christo, Sydney
musical theatre per-
Stephen Sondheim.
and NIDA actress
made a special guest
for her by the great
Also appearing on
the bill were Broadway
composer John
Bucchino and veteran
singer Julie Wilson,
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former Hayden Tee
Sheridan Harbridge, it
is the opportunity of a
lifetime. "It is really
the only cabaret festival in this country, and
one of the only ones in
the world, so it is incredibly important in
terms of the cultural
landscape," Tee said.
Christo will also per-
form his tribute to
band leader Frances
Faye.
"The reason I put my
show together in the
first place was to try
and get it to Adelaide,"
he said.
Other stars on the
red carpet included
Magda Szubanski, who
introduced Cabaret
Festival artistic director David Campbell to
his now-wife Lisa, and
Foxtel presenter
Antonia Kidman.
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Duo in cabaret combat
By ADAM TODD
DUEL mixes combat, comedy
and music - and all without a
single word being uttered.
Starring cellist Laurent
Cirade and pianist Paul
Staicu, the show will have its
Australian premiere at the Fes-
tival Centre this weekend as
part of the Adelaide Cabaret
Festival.
Duel tells the story of a war
without words between two
virtuosos, featuring slapstick
comedy, musical parody and a
diverse range of music, from
Bach to The Beatles and even
a didgeridoo. "We play classic,
rock, jazz, top 40, film music,
rap," Staicu said.
Starting in France eight years
ago, Duel has been performed
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world, including the US, UK,
South America and Europe.
Staicu said the lack of dia-
logue meant the show had universal appeal.
"People relate to it very well,
the fact we're not speaking,
everyone finds their way into
it," he said.
He described elements of the
show as a "modern-style
Charlie Chaplain".
Duel is on at the Dunstan
Playhouse on Saturday, June 6,
at 8.30pm, and Sunday, June 7,
at 5pm. Tickets: Adult, $42,
concession, $38. Book at BASS
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STOUSH: French cellist Laurent Cirade and Romanian pianist Paul Staicu yesterday.
LOUISE NUNN
SEQUINS and schtick are
getting a final polish in readiness for artistic director
David Campbell's first Adel-
aide Cabaret Festival beginning tomorrow.
Artists arriving in town for
the event include French
cellist Laurent Cirade and
show Duel.
"The show works very
nicely everywhere because
we don't use words," Staicu
said. "People everywhere re-
late to it, but I would have
to give an A-plus to our South
American audiences in Ven-
ezuela and Mexico. They
were explosive."
Cirade auditioned 10 ac-
Romanian pianist Paul complished pianists before
Staicu, who yesterday gave a
selecting Staicu.
demonstration of the mad-
The Romanian yesterday
joked: "I'm only in it for the
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money and the travel to
places like Australia."
However, beneath the
laughs, Cirade and Staicu are
classically trained musicians
who do what they do with the
utmost seriousness.
More than 250 artists will
appear in 57 shows equating
to 133 performances across
the 16 days of the festival.
About 100 hail from SA
while the rest are travelling
from interstate and overseas.
A large American contin-
gent includes Broadway cabaret legend Julie Wilson,
Tony Award-winning singer
Bernadette Peters, songwriter to the stars John
Bucchino and the Barbra
Streisand impersonator Ste-
ven Brinberg. Performers
will also be in Adelaide from
Canada, Argentina and New
Zealand. The official opening
event is a Variety Gala Performance at the Festival
Theatre tomorrow night.
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Duel takes a
novel, comic
approach
to music
PATRICK McDONALD
VIRTUOSITY battles hilarity
in Duel, which pits musician
against musician and the classics
against comedy at this year's
Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
French cellist Laurent Cirade
and Romanian pianist Paul Staicu
tackle everything from Bach to
the Beatles, combining clever
musical parodies with absurd
sight gags.
Staicu says Duel is cabaret "in
the largest and most comprehen-
sive sense of the expression".
"The way we see things has a
certain flexibility of creativity,"
he says. "We use the freedom that
we have to try to create something new, with ingredients that
usually don't work that way."
