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The Hon JACK SNELLING DOUGLAS GAUTIER AM FRANK FORD AM MINISTER FOR THE ARTS CEO & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CHAIR, ADVOCACY COMMITTEE ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL The Government is pleased to continue Welcome to Adelaide Cabaret Festival supporting Adelaide Cabaret Festival. 2016! Now in its 16th year, Adelaide’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival is a Each year, audiences embrace the premier winter festival is the largest fantastic celebration of the joys of warmth of cabaret in June, as Adelaide cabaret festival in the world and live performance through cabaret’s Festival Centre and Riverbank precinct a much loved Australian event, intimate interplay between the come alive for South Australians and attracting audiences and artists from performer and the audience. Fearless visitors to enjoy. around the country. artists invite you into their personal Adelaide Cabaret Festival shines a A very warm welcome to our new world to share their insights and light on our city and our state to an Adelaide Cabaret Festival co- passions – to laugh, to cry, to swoon international audience and plays Artistic Directors, Ali McGregor and and to dream. a significant part in reinforcing Eddie Perfect, who have created an The Festival is recognised worldwide Adelaide’s reputation as a great outstanding program that includes for the quality and quantity of its festival city. dazzling world premieres, remarkable adventurous programming. The This year’s Festival marks a changing collaborations and diverse works from atmosphere is fun, friendly and there of the guards at the artistic helm. Australia and all over the globe. is something for everyone. So spread Barry Humphries has passed the My sincere thanks to you, our loyal and the word at home and abroad to join baton to the next generation of enthusiastic Adelaide Cabaret Festival us in this unique, joyful experience in Australia’s finest cabaret performers: audience – those from Adelaide and beautiful Adelaide. Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect. I look those who travel to be part of the I thank my fellow Festival Advocacy forward to their program and I invite Festival. I’d also like to thank our Committee members. you to join me in enjoying the best sponsors for their ongoing and valued cabaret entertainment the world has support. And finally, my thanks to the to offer. many staff and volunteers who bring Adelaide Cabaret Festival to life.

adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au ALI McGREGOR EDDIE PERFECT

I realised very early in my first season at “What is cabaret?” this Festival in 2009, that I had found my After more than a decade of writing, heart. After performing with companies composing, performing (and now and festivals around the world the Adelaide curating) cabaret, I still wince at this Cabaret Festival was unlike anything I’d question. For me, it’s cabaret’s refusal ever experienced. to be defined that makes it such a Every year, I come back and witness genre- rewarding art-form. 1 defying performance art, intimate theatre, Ali and I could have used our first and voices that make my heart feel like it program to plant a defining flag in will burst into a thousand pieces. This year, the sand of WHAT CABARET IS, but Eddie and I have put together a program instead we’ve decided to explore WHAT of artists that we LOVE. A group of people CABARET COULD BE. We packed our who are taking this genre and developing bags, went searching, and this is what we it into the most visceral, poignant and found; a program full of the best cabaret sometimes anarchic art form. artists working in the world today Cabaret has a long history and an even who, like us, are fascinated with WHAT more exciting future. In this year’s program COMES NEXT. We consider our first we are celebrating everything that cabaret program a tribute to what the form can can be: political satire, theatre, songbook (and must) be; original, smart, intimate songs, storytelling, burlesque and comedy. and, above all else, immediate. We want We’ve also added a family gala to inspire a you to feel as electrified and moved as life-long love of songs, stories and laughter. we were upon first seeing the work of I’m so excited to share our inaugural season these artists. with the incredibly savvy theatre-going We can’t wait for you to see WHAT audience of my adopted creative home! COMES NEXT!

ALI McGREGOR & EDDIE PERFECT Artistic Directors, Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2016 Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

VARIETY GALA PERFORMANCE FAMILY GALA ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL HOSTED BY ALI McGREGOR & EDDIE PERFECT 2

Director Andy Packer Musical Director Vanessa Scammell

A GLAMOROUS NIGHT OF STRUT YOUR STUFF ON THE RED CARPET! SINGING STARS & SURPRISES Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Directors Ali McGregor (Jazzamatazz!) and Eddie Perfect The 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival opens (Playschool) cordially invite your whole family to with a glittering night of stories and songs. dress up and walk the red carpet! Join Artistic Directors Ali McGregor and The kids will love feeling special at our family- Eddie Perfect for a supercharged showcase friendly gala performance. Sample the of international and local stars flaunting their Festival’s finest performers offering jazzy beats, cabaret wares. interpretative dance, comedy and even roller- Offering the ultimate night of cabaret, you will skating-ukulele-playing-madness. be privy to a stunning preview of Ali and Eddie’s Suitable for all ages, featuring lashings of inaugural year at the helm of the Festival. cabaret glamour and a huge gulp of silliness that the little people in your life will adore. “High energy, fun and sophisticated” Broadway World 12 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE 10 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Sun : 1.30pm Adult $20.00 Fri : 7.30pm Adult $84.90 DUNSTAN FESTIVAL THEATRE Concession $79.90 PLAYHOUSE Adult A Res $25.00 1 hr 30 mins 1 hr Conc A Res $20.00 Premium $109.90 Suitable 16+ years Suitable 2 – 100 years Family (2+2) $80.00 Adult A Res $89.90 Warning: Conc A Res $84.90 Shane Reid Mature themes Adult B Res $79.90 Conc B Res $74.90 Claudio Raschella WORLD PREMIERE GreenRoom $39.95 ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents a Sydney Theatre Company production ADELAIDE PREMIERE THE WHARF REVUE CELEBRATING 15 YEARS AUS 3

Written and created by JONATHAN BIGGINS, DREW FORSYTHE and PHILLIP SCOTT

THERE AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A WHARF REVUE PARTY

Over 15 years and 21 shows, they’ve mercilessly 15 – 18 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE mocked all the usual suspects. We’ve watched Wed – Fri : 7.30pm Adult $44.90 Howard Tampa with refugees, Rudd give pennies Sat : 3pm from Kevin, Gillard refuse to be lectured by “that Concession $39.90 HER MAJESTY’S man”, “that man” scrap the carbon tax, stop THEATRE the boats and – um – get the budget back into Premium $59.90 surplus... But no one has been able to outplay, 1 hr 30 mins Adult A Res $49.90 Conc A Res $44.90 outwit or outlast The Wharf Revue. So, we’re Suitable 14+ years throwing a party and everyone’s invited. Adult B Res $39.90 Warning: Contains Conc B Res $34.90 This year, The Wharf Revue will be a parade of some coarse language past and present indignitaries – a who’s who of 21st century embarrassments, from the politicians Musical Director to the celebrities – all skewered on the stake Phillip Scott of seriously side-splitting satirical silliness and Lighting Designer Matthew Marshall musical mayhem. Featuring Who will make the cut? Who has the numbers Jonathan Biggins, Amanda Bishop, in the caucus room? It’s anyone’s guess. Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott

“The Revue is an equal opportunity satire – no political party is left unstoned, nor cultural shibboleth unmauled.” Stagenoise

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DITA VON TEESE BURLESQUE: STRIP, STRIP HOORAY! A LAVISH VARIETY PERFORMANCE WITH THE BIGGEST NAME IN BURLESQUE

Dita Von Teese’s variety show, Burlesque: Strip, 13 JUNE Strip Hooray! has sold out multiple dates in major Mon : 7.30pm cities across the US including Los Angeles, New FESTIVAL THEATRE York, New Orleans and San Francisco, and is now coming to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. 1 hr 30 mins This 90 minute spectacle will treat you to four Suitable 16+ years of Von Teese’s most impressive performances, Warning: Contains nudity including her new Swarovski Martini Glass, and her & haze effects most lavish show to date, ‘The Opium Den.’ Joining burlesque’s brightest star on stage is SUBSCRIBE & SAVE “the hardest working middle aged man in show business,” MC Murray Hill (Club Swizzle) along with Adult $104.90 a brilliant cast of Dita’s favourite burlesque acts Concession $99.90 from around the world. Premium $129.90 “Her attention to detail and embellished glitz Adult A Res $109.90 onstage is unparalleled… your eye cannot turn Conc A Res $104.90 away from the utter flawlessness of it all.” Adult B Res $89.90 The Los Angeles Times Conc B Res $84.90

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE BOBBY FOX 4 SEASONS IN 1 NIGHT 6 IRE AUS

AUSTRALIA’S ORIGINAL FRANKIE VALLI

Handpicked for the Australian production of 10 – 12 JUNE Jersey Boys by Frankie Valli himself, and after Fri : 6.30pm three years and over 850 performances, Sat : 3pm Bobby Fox returns to the stage taking you Sun : 7pm through his journey of all your favourite DUNSTAN Frankie Valli songs, including ‘Oh What a PLAYHOUSE Night!’, ‘Sherry’, ‘Walk Like a Man’, ‘Grease’, ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ and many more. 1 hr 10 mins Bobby shares his exclusive behind the scenes Suitable all ages insight into the world of Frankie Valli and Written by the Four Seasons. Swing to Bobby’s smooth Bobby Fox grooves and high altitude falsetto. & James Millar