Cirade started learning cello at
age eight. Busking in the Paris
subway helped him to under-
I really felt like going backwards
on all I knew, trying to do some-
stand how people appreciate music - regardless of what you play
thing else with it and put it in a
new perspective," Staicu says.
your soul.
After performing chamber mu-
comic side of it."
sic with the National Orchestra
of France, he was a member of
Goliath characters while explor-
- so long as you play with all
"The novelty in Duel was the
The duo play David and
the contemporary group Quatuor
- the French equivalent of
ing everything from music and
sight gags to poetry and absurdity. Staicu cites the late, great
Victor Borge as a definite influence on Duel's style.
pianist in New York in 2000,
before moving back to France
"As they say in France, there's
before Borge and after Borge,"
Staicu describes himself as hav-
speak. We're more into slapstick
and visual comedy."
Kronos Quartet - for 12 years.
He created Duel with another
and finding Staicu through Staicu says. "The only major
auditions.
difference is that we do not
ing been a renegade at the very
classical Bucharest Academy of
Music before relocating to the
National Superior Conservatory
of Paris, where he won first
prizes in composition and jazz.
He went on to study and work
Staicu says both music and
visual comedy are universal languages. "When you see and hear
things, you don't need language
to explain them," he says.
"The kind of music you hear
is not only classical
but also film music, rock'n'roll,
with jazz greats including in Duel
Wynton Marsalis, Michel Portal,
Didier Lockwood and Steve
Coleman.
and so forth. What better way
"As for why we do this? After
all those years of formal training,
Playing for laughs
ethnic Romanian and top 40, jazz
to get accustomed to it than
through humour?"
UNIVERSAL: Pianist Paul
Staicu and cellist Laurent
Cirade bring music's
classics to the cabaret
stage along with a strong
dose of sight gags, poetry
and absurdity.
What: Duel
When: June 6 and 7
Where: Dunstan
Playhouse
Cost: $42, $38
concession, through
BASS
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Cabaret starts Friday
WITH summer now becoming a
memory and cold weather starting to
chill your bones, do not believe for a
second this is an excuse to become a
hermit this month.
The ninth annual Adelaide Cabaret
Festival is gearing up to pick up
where the city's autumn festivals left
off, once again bringing international
entertainment to your doorstep.
Starting on Friday and running
until June 20 at the Adelaide Festival
Centre in Adelaide, the Cabaret festival is a collection of comedy, dance,
music and theatre acts, with venues
at the centre transformed into intimate clubs in the evocative style of
old.
Some of the venues have tables and
chairs and allow you to take drinks
back to your seats, while others simply allow you to sit back and watch
the dazzling spectacles unfold.
This year's line-up includes 257
artists, presenting 57 different shows
in 133 performances.
Some 108 of the performers are
South Australians, while the rest
come from throughout Australia and
the world, including some of the most
celebrated international cabaret acts.
Musical theatre legend Bernadette
Peters, a Tony Award winning singer
from New York's Broadway, will perform on June 6 and 7, while American
singer Julie Wilson, who has been per-
James Angus from The Cat Empire.
This list only scrapes the surface of
the large number of acts attending the
festival, but to help you decide who to
see, there will be a Variety Gala
Performance tomorrow night to kick
off proceedings.
The gala will feature both international and Australian acts from the
forming for 70 years and made her
festival on the one night, with the full
line-up to be revealed at the perform-
own Broadway debut in 1946, will also
ance.
belt out songs during the festival.
Other international acts include
Argentine performer Barbara Luna,
the French act, Duel, the Canadian
puppet show Cabaret Decadanse, the
New Zealander, Hayden Tee, and
But stars may be spotted on any
given night, with the popular Kool Kat
Club playing music and offering
drinks late into the night, and often
revealing an artist or two letting their
hair down as they dance the night
Americans Lillias White, Steven
Brinberg, Avigail Herman, John
away with the crowds on the floor.
Kelin and her Parlour Boys.