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE “Fox’s remarkably Valli-like falsetto creates Adult $44.90 truly thrilling moments in the harmonies” Concession $39.90 Sydney Morning Herald Premium $59.90 "An amazingly tremendous Adult $49.90 musical gymnast!" Concession $44.90 Alan Jones 2GB John McRae

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE MEGAN HILTY IN CONCERT USA 7

“such ingenious sincerity, it felt as though she had lent you her rose-colored glasses” The New York Times

THE SHINING STAR OF STAGE AND SCREEN

After several critically acclaimed tours across the United States and Canada, star of stage, screen and music Megan Hilty is set to shine her light on the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Rising to prominence on Broadway for her musical roles, including her performance as 12 JUNE Glinda in Wicked and her portrayal of Sun : 8pm Doralee Rhodes in 9 to 5: The Musical, her voice has been featured in multiple Disney FESTIVAL and DreamWorks animations and she can THEATRE also be heard singing alongside Placido 1 hr 20 mins Domingo on his duet album. Suitable 12+ years With appearances on television’s Bones, The Closer, Desperate Housewives and CSI, SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Megan is best known for her starring role Adult $74.90 as Ivy Lynn on the musical-drama TV series Concession $69.90 Smash and her performance of the show’s original songs, including the Grammy Award- Premium: $99.90 nominated ‘Let Me Be Your Star’. Adult A Res $79.90 Hear Megan and her ensemble perform Conc A Res $74.90 selections that reflect her entire career, from Adult B Res $69.90 Wicked to Smash to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Conc B Res $64.90 and her renowned studio album, It Happens GreenRoom $34.95 All the Time.

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra present ADELAIDE PREMIERE THE COMPOSER IS DEAD By NATHANIAL STOOKEY with text by LEMONY SNICKET STARRING FRANK WOODLEY WITH THE ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 8 AUS

A PERPLEXING ORCHESTRAL ‘WHODUNNIT’

Uh oh, there’s dreadful news from the 11 JUNE concert hall: the composer is dead! Sat : 12 noon Meet the orchestra, solve the mystery FESTIVAL THEATRE and have a good laugh in this enchanting 50 mins introduction to classical music. Suitable 8+ years The Inspector (Woodley) will interrogate the 55 piece orchestra – starting with Originally commissioned by the San Francisco the strings and working all the way Symphony Orchestra to percussion. in 2006 This murder mystery will keep music fans of all ages enthralled and remember, SUBSCRIBE & SAVE no one leaves the Festival Theatre until Adult $44.90 the mystery is solved. Concession $39.90

“Woodley has so cleverly matured Adult A Res $49.90 into the most immature performer Conc A Res $44.90 in Australian comic history” Adult B Res $39.90 Courier Mail, Brisbane Conc B Res $34.90 Family A Res (2+2) $140.00 Family B Res (2+2) $100.00 Conductor Child under 12 $20.00 Brett Kelly

Garth Orlander

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra present ADELAIDE PREMIERE

TRIPOD WITH THE ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Orchestrated and Conducted by AUSTIN WINTORY THIS GAMING LIFE AUS FRA 9

“A wild journey through nerdery... as fun and vivid as the fantasy worlds it evoked.” The Age “To put it simply, This Gaming Life is a triumph of music, comedy and (awwww) friendship.” popculture-y.com

THREE MEN AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAMING

What’s the secret to Tripod’s success? Video games – lots and lots of video games. This all-new love letter to gaming offers hilarious insight into friendships, families and who gets to use the TV. Tripod’s obsession with games is so epic that only the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and 55 of its musicians will do. The boys push their genius for song- 11 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE writing to a whole new level – even Sat : 8pm Adult $74.90 diehard fans will be astounded. FESTIVAL Concession $69.90 An original opus orchestrated and THEATRE conducted by Grammy-nominated 1 hr 30 mins Premium $89.90 gaming composer wunderkind Austin Suitable all ages Adult A Res $79.90 Wintory (Journey, Assassins Creed Conc A Res $74.90 Syndicate). Game on! Adult B Res $69.90 James Penlidis Conc B Res $64.90 Written and Performed by Tripod GreenRoom $39.95 Directed by Andrew Pogson

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

HELEN DALLIMORE BARB JUNGR DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK HARD RAIN THE SONGS OF BOB DYLAN & LEONARD COHEN

WORLD AUSTRALIAN 10 PREMIERE AUS PREMIERE UK

A GOOD TIME WITH SOME BAD GIRLS A THOUSAND KISSES... BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

She was the original Glinda in the West End cast One of the finest interpreters of song, Barb Jungr, of Wicked opposite Idina Menzel and a constant returns to perform the works of song writing favourite on our small screen. Now, Helen Dallimore legends Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. pays tribute to the platinum pioneer performers who The British chanteuse has impressed critics led the musical way. and audiences around the world with insightful, Utilising little more than a blonde wig, a microphone intelligent interpretations of well-loved and a little complimentary lighting, Helen transforms songs combined with her powerful, witty into your favourite trailblazers of sex appeal belting performance style. out iconic songs. Tell your friends you’re spending Barb’s song selection for Hard Rain reflects her the evening with Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Dolly personal despair with the political times that Parton and Madonna. It’s kind of true! we live in – interpreting favourites that resonate “The evening belongs to the pure-voiced Helen as strongly today as they did when they were Dallimore… Tender and funny” originally written. The Advertiser (Masquerade) “Barb Jungr affirms her reputation as a 10 – 12 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE consummate Dylan interpreter.” Uncut Fri & Sat : 7pm Adult $39.90 Sun : 6.30pm Concession $34.90 12 – 13 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE BANQUET ROOM Sun & Mon : 3pm 1 hr 10 mins Premium $49.90 Adult $34.90 SPACE THEATRE Suitable 12+ years Adult $44.90 Concession $29.90 Warning: Contains Concession $39.90 1 hr 15 mins coarse language Suitable 16+ years Premium $49.90 Written by Helen Dallimore Adult $39.90 & haze effects & Richard Carroll Steve Ullathorne Concession $34.90 Marnya Rothe Directed by Richard Carroll

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

ROBYN ARCHER THE WEILL FILE DANCING ON THE VOLCANO WITH YOUR MASTER OF CEREMONIES ROBYN ARCHER

ADELAIDE WORLD PREMIERE AUS PREMIERE AUS 11

A MUSICAL HARMONY OF POLITICAL DISCORD EXPLORE BRECHT TO BROADWAY, AS WE CRACK OPEN THE WEILL FILE There was a moment in Germany, between the two great world wars, when cabaret came alive. Songwriters and poets described it as An opening weekend special homage to the ‘dancing on a volcano’, which then exploded so famous cross-genre composer Kurt Weill. rapidly into the worst excesses of Nazism. A prolific composer, innovator, social critic and Teaming up again with Michael Morley (piano) political radical during the Weimer Republic, Weill and George Butrumlis (accordion), Robyn lived through a tumultuous time in history and is offers a truly authentic interpretation of this best known for The Threepenny Opera. repertoire including a hearty dose of Brecht Featuring a medley of Festival artists invited and Eisler, Frederich Hollaender ‘Falling in Love to perform works from this legend’s diverse Again’, Wilhelm Grosz ‘Red Sails in the Sunset’, catalogue. This unique one off performance will Kurt Tucholsky, Frank Wedekind, Henrich Heine travel all the way from Weimar era Germany to and more. 1940s Broadway with one of the finest “Just when we were wondering what cabaret composers of the 20th century. is any more, along comes Robyn Archer to give us a splendid masterclass.” 13 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Barefoot Review Mon : 5.30pm Adult $54.90 DUNSTAN 11 – 12 JUNE Concession $49.90 SUBSCRIBE & SAVE PLAYHOUSE Sat : 3.30pm Adult $39.90 Premium $69.90 Sun : 7.30pm 1 hr 20 mins Concession $34.90 Suitable 16+ years Adult $59.90 SPACE THEATRE Concession $54.90 Warning: Contains 1 hr 10 mins Premium $49.90 coarse language Suitable 16+ years Adult $44.90 Concession $39.90

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

AMY G NAILED IT! ENTERSHAMEMENT ANDREW STRANO 12 USA AUS AUSTRALAN ADELAIDE PREMIERE PREMIERE

Written by Music by Loclan Amy Gordon Mackenzie-Spencer Directed by Lyrics by J S Fauquet Andrew Strano

SHIRLEY BASSEY MEETS JERRY LEWIS AT A A HEARTFELT, MEANINGFUL LOOK AT ROLLER-DISCO PARTY RELATIONSHIPS, HOGWARTS, INCEST AND PLANT GENITALIA You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, sometimes at the same time! Brooklyn’s Amy G is a mad mash-up of physical, musical, stand-up and improvisational You’ll delight in this celebration of the insane, comedy that will leave you in absolute stitches. brutal and hilarious things we do when we’re in love – or falling out of love. Nailed It! is about Inspired by Carol Burnett, Liza Minelli, Buster when you are (or really aren’t) nailing it. Keaton, Julie Andrews and even The Muppet Show, Entershamement is slapstick Diva heaven, Featuring the Green Room Award-winning full of hilarious song-and-dance numbers, roller- original songs of Mackenzie-Spencer and Strano, skates, a live chicken, and genuine human frailty. Nailed It! reunites the team with director and Amy G is comedy gold with a golden voice. long-time collaborator Casey Gould to bring you a show about love, loss and even coming to That’s Entershamement! terms with your innate solitude. “A Tour-de-Force! Imaginative, offbeat, inspired, “Hysterically funny and poignantly touching” original, daring and exhilarating!”      The Theatre Nerd To Do List London 10 – 11 JUNE 10 – 11 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Fri : 6.45pm Fri & Sat : 7pm Adult $39.90 Adult $24.90 Concession $34.90 Sat : 3.15pm SPACE THEATRE Concession $19.90 ARTSPACE 1 hr 15 mins Premium $49.90 1 hr Premium $34.90 Suitable 12+ yrs Adult $44.90 Adult $29.90 Suitable 16+ yrs Warning: Contains Concession $39.90 Concession $24.90 coarse language GreenRoom $22.45 Warning: Contains & haze effects Olivia Rutherford coarse language Kurt Sneddon, Blueprint Studios

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE RHONDA BURCHMORE AND TREVOR ASHLEY TWINS AUS 13

“Burchmore is an icon of her own right. Simply marvelous” Arts Review “Ashley's vocal power is a thing of splendour” The Age

NO ONE CAN TELL THEM APART!

Bold, brassy, raunchy and raucous, John McRae Burchmore and Ashley join forces for a once in a lifetime cabaret event. Trash and Ruda are icons of outrageous glitz and glamour, reinventing the likes of Sonny and Cher, Judy and Liza, Kermit and Miss Piggy. They’ll prove you may not need two to tango, but it’s a lot more fun! Great duets, powerful ballads and brilliant comedy that will have you laughing and screaming for more. Legends in their own lunchtime, they’ve sung every song ever written and consumed enough Champagne to sink a battleship. It’s double the giggles and double the grins and double the trouble when you’re blessed with twins!

10 – 12 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Fri & Sun : 9.30pm Adult $44.90 Sat : 9pm Concession $39.90 DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE Written by Phil Scott, Trevor Ashley, Premium $59.90 Rhonda Burchmore and Thomas Jaspers 1 hr 10 mins Adult $49.90 Directed and Choreographed by Suitable 12+ years Concession $44.90 Cameron Mitchell

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

DIE ROTEN PUNKTE ALI MCGREGOR EUROSMASH! DECADENCE

ADELAIDE PREMIERE 14 AUS GER AUS

ADELAIDE PREMIERE

WILD ROCK-UND-ROLL CABARET CABARET PAR-EXCELLENCE

Fresh from their sell-out world tour, Berlin’s A decade after joining the sideshow cabaret Prince and Princess of art rock and Europop, sensation, La Clique, Ali McGregor is an Otto & Astrid return to Adelaide for the first international sensation and returns to Adelaide time since supporting Amanda Palmer in 2013. as co-Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Hilarious, catchy and award-winning pop songs Festival. are constantly interrupted by the squabbling Join Ali in her own show as she guides you of dysfunctional siblings in the most irreverent, through torch songs, jazz reworkings and trashy tantrum-loving gig you are likely to see at this mash-ups with the consummate ease of cabaret year’s Cabaret Festival. royalty, accompanied by award-winning pianist Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of the Conchords and long-time collaborator Sam Keevers. say, “Hallo!” to your new favourite band. Hear the voice that The Scotsman declares, “transports you to a different plane”.      “ All you really need to know is this: they’re hilarious.” “By turns glamorous, sexy, intimate CBC Canada and hilarious”      The Age 10 – 12 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Fri – Sun : 10pm Adult $39.90 11 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Concession $34.90 SPACE THEATRE Sat : 6.30pm Adult $44.90 DUNSTAN 1 hr 10 mins Premium $49.90 Concession $39.90 PLAYHOUSE Suitable 12+ years Adult $44.90 Warning: Contains Concession $39.90 1 hr 10 mins Premium $59.90 Adult $49.90 coarse language, strobe GreenRoom $22.45 Suitable 12+ yrs lighting & haze effects Concession $44.90 Written by Warning: Contains Andrew Wuttke Die Roten Punkte coarse language Alan Moyle

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

RUDI’S THE RINSE CYCLE MOTHER’S RUIN: A CABARET ABOUT GIN HEW PARHAM MAEVE MARSDEN & LIBBY WOOD 15

WORLD PREMIERE AUS WORLD PREMIERE AUS

VAUDEVILLE THROUGH THE WRINGER HEAVING HARMONIES AND TIPSY CANDOUR

Wash your sins away as Rudi strips cabaret bare Explore the history of gin through story and song. with his passions for the classics. From potty Meet barmaids, bootleggers and master songs by Porter to vile songs by Weill – Rudi has distillers. Stumble and soar through tales of been compared to Ute Lemper impersonating love and women, gin and secrets as you travel Chaplin in a ute with a five-cylinder larynx. through 18th century London, a few New York Local clown hero Hew Parham burst onto speakeasies, the Australian bush and the the cabaret scene with the award-winning, jungles of Peru. never-ending Berlin Cabaret. Since then he has Have a gin with two of Australia’s rising cabaret impressed audiences around the globe with his stars. Mother’s Ruin moves from misery to manic comic creations, Giovanni and Schmoo. vaudeville in a moment, with music by Amy “Parham is a fascination and a delight, Winehouse, Nina Simone, Merle Haggard, regardless of which character he plays. Kurt Weil, Jessie J and more. He’s engaging, crazy, laugh-out-loud funny” “Comic cabaret gold.” Glamadelaide.com.au The Scotsman Patrick Boland 11 – 13 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE 10 – 12 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Sat : 9.15pm Adult $24.90 Fri & Sun : 9.15pm Sun : 6.45pm Adult $24.90 Concession $19.90 Sat : 6.45pm Concession $19.90 Mon : 3.15pm ARTSPACE ARTSPACE Premium $34.90 1 hr Premium $34.90 Adult $29.90 Adult $29.90 1 hr 5 mins Suitable 16+ yrs Concession $24.90 Concession $24.90 Suitable 12+ yrs Warning: Contains Directed by Sarah Dunn Warning: Contains coarse language, violent Musical Direction by coarse language Sophie Armstrong themes/imagery Jeremy Brennan

OPENING WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents a Flying Penguin and Zephyr Quartet production

Compositions by THE JULIET LETTERS FEATURING ZEPHYR QUARTET Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet STARRING MICHAELA BURGER, CAMERON GOODALL, JUDE HENSHALL & JAMIE JEWELL

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HAUNTING BRECHT / WEILL STYLE COLLABORATION

An acclaimed and unforgettable song cycle 17 – 18 JUNE that meditates on the dying art of letter Fri : 6.30pm writing and very nature of correspondence. Sat : 9pm Initially released as a studio album and DUNSTAN performed live in 1993 by celebrity creators, PLAYHOUSE Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet, The 1 hr Juliet Letters sits fascinatingly somewhere between the pop and classical worlds. Suitable 16+ years Warning: Contains Now brought to the cabaret world in this coarse language, new interpretation, an all-star South violent themes/ Australian cast promise an inspired musical imagery journey – full of dramatic power, rich narrative, political insight and personal revelation. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Adult $34.90 ADELAIDE PREMIERE & EXCLUSIVE Concession $29.90 Premium $49.90 Directed by David Mealor Adult $39.90 Musical Direction by Carol Young Concession $34.90 Design by Kathryn Sproul Lighting and AV Design by Chris Petredis Heath Britton Zephyr Quartet image

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents a Shane Anthony and Critical Stages production ADELAIDE PREMIERE SONGS FOR THE FALLEN SHERIDAN HARBRIDGE with BEN GERRARD, GARTH HOLCOMBE & STEVEN KREAMER AUS 17

AWARD WINNING, SOPHISTICATED DEBAUCHERY

It’s 1847. Deep inside a Parisian boudoir, reclining 15 – 16 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE on her wide circular bed, the stricken, debt- Wed : 7pm, Thu : 9pm mired Marie Duplessis orders one last bottle of Adult $34.90 DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE Champagne before her untimely, tragic death. Concession $29.90 1 hr 30 mins Sheridan Harbridge’s personification straddles the Premium $49.90 centuries and traces Marie’s poignant evolution Suitable 16+ years Warning: Contains coarse Adult $39.90 from street waif to ruinously expensive celebrity Concession $34.90 courtesan as Paris’s original party girl. language, nudity & strobe lighting GreenRoom $19.95 This is the wild and hilarious tale of a woman who knew one thing: good girls don’t make history. Louis Dillon Savage You’re invited to the decadent final party.