Australian performers include well-
Festival brochure, available online at
www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com or
by calling the festival hotline on 8216
Bucchino, Butterscotch, and Jenet
known acts such as Tex Perkins and
his Ladyboyz, Kate Ceberano, Julia
Morris, Jimmy Barnes and Harry
- Details: Full program details are
available in the Adelaide Cabaret
8901. Tickets are on sale now at BASS,
on 131246. or at www.bass.net.au.
Stylish: The cabaret set-up in The Festival Centre's Space Theatre has been
a popular choice for festival goers, where drinks can be taken to tables during the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
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month before curtain up, the
Cabaret Festival was already sell-
ing out shows. A fortnight out,
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net clips leading up to the 2007 Federal
election. Their history of pop music, per-
a raft of extra nights was an-
formed using only 4 chords, is just one of
their many inspirational numbers.
nounced, and the sell-outs continued. Opening night is upon us as
this issue of blaze goes to press. Will
there be anything left at all? Here's
Percival, the creation of Sydney muso
Darren Percival, whose musical pedi-
A
hoping!
The first weekend of the Cabaret
Festival is, not surprisingly, all about
the superstars, and sure enough, Ber-
nadette Peters casts a pretty long
shadow! But outside the 2,000 seats of
the Festival Theatre, there's much to
enjoy.
In the Playhouse, for instance, there's
the Australian premiere of Duet a bril-
Opening on June 10 is yet another
Adelaide premiere, this time by Mr
gree includes stints backing James
Morrison and training with Bobby McFerrin of Don't Worry Be Happy fame.
It was McFerrin who encouraged him
to follow the dream of `painting' with
his voice and so, with just a voice, a
microphone, and some technology at
his feet, he's a genuine one man band,
recording, looping and over-dubbing
melodies and harmonies, complete
liant show featuring virtuosi Laurent
Cirade and Paul Staicu. Cirade (cello,
voice, didjeridoo and chainsaw) and
Staicu (piano, voice and handcuffs)
with rhythm section, in a performance
that's had the critics reaching for the
thesaurus to find new superlatives. An
performed in Duel for the first time together in Marseille in 2001, and some
700 performances in 20 countries later
they're in Adelaide, en route to the Avignon Festival. The show is very much in
the `Bach to Beatles' mould but with an
hilarious twist as two master musicians
stand slapstick alongside silky-smooth
jazz with a dramatic recitation thrown in
for good measure. Check out The Cello
Something completely different for
Chainsaw Massacre on IouTube-then
book! One of the shows is an early session at 5pm, just for those who like to fit
in three shows instead of two!
Also on the first weekend is Axis of
Awesome, the comedy band that shot
to international fame through their inter-
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early show, in the Banquet Room.
the fans of La Clique and late night
cabaret is
Cabaret Decadanse, a
blend of music and movement featuring astonishing puppets, that started
life as street theatre in Montreal a
decade ago. The stars of Cabaret De-
cadanse include Conrad the French
transvestite, Lorraine La Diva, Ertha
Kitt incarnate, queen of the night and
an, um, "old pro", Mauve the ingenue
of dubious habits, Kiko the Latin lover,
Jazz and Java, a couple of middle class
gossips, and Chica, the seductive little number who really shouldn't have
been in gaol, and in any case it wasn't
her fault. Puppeteers Serge Deslau-
riers and Enock Turcotte assist the
cast through a delicious repertoire that
ranges from blues and jazz to Broadway
show-stoppers. In this they're ably assisted by Andre-Anne Le Blanc, who
straps the numbers together as the grotesque MC, using just the foam head of
a puppet and a feather boa!
Don't forget Thursgays during Cabaret. The Adelaide premiere of Gentle-
men Prefer Blokes with Courtney
Act, T1evdr Ashley and Virginia Gay
is on June 11 at the Dunstan Playhouse.
And then there's Bingay with Mitzi
and Naomi (June 11 & 18), the funniest and most wicked bingo game you're
ever likely to experience! Book at [email protected]
The final mid-Festival treat, at least for
this issue, is Butterscotch, the Ameri-
ca's Got Talent finalist who stunned
audiences from coast to coast with her
combination of brilliant musicianshipshe's a cum lauda classical and jazz pianist-a phenomenal voice, and assorted
talents including being an international
beatbox champion! In her Australian
premiere performances she'll being presenting both the original tracks that have
already established her in the States as a
distinctive voice, and the covers that she
presents in her own inimitable style, with
influences that by her own admission
range from Chopin to Coltrane and everywhere in between!