“Songs for the Fallen is a hilarious romp. The singing is exquisite, the performances are divine.”     ArtsHub

Written by Music by Costumes designed Sheridan Harbridge Basil Hogios by Lisa Mimmocchi Directed by Set designed by Lighting designed by Shane Anthony Michael Hankin Alexander Berlage

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE JOE STILGOE SONGS ON FILM 18 UK

Jordan McLachlan

THE GOLDEN TUNES FROM THE SILVER SCREEN

Internationally acclaimed singer, pianist 17 – 19 JUNE and songwriter Joe Stilgoe pays tribute Fri : 6.15pm to 100 years of music that aided and Sat : 7.30pm abetted the legendary status of Hollywood Sun : 3pm & 6.30pm cinema. From An American in Paris to The FESTIVAL THEATRE Apartment, Casablanca to Catch Me if You STAGE Can, Joe and his remarkable band perform songs written for and inspired by some of 1 hr the greatest films of the last century. Suitable all ages Virtuosic musicianship, breath-taking theatricality combine with witty SUBSCRIBE & SAVE improvisation for big screen fanatics. Adult $49.90 Concession $44.90 “Sheer joy”      Matt Humphrey The Scotsman Premium $59.90 Adult $54.90 “Dapper, handsome and quick witted... Concession $49.90 and gifted with dazzling digits”      The Times “A jazz pianist and songwriter of considerable talent and no less charm” The Guardian

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE MS. LISA FISCHER AND GRAND BATON

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THE LEGENDARY BACKUP SINGER TAKES CENTRE STAGE

Lots of people have heard Lisa Fischer’s voice – 18 – 19 JUNE she has been a back-up singer for a multitude Sat : 6.30pm of famous artists, including Luther Vandross, Sun : 3pm & 7pm Chaka Khan and Tina Turner to name a few, DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE and has toured with The Rolling Stones since 1989, where her popularity with the fans has 1 hr 10 mins brought her to routinely duet with Mick Jagger Suitable all ages on several songs when performing on stage. Many were also moved by her personal story and soaring voice in the Oscar-winning 2013 documentary feature Twenty Feet From Stardom. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Ms. Fischer now takes centre stage, revisiting Adult $64.90 iconic songs etched into her heart including Concession $59.90 tunes ‘Gimme Shelter’, ‘Wild Horses’, ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’, ‘Fever’ and her Grammy- Premium $79.90 winning original ‘How Can I Ease the Pain’. Adult $69.90 Concession $64.90 She has the ideal co-conspirators in Grand Baton, a virtuosic psychedelic soul trio that Edward Gadjel & lays a rhythmic magic carpet under her feet. Djeneba Aduayom

“She inhabits her songs, taking listeners on a journey filled with generous heart, soul and spirituality” Star Tribune

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents WORLD PREMIERE EMMA PASK A LATIN FIESTA 20 AUS

DISCOVER YOUR LATIN LOVE WITH HIGH ENERGY JAZZ FUSION

Award-winning vocalist Emma Pask 16 – 18 JUNE is one of Australia’s favourite voices Thu : 6.30pm in Jazz. Fri : 8.30pm Combining Spanish, Portuguese and Sat : 4pm English vocals, Emma takes you on FESTIVAL THEATRE a vivid musical voyage deep into hot STAGE Latin America. 1 hr 10 mins Emma’s band is jam-packed with glorious horns and full percussion Suitable all ages that will get your heart pumping and your hips swinging! SUBSCRIBE & SAVE An evening of luscious Latin jazz that Adult $44.90 will make you swoon. Concession $39.90

Premium $54.90 “Whilst it’s fashionable to be a Adult $49.90 jazz singer these days, she’s the Concession $44.90 real thing...” James Morrison AM

Kurt Sneddon Photography

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE HARRY SHEARER AND JUDITH OWEN THIS INFERNAL RACKET USA 21

A MARRIAGE OF MIRTH AND MELODY

He is a comedy writer-actor who voices 16 – 17 JUNE some of our favourite characters in The Thu : 6.30pm Simpsons and is equally famed for his role in Fri : 9pm the cult mockumentary This is Spinal Tap. DUNSTAN She is a soulful singer and confessional PLAYHOUSE songwriter who has collaborated with Ruby Wax and toured with Roxy Music’s 1 hr 10 mins Bryan Ferry. Suitable 16+ years Her approach is empathic and cautionary Warning: whilst his is merciless ridicule. They met, Contains coarse language married and make musical mirth. Segundo and Pedro Sklar Leland Join Harry and Judith and their legendary studio musicians as they mix, match, and Written and Directed by butt heads with their musical takes on life Harry Shearer and the noise that surrounds and and Judith Owen SUBSCRIBE & SAVE consumes us all. Musical Direction by Harry Shearer Adult $54.90 and Judith Owen Concession $49.90 “Few have come close to matching Leland Sklar – bass the emotional insights and Premium $69.90 compositional brilliance of Carole Pedro Segundo – percussion CJ Vanston – keyboard Adult $59.90 King and James Taylor.” Concession $54.90 The Independent UK Alessia Laudoni

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE BRIDGET EVERETT POUND IT 22 USA

BOLD, BRASH AND DELICIOUSLY BAWDY

Loved in downtown New York, Bridget 16 – 18 JUNE Everett brings her funny yet gut-wrenching Thu : 9pm and outrageous performance to the Fri : 10.45pm Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Sat : 9.45pm This ferocious talent has developed a cult FESTIVAL THEATRE following with her edgy, sexed-up, punk STAGE rock cabaret. 1 hr Each performance is as explosive as it is unpredictable. One of the funniest people Suitable 16+ years in New York, Everett’s onscreen credits Warning: include Inside Amy Schumer, Two Broke Contains coarse Girls, Sex And The City and Trainwreck. language & nudity

“Multiply the mouthy, flesh-jiggling SUBSCRIBE & SAVE early Bette Midler by one hundred, Adult $39.90 give her the super-plus-size figure Concession $34.90 and fashion sense of Divine, the John Waters Diva, and the manners of a Premium $49.90 Flintstone, and you’ve got a rough Adult $44.90 CAUTION CAUTION CAUTIONapproximation CAUTION CAUTIONof Bridget Everett…” CAUTION CAUTIONConcession CAUTION $39.90 CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION New York Times GreenRoom $22.45

Musical Direction by Matt Ray

Todd Oldham

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LEAVE YOUR PHONES ON... AND YOUR JUDGEMENTS OFF

Glam Miss B presents a deliberately lo-fi, 16 – 18 JUNE silly and audience-centric bag of fun. Thu : 9.30pm You’ll be divided into teams and pitted Fri & Sat : 10pm against each other based on mobile phone SPACE THEATRE choice: iPhone v Others. 1 hr 10 mins, or longer... Compete for points based on a no-rules it’s up to you! system, play hilarious games using smart Suitable 16+ years phones, pop culture and sheer adrenalin. Warning: Bring-Briiiiiiing your Phones! Contains coarse Everyone’s a winner! You’ll do anything language, nudity, for points... #mbgs. haze effects – anything may happen!

“Inventive, funny and shrewdly GA Downstairs $34.90 Lee Faircloth, subversive of commercial GA Upstairs $29.90 Clever Prime Photography entertainment. It’s also utterly daft – unpretentious, unruly, Dave Pickens uplifting” The Scotsman “How something this much fun hasn’t been criminalised yet is a minor miracle”      CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTIONThe Londonist CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION

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LOVE AND DEATH FRIENDS OF BARBRA THE SONGS OF JIM STEINMAN THE WAY WE WEREN’T

ADELAIDE PREMIERE ADELAIDE PREMIERE 24 AUS AUS

Featuring Luke Gallagher Written by Michael Toby Francis Smallwood Directed by Nigel Neil Gooding Ubrihien Musical direction & arrangements by Andrew Worboys Production design by Lauren Peters

INTOXICATING ROCK COVERS BY A TRUE ORIGINAL SONGS IN THE KEY OF BABS

Toby Francis (Blokelahoma!, Dogfight) returns Introducing the internationally renowned to Adelaide Cabaret Festival with his award- mega-cabaret boyband hand-picked by Barbra winning cabaret. Lifting the curtain on ‘Bat Out Streisand herself to keep her music alive for of Hell’ composer Jim Steinman as he struggles generations to come. to complete his stage adaptation of Peter Pan – Besides reviving Barbra’s iconic power duets, this a rock opera entitled Neverland. award-winning trio breathe new life into classics Boasting a collection of some of the biggest rock by The Spice Girls, Luciano Pavarotti, The Brady songs of all time, Love and Death is an epic yet Bunch, Kermit the Frog and many others. intimate glimpse into the life of one of music’s Combining comic silliness with musical know- greatest treasures. Set against the backdrop of how, and wrapped up in exquisite arrangements unpaid royalties and lost friendships. by Nigel Ubrihien, no megastar is beyond resuscitation – least of all Ms Streisand herself. “What Francis has done with a big bunch of Steinman songs is intoxicating.” “This is great cabaret, skewering the The Australian enthusiasms that greet Barbra’s every move!” Time Out New York 18 – 19 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE 18 – 19 JUNE Sat : 4pm Adult $39.90 SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Sun : 8pm Concession $34.90 Sat : 6.45pm Adult $24.90 SPACE THEATRE Sun : 4.15pm & 7.15pm Concession $19.90 1 hr 10 mins Premium $49.90 ARTSPACE Adult $44.90 Suitable 16+ yrs 1 hr Premium $34.90 Concession $39.90 Adult $29.90 Warning: Contains GreenRoom $22.45 Suitable 12+ yrs coarse language Concession $24.90 & haze effects Kurt Sneddon, Blueprint Studios James Penlidis Photography SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents

CABARET DINNER Hosted by EDDIE PERFECT THE OLD & THE NEW 25

HIGH CULINARY ART PAIRED WITH HIGH KICKING ENTERTAINMENT

This year’s dinner features a menu designed by Adelaide’s renowned father and son chefs, Peter and Chris Jarmer, offering you a taste of the past and the future. This generational gustation gets even better with matched wines from Barossa Valley favourite, Grant Burge. Celebrate the old and new with a three-course extravaganza for the senses balanced with Cabaret Festival highlights completing a nourishing menu of fine food and entertainment. All you have to do is find a date!

“A dinner show, like a dinner dance, seems to belong to generations past. But when both the entertainment and the dining measure up, and even better are presented as a seamless, thematic package, the idea of a one-stop-shop beats wandering between venues on a winter night” Adelaide Now

15 JUNE ALL $169.90 Wed : 6.30pm arrival Food & beverage inclusive for a 7pm start 3 hrs BANQUET ROOM Suitable 18+ yrs Claudio Raschella Warning: Contains coarse language

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The Composer 12 noon is Dead FT 50m p8 Family Gala 1.30pm DPH 1hr p2 Bobby Fox Barb Jungr Barb Jungr 3pm DPH 1hr 10m p6 ST 1hr 15m p10 ST 1hr 15m p10 Nailed It! Rudi’s the 3.15pm A 1hr p12 Rinse Cycle

A 1hr 5m p15 SECOND WEEK OPENING WEEK Robyn Archer 3.30pm ST 1hr 10m p11 4.30pm Songwriters Series Art Stories PB 1hr p45 PB 1hr p45 The Weill File 5.30pm DPH 1hr 20m p11 Piano Bar Stage PB p45 6.30pm Bobby Fox Ali McGregor Helen Dallimore DPH 1hr 10m p6 DPH 1hr 10m p14 BR 1hr 10m p10 6.45pm Nailed It! Mother’s Ruin Rudi’s the A 1hr p12 A 1hr p15 Rinse Cycle A 1hr 5m p15 Amy G Amy G Bobby Fox 7pm ST 1hr 15m p12 ST 1hr 15m p12 DPH 1hr 10m p6 Helen Dallimore Helen Dallimore BR 1hr 10m p10 BR 1hr 10m p10 7.30pm Variety Gala Robyn Archer Dita Von Teese FT 1hr 30m p2 ST 1hr 10m p11 FT 1hr 30m p4 Tripod Megan Hilty CALENDAR 8pm FT 1hr 30m p9 FT 1hr 20m p7 Piano Bar Stage + DJ Rhonda Burchmore 9pm PB p45 & Trevor Ashley DPH 1hr 10m p13 Mother’s Ruin Rudi’s the Mother’s Ruin 9.15pm A 1hr p15 Rinse Cycle A 1hr p15 A 1hr 5m p15 Rhonda Burchmore Piano Bar Stage + DJ Piano Bar Stage + DJ 9.30pm & Trevor Ashley PB 45 PB p45 DPH 1hr 10m p13 Rhonda Burchmore & Trevor Ashley DPH 1hr 10m p13 Backstage Club – Backstage Club – Backstage Club – 10pm Amy G & Amy G & Amy G & Miss Behave Miss Behave Miss Behave BR 2hrs p43 BR 2hrs p43 BR 2hrs p43 Die Roten Punkte Die Roten Punkte Die Roten Punkte ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2016 FESTIVAL ADELAIDE CABARET ST 1hr 10m p14 ST 1hr 10m p14 ST 1hr 10m p14 TUE 14 6.45pm Movie Nights: Betty Blokk Buster Follies DPH 2hrs p43

Country Arts SA and Adelaide Festival Centre present ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL

For more information and bookings, visit countryarts.org.au

Hitting the road again this May with a superb array of hand-picked talent bringing some of the most outrageous, raw, fun and fierce performances around. THURSDAY 5 MAY, 2016 • 7.30pm Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre, Mount Gambier SATURDAY 7 MAY, 2016 • 7.30pm Chaffey Theatre, Renmark WED 15 THU 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19

ABC 891 with 2pm Sonya Feldhoff PB 2hrs p45 The Wharf Revue Joe Stilgoe 3pm MON 20 HMT 1hr 30m p3 FTS 1hr p18 6.45pm Ms. Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton Michelle’s Story DPH 1hr 10m p19 & 20 Feet Sammy J SECOND WEEK 3.30pm From Stardom ST 1hr p31 DPH 2hrs 45m TUE 21 p43 Emma Pask 27 4pm FTS 1hr 10m p20 6.45pm Love and Death Labyrinth ST 1hr 10m p24 DPH 1hr 55m p43 Insights Workshop 4.15pm BR 1hr p45 Friends of Barbra A 1hr p24 Songwriters Series 4.30pm PB 1hr p45 Piano Bar Stage 5pm PB p45 GreenRoom 6pm Speakeasy WG 1hr p45 Joe Stilgoe 6.15pm FTS 1hr p18 Cabaret Dinner Emma Pask The Juliet Letters Ms. Lisa Fischer Joe Stilgoe 6.30pm BR 3hrs p25 FTS 1hr 10m p20 DPH 1hr p16 and Grand Baton FTS 1hr p18 Harry Shearer DPH 1hr 10m p19 CALENDAR and Judith Owen CALENDAR DPH 1hr 10m p21 Hue Blanes Hue Blanes Friends of Barbra 6.45pm A 1hr p32 A 1hr p32 A 1hr p24 7pm Songs for the Fallen Dave Hobson Dave Hobson Dave Hobson Ms Lisa Fischer DPH 1hr 30m p17 and Colin Lane and Colin Lane and Colin Lane and Grand Baton BR 1hr 10m p29 BR 1hr 10m p29 BR 1hr 10m p29 DPH 1hr 10m p19 Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho Queen of Soho ST 1hr 10m p30 ST 1hr 10m p30 ABC 891 with Peter Goers PB 3hrs p45 John Thorn Friends of Barbra 715pm A 1hr 10m p32 A 1hr p24 Margaret Thatcher The Wharf Revue The Wharf Revue Joe Stilgoe Lance Horne 7.30pm Queen of Soho HMT 1hr 30m p3 HMT 1hr 30m p3 FTS 1hr p18 BR 1hr 10m p33 ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2016 FESTIVAL ADELAIDE CABARET 2016 FESTIVAL ADELAIDE CABARET ST 1hr 10m p30 Sammy J The Wharf Revue ST 1hr p31 HMT 1hr 30m p3 Love and Death 8pm ST 1hr 10m p24 Emma Pask 8.30pm FTS 1hr 10m p20 Bridget Everett Harry Shearer The Juliet Letters 9pm FTS 1hr p22 and Judith Owen DPH 1hr p16 Songs for the Fallen DPH 1hr 10m p21 Piano Bar Stage + DJ DPH 1hr 30m p17 PB p45 John Thorn John Thorn Hue Blanes 9.15pm A 1hr 10m p32 A 1hr 10m p32 A 1hr p32 Backstage Club – 9.30pm Jan van de Stool BR 2hrs p43 Miss Behave’s Gameshow ST 1hr 10m p23 Piano Bar Stage + DJ Bridget Everett 9.45pm PB p45 FTS 1hr p22 10pm Piano Bar Stage Backstage Club – Backstage Club – PB p45 Jan van de Stool Jan van de Stool BR 2hrs p43 BR 2hrs p43 Miss Behave’s Miss Behave’s Gameshow Gameshow ST 1hr 10m p23 ST 1hr 10m p23 Bridget Everett 10.45pm FTS 1hr p22 WED 22 THU 23 FRI 24 SAT 25