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DUEL
by Robert Dunstan
Duel are French
cello player
Lament Cirade
and Romanian
pianist Paul
Staicn, who will
be making their
Australian debut at
Adelaide Cabaret
Festival. The zany
duo incorporate
much comedy and
musical parodies
into their act and
their extensive
program includes
material hvm
everyone from
Bach through to
The Beatles and
Lou Reed.
We speak over the telephone to Paul
Staicu about Duel, who have now played over
600 shows since forming in 2001.
"I have never been to Australia but I know
that Laurent went to Perth once. That was
when he was performing with Ouator and
I think that might have been over 12 years
ago."
Laurent Cirade, who has worked with the
National Orchestra Of France, was involved
with Quator for some 15 years before
forming Duet with Paul,
"Quator were very prominent in their
field," Paul states. "Quator were doing a
similar act to what Laurent and I have been
doing for the last eight years as Duet."
Duel's YouTube clips suggest their shows
are a great deal of fun - check out Laurent
playing his cello using a chainsaw as a bow.
"Yes, we do all kinds of stuff you wouldn't
want to try at home," Paul laughs. "The
chainsaw act is incredibly insane and gives
people a pretty good idea of what we get up
to. If you close your eyes, you just hear the
music, but when you open your eyes and see
what's actually going on, it's hard to believe.
"It might just be eight bars of music but
what happens with those eight bars is totally
insane. And that's where the power comes
from."
There's a clip on YouTube of Laurent
playing the digeridoo as well as fingering the
cello and also Paul's piano while the latter
plays piano while bowing the cello. That must
be hard to do.
"It takes a lot of practice. And it takes a
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lot of time to find those ideas. And then it
can take a lot of time to get them to work
how you want them to. What seems to be
when you just hear the music, is actually not
what is happening. So to get those tricks up
and running is hard as there needs to be a
meaning behind it all and some kind of story.
The stories are often inspired by things that
happen to us."
Paul, who goes on to say that the
didgeridoo will be making an appearance
in Adelaide, says the duo get on very well
together personally and professionally.
"After eight years we know each other so
well that it all goes very smoothly and works
really well. And we rehearse regularly and
are always making up new material. The
only problem is, some of that new material
is not always usable. We're very fussy and
don't want to bring anything into the show
unless it works really well. It has to be really
powerful, have some kind of meaning, and
also complements what is already there. So
I'd say that only half of the new things we
come up with end up in the show."
Are there any other companies doing a
similar act to Duel?
"There are a few," Paul concludes.
"Ouator are still going. And for some reason,
they mostly seem to come from France.
I don't know why that is. It seems that in
France, it's become a genre of some kind."
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Laughs assured at these two cabaret shows
The Cabaret Festival is almost here
and the New Fortnightly Adelaide
Hills Weekender has tickets to give
away to two great shows, Duel and
Gutenberg! The Musical.
Duel
Duel is a remarkable battle
between two virtuosos who confront
each other with equal weaponry
- the bow and keyboard. Cellist
Laurent Cirade and pianist Paul
Staicu move effortlessly from sight
gags to musical parodies to poetry,
combining absurdity, friendship,
cynicism and innocence while
playing an incredible program from
Lou Reed to Bach to The Beatles.
This show is an irresistible and
hilarious war without words featuring
two universal characters, the big and
the small, a David versus a Goliath.
The show stars Laurent Cirade and
Paul Staicu. Laurent started learning
cello at eight years old and served
part of his theatrical apprenticeship
busking in the Paris subway. A
member of the award-winning
French group Quatador, he has since
2001 performed Duel along with
Paul Staicu over 700 times around
the world.