Class of Cabaret 1pm ST 1hr 10m p44 Tom Burlinson 2pm FT 2hrs p34 Debora Krizak 2.45pm A 1hr 10m p36 Kate Cebrano and 3pm

FINAL WEEK Paul Grabowsky DPH 1hr 10m p35 4pm Class of Cabaret ST 1hr 10m p44 4.30pm Songwriters Series PB 1hr p45 GreenRoom 6pm Speakeasy WG 1hr p45 In the Balance Rumour Has It Rumour Has It 6.30pm DPH 1hr p38 DPH 1hr 15m p39 DPH 1hr 15m p39 6.45pm BeMused Debora Krizak Dash Kruck A 1hr 10m p44 A 1hr 10m p36 A 1hr 5m p36 In the Balance Southern Belles Tom Burlinson Yana Alana 7pm DPH 1hr p38 BR 1hr 10m p37 FT 2hrs p34 BR 1hr p37 Yana Alana BR 1hr p37 715pm BeMused A 1hr 10m p44 Southern Belles Sven Ratzke Sven Ratzke Sven Ratzke 7.30pm BR 1hr 10m p37 ST 1hr 10m p40 ST 1hr 10m p40 ST 1hr 10m p40 Sven Ratzke ST 1hr 10m p40 CALENDAR 8pm The Last Galah FT 1hr 30m p42 Rumour Has It Kate Ceberano and Kate Ceberano and 9pm DPH 1hr 15m p39 Paul Grabowsky Paul Grabowsky Piano Bar Stage DPH 1hr 10m p35 DPH 1hr 10m p35 PB p45 Piano Bar Stage + DJ PB p45 Dash Kruck Dash Kruck Debora Krizak 9.15pm A 1hr 5m p36 A 1hr 5m p36 A 1hr 10m p36 Backstage Club – Piano Bar Stage + DJ 9.30pm Libby O’Donovan PB p45 BR 2hrs p43 The Birds The Birds Backstage Club – Backstage Club – 10pm ST 1hr 20m p41 ST 1hr 20m p41 Libby O’Donovan Libby O’Donovan BR 2hrs p43 BR 2hrs p43 The Birds The Birds ST 1hr 20m p41 ST 1hr 20m p41 ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2016 FESTIVAL ADELAIDE CABARET

CALENDAR LEGEND VENUES Festival Theatre FT Festival Theatre Stage FTS Dunstan Playhouse DPH Space Theatre ST Artspace A adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au Banquet Room BR Piano Bar PB FOLLOW US Her Majesty’s Theatre HMT Adelaide Cabaret Festival

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PROGRAM DISCLAIMER Adelaide Festival Centre respects your privacy and meets Government policy requirements. Every effort has been made to ensure performance dates, times, prices and other information contained herein are correct at time of publication. Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE DAVID HOBSON & COLIN LANE IN TAILS AUS 29

“Is there anything David Hobson can’t do?" The Sunday Age “So funny, I cried” The Age (Colin Lane)

THE ODD COUPLE COLLIDE

What happens when a comedian and an opera singer swap roles? David Hobson and Colin Lane have been friends for 25 years and from time to time they have thought, “Gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have a go at what that guy does?” So 16 – 18 JUNE here’s their chance to see whether the grass is a Thu, Fri & Sat : 7pm little greener. BANQUET ROOM They sing. They dance. 1 hr 10 mins They sing and dance. Suitable 16+ years Perhaps they might even sing and dance together… SUBSCRIBE & SAVE and oh, they tell jokes. Adult $39.90 Bear witness to a unique Concession $34.90 and hilarious experiment that promises to thrill and Premium $49.90 beguile you. Adult $44.90 Concession $39.90

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE & ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE MARGARET THATCHER QUEEN OF SOHO

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MISCHIEVOUS POLITICAL PANTOMIME!

We gave them Kylie, now the UK are 15 – 17 JUNE sending us a superstar of their own. Wed : 7.30pm After sell-out seasons at the Edinburgh Thu & Fri : 7pm Fringe and in London’s glittering West SPACE THEATRE End, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho 1 hr 10 mins is coming to visit her (soon to be) adoring fans down under. Suitable 16+ years Warning: Contains How did the Iron Lady get lost in the gay coarse language, bars of Soho and accidentally become a simulated smoking & cabaret superstar – and will she change haze effects her mind about the homophobic law, Section 28, before it’s too late? SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Adult $39.90 Mihaela Bodlovic “Glorious camp with political punch“ Concession $34.90 The Times Premium $49.90 “A rollicking good laugh, no matter Adult $44.90 what side of the political spectrum Concession $39.90 you sit on“      GreenRoom $22.45 Attitude Co-created by Jon Brittain & Matt Tedford

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents

SAMMY J THE SAMMY J SONGBOOK AUSUK 31

58KG OF PURE ENTERTAINMENT

Star of ABC TV’s musical comedy Sammy J & Randy in Rickett’s Lane, Sammy J has been nominated for three ARIA awards and performed to sell-out crowds around “An endlessly the world. creative talent“ Time Out London Now he’s wheeling his keyboard to Adelaide Cabaret Festival and busting out his favourite songs. Randy is locked in his suitcase so Sammy’s finally got the microphone to himself. Smart, catchy, witty, filthy, and hugely entertaining – Sammy J is one of the most exciting performers on the comedy scene.

18 – 19 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Sat : 7.30pm Adult $34.90 Sun : 3.30pm Concession $29.90 SPACE THEATRE 1 hr Premium $44.90 Suitable 16+ years Adult $39.90 Warning: Contains Concession $34.90 coarse language GreenRoom $19.95

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

HUE BLANES JOHN THORN AND THE MOON BACKGROUND BOY

ADELAIDE 32 AUS PREMIERE AUS

Written & performed by John Thorn Directed by Sally Bourne

THE MASTER OF MELANCHOLY CABARET’S FAVOURITE MUSICAL DIRECTOR TAKES CENTRE STAGE Conspiracy theorists believe the moon is a construction of man. And that when you fly to it, you discover it’s just a two-dimensional After years supporting some of the world’s cardboard cut out. Hue Blanes and the Moon isn’t finest cabaret performers including Meow funny because it’s serious. It isn’t original because Meow, Bob Downe and Caroline Nin, every story has been told. And the songs won’t multi-award winning singer-song writer John move you because all hearts have died. Thorn deservedly steps into the spotlight. Penned and performed by the virtuosic Hue Taking the lead on vocals and piano, John is Blanes and directed by Travis Cotton, this joined on stage with his talented daughter master of melancholy will break your heart. Bonnie and special guests. Featuring witty Watch him take on the Pope, the Queen works, bittersweet ballads and songs inspired and of course God. by the 1920s, John resembles such greats as Randy Newman and Hoagy Carmichael. “Blanes is both a master of the piano and a “Thorn’s rich, deep voice whisking us away gifted composer and singer” into a Gatsby-esque world... a great sense of Eddie Perfect Australian humour... an exceptional show” Planet Arts 16 – 18 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Ponch Hawkes Thu & Fri : 6.45pm Adult $24.90 15 – 17 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Sat : 9.15pm Concession $19.90 Wed : 7.15pm Adult $24.90 ARTSPACE Thu & Fri : 9.15pm Premium $34.90 Concession $19.90 1 hr Adult $29.90 ARTSPACE Suitable 16+ yrs Concession $24.90 1 hr 10 mins Premium $34.90 Adult $29.90 Directed by Travis Cotton Suitable all ages Wilk Concession $24.90 SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE LANCE HORNE INTERNATIONAL COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE FIRST THINGS LAST ALBUM LAUNCH USA 33

VIRTUOSIC FLAIR FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S BEST

The insanely talented, Emmy award- 19 JUNE winning composer, lyricist, performer, Sun : 7.30pm producer and music director Lance Horne BANQUET ROOM will bring his signature cabaret flair to this year’s Festival. 1 hr 10 mins Taking time off from creating and Suitable all ages collaborating with the likes of Alan Cumming, Rufus Wainwright, Pink Martini, SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Liza Minnelli and Kylie Minogue, Lance Adult $39.90 will premiere new works from upcoming Concession $34.90 projects and celebrate the Australian launch of his album First Things Last with Premium $49.90 special surprise guests. Adult $44.90 This is a unique opportunity to experience Concession $39.90 the styling of a heart-on-his-sleeve singer- INSIGHTS songwriter up close and personal. JD Urban WORKSHOP with Lance Horne Thu : 4.15pm 1 hr See page 45 FREE for details