Paul Staicu is an eclectic composer
and he has had his works performed
in major French festivals. He
composed Duel for the stage and
has participated in recordings and
recorded his compositions on the CD
Valah. Paul also founded a jazz class
at the "Ecole Normale de Musique"
and is currently working on recording
some of his new compositions.
Duel will be performed at the
Dunstan Playhouse from June 6-7.
Tickets are $42 and availabvle at
Bass. Phone 131 246.
Gutenberg! The Musical
In 1450, Johann Gutenberg
invented the printing press.
In 2009, Bud and Doug wrote a
show about it. In this hilarious twoman musical spoof, a pair of aspiring
playwrights perform a backers'
audition for their new project.
With an unending supply of
enthusiasm, Bud and Doug
sing sixteen songs and play
thirty roles in their silly
historical epic, with the hope
that one of the producers in
attendance will give them a
Broadway contract - fulfilling
their ill-advised dreams.
The show won the
2006 New York Musical
Theatre Festival Award
for Excellence in Musical
Theatre Writing and it has
enjoyed successful seasons
off Broadway and on
London's West End.
Gutenberg! The Musical will
be performed in the Banquet
Room at the Festival Theatre
from June 13-14. Tickets are
$36 and can be booked at Bass.
Phone 131 246.
Competition
The New Fortnightly Adelaide
Hills Weekender has one double for
each show to give away to lucky
readers. For your chance to win one
of the doubles, simply write the
answer to the question below, along
with your name, address and phone
number on the back of an envelope
and send it to The New Fortnightly
Weekender, PO Box 111, Crafers,
5152 by Monday, June 1. Tickets
for Duel are for Saturday, June 6
at 8.30pm and for Gutenberg! The
Musical, Sunday, June 14 at 4.15pm
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Simon van der Stap from
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Cabaret Festival set to warm your winter
Artistic Director for the Adelaide
Cabaret Festival, David Campbell
has announced the program for the
ninth annual Adelaide Cabaret Festival
which will run from June 5-20.
When the sun goes down, forget
the winter chills and come to where
it's warm inside, laughter rings out
and you can indulge in some of
the best cabaret around. Finish the
evening listening to the captivating
and soulful sounds of Late Nights in
the Piano Bar.
In the heart of Adelaide, the 2009
Adelaide Cabaret Festival will open
with a glamorous Variety Gala
Performance on Friday, June 5 at
7.30pm in the Festival Theatre. The
gala will offer a diverse sample of the
2009 festival program featuring local
and international stars, with the full
line-up to be revealed on the night.
This year the festival, proudly
supported by principal partner
FOXTEL, will celebrate the diversity
of cabaret and audiences will have a
once in a lifetime opportunity to see
some of the most successful artists
on the cabaret scene. A number
of exciting up and coming artists
about to explode onto the world
stage will also perform and there
will be some household names who
will be pushing the boundaries and
embracing the cabaret genre. With
artists from the US, France, Canada,
Argentina, New Zealand, along
with a host of talented Australian
performers, ticket demand is
expected to be high.
Appearing in her only Australian
performances, the festival is proud
to have musical theatre legend
Bernadette Peters headlining,
performing in the Festival Theatre
from June 6-7. Bernadette Peters
is among the creme de la creme of
live stage performers and a Tony
Award winning star on New York's
Broadway scene.
This year's line-up includes 257
artists, 108 of them South Australian
performers. Overall there will be 133
performances of some 57 different
shows across 16 days of the festival
opening on the Queen's Birthday
long weekend.
"I'm very proud of this year's
program, it's been wonderful to be
able to bring so many incredible
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performers together and I can't wait
to sit in the venues with the audience
and soak it all in," Adelaide Cabaret
Festival Artistic Director David
Campbell said.
"I've been playing my cards close
to my chest, but now we can reveal
the full deck."
From the top of the deck comes
two grand dames of cabaret: firstly,
sensational Broadway songstress
Julie Wilson. Julie has been stunning
audiences with her theatrical flair
for over 70 years, belting out songs
and beguiling audiences, and she is
a cabaret treasure not to be missed.
Secondly, the incomparable Robyn
Archer will appear for one show
only. Robyn will be on stage and
on song as she traces French song
through the twentieth century to the
end of the 1960's with
Que Reste-t'il?
Our Kings of Clubs include Harry
James Angus, best known for his
work with multi-platinum band
The Cat Empire, Pugsley Buzzard
will make his Adelaide Premiere in
an underworld of song titled Noir,
and get ready to rumble to the dark
delights and vodka-fuelled criminal
sounds of VulgarGrad. Daddy Cool
comes to Cabaret when Aussie
rock legend Ross Wilson performs
his world premiere No Smoke, Just
Mirrors, backed by a jazz trio,
with images from past to present.
Be mesmerized by vocal artist and
innovator Mr Percival as he takes
your ears on a journey of their own
and Artistic Director David Campbell
keeps it in the family with The Dad
& Dave Show, dueting with his dad
Jimmy Barnes singing each other's
songs and other songs that have
inspired them and their lives. No
set of Kings would be without an
explosive band of musicians that will
get you on your feet, this year it's the
foot stomping fun of Victor Valdes &
the Real Mexico Band.
Other highlights of the festival
include Tony Award winning actorsinger Lillias White, direct from
the US. This torch song diva will
have you laughing and crying with
her incredible voice. Stunning jazz
vocalist Tina Harrod will sing songs
from her album Worksongs, while the
extraordinarily soulful Kate Cebrano
will perform for one night only with
songs of love and loss.
No deck would be complete
without the jokers and this year
get set to laugh till it hurts, starting
with the irrepressible Bob Downe
paying tribute to the troop shows
of yesteryear in World War Bob.
The high energy Every Film Ever
Made and comedy sensation Axis of
Awesome will entertain with rapid
fire wit and charm and don't miss the
hilarious ladies of comedy brimming
with naughtiness, Julia Morris and
Jackie Loeb in their one woman
shows. Back by popular demand will
be the memorable Carpenters From
Kempsey, from France, Duel will
battle it out using bow and keyboard
as their weapons of choice, and from
Canada Cabaret Decadanse is camp,
cool and quirky, a puppet show for
adults.
If diamonds are a girl's best friend
then Courtney Act and Trevor Ashley
in Gentlemen Prefer Blokes will
drag you in for one night only. Other
ladies set to lend a little sparkle to the
2009 program include Trace Canini
singing Gospel Groove, along with
the sassy sounds of Ali McGregor
and making her Australian premiere.
Back by popular demand is Sing
Your Own Musical, with Michael
Morley and friends for another
sing-along around the piano, free
in the Piano Bar. While you are at
the festival make sure you go to the
Artspace Gallery and check out the
free exhibition by Brooklyn based
photographer Jerry Dantzic.
The `Bring a Friend Free on
Wednesday' offer, thanks to Minter
Ellison will again be a feature of the
Festival ensuring it is as accessible
to as many people as possible. Be
decadent and book five or more
shows and automatically become
a member of the Adelaide Cabaret
Festival Top Deck Club to receive
special offers.
Full program details are available
in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival
brochure. Receive one free by calling
the Adelaide Cabaret Hotline on
8216 8901 or go to
xti wadelaidecabaretfestival.com
Tickets on sale now around the
country from BASS on 131 246 or
online at wwwbass.net.au
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Fortnightly
Captivating
cabaret
Swing king David Campbell has hit the ground running
in his first year as Artistic Director of the Adelaide
Cabaret Festival. Peter Burdon looks at some program
highlights.
e early announcement of Bernadette Peters as the headline act in
this year's Cabaret Festival suggested
David Campbell was going to make a
fist of his new job.
world-wide as one of the great impressionists.
Impressions, too, in Canada's Cabaret
Decadanse, a blend of song and puppetry
that's little short of breathtaking. The
French duo Laurent Cirade and Paul
The gorgeous Ali McGregor, who runs
the vocal gamut from garish to grand, does
jazz injazz Cigarette and hits the piano bar
late at night.
There are new shows for Adelaide from
With the full program now available,
Staicu have won praise world-wide for
Kate Ceberano and Robyn Archer.
suspicions have been confirmed!