SECOND WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE TOM BURLINSON PERFORMS ‘SINATRA AT THE SANDS’ featuring SENSATIONAL ALL STAR BIG BAND 34 AUS

COME SWING WITH SINATRA

Kick back to the big band sound 24 JUNE of Sinatra. Fri : 2pm & 7pm Australian star of stage and screen FESTIVAL THEATRE Tom Burlinson returns with a special new performance of the classic live 2 hrs [inc interval] album Sinatra at the Sands. Suitable 12+ years Hear all the wonderful songs from ‘Come Fly with Me’ to ‘I’ve Got You SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Under My Skin’, ‘Fly Me to the Moon’, ‘My Way’, ‘New York, New York’, and Adult A Res $54.90 many more. Conc A Res $49.90 Tom Burlinson is internationally Premium $69.90 renowned for his smooth vocals Adult A Res $59.90 and astonishing performance skills. Conc A Res $54.90 Unforgettable. Adult B Res $49.90 Conc B Res $44.90 “The next best thing to Sinatra” The Courier Mail Stuart Spence

FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents ADELAIDE PREMIERE KATE CEBERANO AND PAUL GRABOWSKY LOVE SONGS AUS 35

LOVE SONGS THAT WILL LEAVE YOU LONGING FOR MORE

The ultimate, intimate date with 24 – 25 JUNE former Adelaide Cabaret Festival Fri : 9pm Artistic Director, Kate Ceberano and Sat : 3pm & 9pm former Adelaide Festival Artistic DUNSTAN Director and musical maestro, PLAYHOUSE Paul Grabowsky. Two of Australia’s most respected 1 hr 10 mins musicians reinterpret some of the Suitable all ages great love songs of the past 50 years. Discover why these songs have the ability to connect on a deep emotional SUBSCRIBE & SAVE level and fall in love again as Kate Adult $44.90 and Paul strip back renditions of Conc $39.90 hand selected love songs that have influenced both of their lives. Premium $59.90 Adult $49.90 Conc $44.90 “It is a match made in musical heaven. Her ravishing voice paired with his keyboard mastery.” Herald Sun

FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

DEBORA KRIZAK DASH KRUCK LAUGH BE A LADY I MIGHT TAKE MY SHIRT OFF 36 WORLD PREMIERE AUS ADELAIDE PREMIERE AUS

Original music composed by Chris Perren Originally directed by Emily Gilhome Musical direction and arrangements by Benjamin Kiehne

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL POP A CABARET CHERRY

Join the fun with a special tribute to icons of It’s Lionel’s first time. screwball hilarity Betty White, Carol Burnett, You promise to be gentle, right? Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers and our After a difficult break-up with his long-term very own Jeannie Little! boyfriend and following advice from his Laugh be a Lady celebrates some of the terrifying German therapist to ‘express himself’, world’s greatest female comediennes, and Lionel has inadvertently found himself in a introduces the flamboyant Lola L’amore, cabaret show. He’s now left to draw on his played by award-winning performer Debora limited knowledge of the style and formidable Krizak in an inspirational homage to some Wikipedia skills to hilariously stumble his way of the greatest stage and screen divas in through an hour on stage covering sex, booze, musical comedy cabaret. boys and mythical beasts. From the mischievous It will be simply hilarious! mind of writer/performer Dash Kruck. Musical Direction by “Kruck — the dashing love child of Eddie “Comically seductive...” Andrew Worboys Sydney Morning Herald Perfect and James Corden — is marvellous” Herald Sun SUBSCRIBE & SAVE 24 – 25 JUNE Adult $29.90 23 – 25 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Fri : 6.45pm Concession $24.90 Thu & Fri : 9.15pm Adult $24.90 Sat : 2.45pm & 9.15pm Sat : 6.45pm Concession $19.90 ARTSPACE Premium $39.90 Adult $34.90 ARTSPACE Premium $34.90 1 hr 10 mins Concession $29.90 1 hr 5 mins Adult $29.90 Suitable 12+ yrs Concession $24.90 Warning: Contains Suitable 16+ yrs Jeff Busby coarse language & Warning: Contains coarse The Production Company simulated smoking Louis Dillon Savage language, nudity & strobe lighting FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

SOUTHERN BELLES YANA ALANA JANE CLIFTON, NICHAUD FITZGIBBON, CARLA LIPPIS AND THE SOUTHERN BELLES BAND COVERED AUS 37

ADELAIDE PREMIERE AUS POWERHOUSE VOCALS FROM POWERFUL WOMEN CAMP, CURVED & COMPLETELY CLOTHED CABARET

Celebrating the sassy, red-blooded female Yana Alana is infamous for her nude, rude and musicians of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. lewd cabaret appearances. In a risqué act of Nichaud Fitzgibbon, Jane Clifton and Carla defiance this camp, bouffant, drag diva will Lippis perform the songs of Dusty Springfield, appear on stage with her all-female band – Loretta Lynn, Nancy Sinatra, Dolly Parton, fully clothed! Gladys Knight and the Pips and many more. A very special performance for those of us Featuring the powerful musical direction of yearning for Yana to bear her soul but not her Clare Moore on drums and Rosie Westbrook on arse. Joined by The Paranas featuring Bec bass, Southern Belles honours a time in history Matthews and Louise Goh with songs made when women took hold of their lives, stories famous by Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Shirley and the mic. Bassey, Laurie Anderson and Joy Division.

22 – 23 JUNE “Yana Alana is without a doubt the first lady SUBSCRIBE & SAVE of cabaret. Outlandish, bawdy and slightly Wed : 7.30pm Adult $39.90 unhinged, she is worthy of cult status.” Thu : 7pm Concession $34.90 Melbourne Observer BANQUET ROOM SUBSCRIBE & SAVE 1 hr 10 mins Premium $49.90 24 – 25 JUNE Adult $44.90 Adult $34.90 Suitable 12+ yrs Fri & Sat : 7pm Concession $39.90 Concession $29.90 BANQUET ROOM Musical directors 1 hr Premium $44.90 Rosie Westbrook & Clare Moore Suitable 16+ yrs Adult $39.90 Warning: Contains Concession $34.90 coarse language GreenRoom $19.95 ADELAIDE PREMIERE & EXCLUSIVE & haze effects ...to come... FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents a Restless Dance Theatre production ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE IN THE BALANCE RESTLESS DANCE THEATRE AND THE AUDREYS 38 AUS

A GLITTERING PARTY WITH CHARM

You’re invited to party with local hit youth dance company Restless Dance Theatre accompanied by musical darlings The Audreys. Explore the intricacies of how people behave and interact at a party. Be intrigued as the Restless dancers flirt, fight and entice each other. The party progresses from alluring and delicate to

challenging and confronting. By the end of the evening everyone The Audreys hits the dance floor with a no fear attitude. Join the fun!

“With flirting, quarreling and a little love, what a swell party this is” The Australian

22 – 23 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Wed : 7pm Adult $34.90 Thu : 6.30pm Concession $29.90 Director DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE Michelle Ryan Premium $49.90 Design 1 hr Adult $39.90 Gaelle Mellis Suitable all ages Concession $34.90 Lighting Design Geoff Cobham Warning: GreenRoom $19.95 Music Contains haze effects The Audreys Shane Reid

FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents a Little Red Company production ADELAIDE PREMIERE RUMOUR HAS IT NAOMI PRICE AS ADELE AUS 39

Created by Adam Brunes and Naomi Price Performance also features Mik Easterman, Rachel Everett-Jones, Andrew Johnson, Luke Kennedy, Michael Manikus, Jason McGregor and Lai Utovou

PART MTV CONCERT, PART BEDROOM LAMENT

You’re invited to an intimate evening with blockbuster soul sensation – Adele. Naomi Price, Australian theatre star and Ricky Martin’s leading lady from The Voice Australia 2015, performs Adele with haunting accuracy offering a satirical glimpse behind the glossy veneer of this pop legend. Hear the mega-platinum hits including, ‘Hello’, ‘Skyfall’ and ‘Someone Like You’, in a universally acclaimed homage to pop’s most loveable lass that is both cheeky and irreverent. Audiences across Australia have declared this to be a truly mesmerising bravura performance that both dispels and starts the rumours.