But when you've already got one of the
best Broadway performers ever, where do
Duel, a musical fight to the death from Bach
to the Beatles and beyond. More seriously,
you go?
Adelaide audiences will remember from
Miss Saigon, premieres his much-praised
Harry James Angus of Cat Empire fame
is a stunning country songwriter. And of
course, David Campbell himself in the
blockbuster Dad & Dave Show with dad
Jimmy Barnes and sister Mahalia.
David Campbell rather likes his
reputation as one of the camper straight
Well, you can start with Julie Wilson.
Still packing houses at the age of 84, Wilson
was singing in the '30s, got to Broadway
in the '40s, and that's just the start. The
dedicatee of Peter Allen's Quiet Please,
There's A Lad), On Stage, she's forged
a matchless reputation in cabaret, from
Cole Porter to Sondheim, from Gershwin
to Kurt Weill, and lots more besides. Or
the amazing cabaret songwriter John
Bucchino, who's written songs for a
veritable Who's Who including the likes of
Barbara Cook, Liza Minelli, Patti LuPone,
Michael Feinstein and Ann Hampton
Calloway. Or Lillias White, best known
to music theatre lovers for her amazing
performance in Cy Coleman's The Life.
And the international acts don't stop
there. Janet Klein is a fast-rising US
star, a vamp among vamps, a girl who
simply lives the '20s and '30s. There's also
Butterscotch, singer, pianist and-wait
for it-beat-boxing champion, who shot to
fame inAmerica's Got Talent in 2007.
Womadelaide stalwarts will remember
Argentina's Barbara Luna from way
back in 2001. Latin passion abounds in her
wonderful rhythmic performances.
And how good will it be to have Steven
Brindberg in Simply Barbra. Streisand
herself loves the man who's recognised
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handsome Kiwi Hayden The, whom
one-man show Generation whY?
David Campbell wanted to work harder
on the balance of international and homegrown acts, and he also wanted to keep the
new blood flowing.
Christie Whelan is raising a lot of
eyebrows with her show Tegrity: Britney
Spears Live in Cabaret, just like emerging
diva Elenoa Rokobara with
Chanteuse. The luscious-voiced Ursula
Yovich presents the world premiere of
Magpie Blues, a semi-biographical story
which travels from her father's Serbia to
R&B
men around, so who better to come up with
the marketing ploy of the decade, Thursgay
at the Cabaret Festival. On Thursday
nights the Festival Centre will be heaving
with glitz and glamour, never more so than
at Gentlemen Prefer Blokes with Courtney
Act and Trevor Ashley. Bingay is a fullyfledged AIDS charity bingo night, running
on both Thursdays in the Festival, and
hosted by Mitzi and Naomi. Bob Downe
has created a new show for Adelaide, a
tribute to the troop shows of yesteryear
in World War Bob. It Takes Two winner
her mother's Arnhem Land. Another name
to look for is Sheridan Harbridge, winner
of last year's Cabaret Showcase in Sydney,
with The Brontide: a seismic movement in
the intimate surrounds of the JB Room.
Julia Morris will be hysterical in Don't You
Know Who I Used To Be?
Not everything is on Thursdays,
For the unlikely act of the Festival - I
though, with the ever-marvellous Phil
predict a sensation - there's the impossibly
handsome Nick Christo in The Fabulous
Frances Faye in Australia, a tribute to one
of the great gay icons, performed `straight'
in a tuxedo!
It'll be great to contrast the new with
the-um-experienced! Lennon and
McCartney feature in Everybody's Got
Something to Hide from three stunning
Australian talents, Mark Jones, Melissa
Langton and our own Libby O'Donovan.
Scott teaming up with sweet young thing
Vincent Hooper in The 7lvink and the
Showgirl or-my personal must-see, even
in a Festival with Bernadette Peters in it-a
rare Cabaret Festival return performance
for The Carpenters of Kempsey.
We'll be featuring many of the acts in the
coming months, but if you like the look of
something, get in quick.
Details at adelaidecabaretfestival.com and
book at Bass.
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