23 – 25 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Thu : 9pm Adult $44.90 “Both poignant and pithy... Fri & Sat : 6.30pm Concession $39.90 Fabulously entertaining!” DUNSTAN PLAYHOUSE The Courier-Mail Premium $59.90 1 hr 15 mins Adult $49.90 “Don’t miss this. It will make you Suitable 16+ years Concession $44.90 glad to be alive.” Warning: GreenRoom $24.95 Scenestr Contains coarse language & haze effects Dylan Evans

FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SVEN RATZKE STARMAN 40 GER

A SHOW WITH THE MUSIC OF DAVID BOWIE

MEET THE STARMAN, HE’LL BLOW YOUR MIND

Take your protein pills and put your 22 – 25 JUNE helmets on! Extraordinary entertainer Wed – Sat : 7.30pm Sven Ratzke presents a dazzling new SPACE THEATRE rock show inspired by the music of the legend that was David Bowie. Enter the 1 hr 10 mins hyper-real world of seventies glam-rock. Suitable all ages Ratzke inhabits Bowie’s multiple Warning: personas – a mad, bizarre, androgynous Contains haze universe of incredible music and outrageous costumes. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Explore the brilliant worlds of Ratzke Adult $44.90 and Bowie colliding in this epic rock and Concession $39.90 roll ride. Premium $54.90 Adult $49.90 “The shark has feathers: Ratzke Concession $44.90 is the homme fatale, the glamour GreenRoom $24.90 animal on stage” Tagesspiegel, Berlin Musical Director Charly Zastrau

Denis Veldman

FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents WORLD PREMIERE & ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE THE BIRDS BY FINUCANE & SMITH AUS 41

Starring Moira Finucane, Clare St Clare, Rockie Stone, Mama Alto, Holly Durant & Miss Chief

AVANT GARDE VARIETY IN FULL FLIGHT

The infamous globally acclaimed glamazons behind 22 – 25 JUNE Glory Box and Burlesque Hour return to Adelaide with Wed – Sat : 10pm a brand-new gothic, erotic, airborne variety show. SPACE THEATRE Edgar Allen Poe meets late night Paris. Offering a plumage shaking poetic seduction of dark 1 hr 20 mins torch songs, devil dance, wild tales and amazing Suitable 18+ years feats of the aerial exquisite. Grand Guignol for the Warning: 21st century; you’ll plunge into a tumultuous and Contains nudity, strobe beautifully feathered world. lighting, simulated smoking & haze effects Come fly into a midnight sky.

“The perfect fusion of vaudeville tradition with the experience of SUBSCRIBE & SAVE postmodernity… amazing, magical, Adult $44.90 underground and unforgettable, Concession $39.90 seductive and revolutionary, provocative and glorious.” Premium $59.90      Adult $49.90 Farsa Magazine, Buenos Aires Concession $44.90 GreenRoom $24.95 “Finucane & Smith create worlds so beautiful it hurts to leave them” Created & directed by Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith Aus Theatre Jodie Hutchinson

FINAL WEEK Adelaide Festival Centre presents WORLD PREMIERE & ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE THE LAST GALAH HOSTED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTORS ALI McGREGOR & EDDIE PERFECT 42 AUS

CABARET HAS NEVER BEEN SO PATRIOTIC

It’s the final hurrah and we’re celebrating 25 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Australia’s greatest songwriters in an evening Sat : 8pm of stellar performances by local and international Adult $84.90 FESTIVAL THEATRE cabaret superstars from the final week of Concession $79.90 the Festival. 1 hr 30 mins Premium $109.90 Suitable 16+ years From big Aussie rock numbers to soul-searching Adult A Res $89.90 ballads, this year’s Festival artists will optimise Warning: Contains Conc A Res $84.90 the Australian spirit by taking their favourite coarse language and Adult B Res $79.90 mature themes Australian songs and trying to make them better. Conc B Res $74.90 Put a smile on your dial, then come and join us Director Andy Packer as we go off like a pack of flaming Galahs. Musical Director Vanessa Scammell

FINAL WEEK CABARET FESTIVAL COMES OUT TO PLAY BACKSTAGE CLUB ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AND USUALLY DOES

Expect the unexpected as cabaret’s elite BANQUET ROOM 2 hours Suitable 16+ yrs team-up for unique collaborations and Presale: $25.00 Warning: Contains coarse language celebrations of all things cabaret. On the Door: $30.00 43

HOSTED BY HOSTED BY HOSTED BY AMY G & MISS BEHAVE JAN VAN DE STOOL LIBBY O’DONOVAN

Join our spectacular cabaret Already an interpretive dancer Ignite your evening with chanteuse straight from and singing psychologist, Jan sassy songstress Libby New York, Amy G and the van de Stool, International O’Donovan, thrilling audiences quick-witted, mistress of Musical Therapist, is now adding in a spontaneous affair that ceremonies Miss Behave show-host to her extensive will offer once in a lifetime for three late-nights full ego. Join Jan for ‘healarious’ experiences for the closing of frivolity and fabulous comedy, a few Dutch parlour nights of this year’s Club. spontaneous performances games and some soulful tunes from an array of our opening from her star student, THU 23 9.30PM weekend Festival artists. Queenie van de Zandt. FRI 24 & SAT 25 10PM FRI 10, SAT 11 THU 16 9.30PM & SUN 12 10pm FRI 17 & SAT 18 10PM

ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL DUNSTAN Tickets are only $10 on the door (no transaction fees*), otherwise $10 pre-booked through BASS PLAYHOUSE (booking transaction fees will apply*) MOVIE NIGHTS All Tickets: $10.00 *normal credit card surcharges still apply

DOCO NIGHT – MONDAY 20 6.45pm BETTY BLOKK MICHELLE’S STORY LABYRINTH BUSTER FOLLIES (2015) 30min Introduced by Michelle Ryan (1986) 101min (1976) 120min An inspirational story of dance and disability and the Introduced by Introduced by Reg Livermore redeeming power of art by Australian choreographer Sven Ratzke Meryl Tankard in her filmmaking debut. Celebrate the This recording of Cabaret Icon Rated Award winner Reg 30th anniversary Livermore’s ground- of this wonderful breaking one-man family cult classic show captures 20 FEET FROM and enjoy David Bowie’s iconic an extraordinary STARDOM event in the performance. history of cabaret (2013) 91min

performance in Introduced by Ms. Lisa Fischer TUESDAY 21 Australia. Documentary shining a light on 6.45pm TUESDAY 14 the untold stories of legendary vocalists and backup singers Rated 6.45pm behind some of the greatest musical acts of the last century. Rated Rated Adelaide Festival Centre presents Adelaide Festival Centre presents

CLASS OF CABARET 2016 BeMused CLASS OF CABARET GRADUATES 44 AUS AUS

Featuring Blackwood High School Brighton Secondary School Cedar College Charles Campbell College Concordia College Hallett Cove School Henley High School Immanuel College Loreto College Pembroke School St. Peter’s Girls’ School Scotch College Thebarton Senior College Trinity College Senior Underdale High School Urrbrae Agricultural High School Barbara Jayne Dance School

WORLD PREMIERE & WORLD PREMIERE & ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE ADELAIDE EXCLUSIVE THE STARS OF TOMORROW IN SONG A BIT OF WISDOM FROM THE FUTURE

Now in its seventh year, the 2016 Class of Five not-quite-twenty year olds find the Cabaret is in session. The brightest rising stars business of ‘adulting’ to be highly perplexing. from secondary schools across South Australia Bombarded with exciting opportunities and present two astonishing performances inspired hefty grown-up decisions to make, these by personal stories shared through song. upcoming artists are determined not to let their Lighting the path is Adelaide’s vocal darling bewilderment overcome them. Charmaine Jones with support from Meet Naomi Crosby, Benji Riggs, Mellie Tantalos, professional cabaret performers Michael Harry Nguyen and Jemma Allen as they explore Griffiths and Amelia Ryan. life through the musings of their past, present and future. Coached by vivacious cabaret artist, “Even if you don’t have a personal connection Libby O’Donovan, these insanely talented and with any of the students, if you want a musical vocally gifted Class of Cabaret Grads are back night out that will put a huge smile on your face to baffle your mind. – this is the show for you.” InDaily 22 – 23 JUNE SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Wed : 7.15pm 25 JUNE Adult $24.90 SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Thu : 6.45pm Sat : 1pm & 4pm Concession $19.90 Adult $34.90 ARTSPACE SPACE THEATRE Concession $29.90 1 hr 10 mins Premium $34.90 1 hr 10 mins Adult $29.90 Premium $44.90 Suitable all ages Suitable 12+ years Concession $24.90 Adult $39.90 Director GreenRoom $14.95 Accompanied by Concession $34.90 Andy Packer Carol Young & Musical Director Lara Merrington Logan Watt Mark Ferguson

FINAL WEEK FREE EVENTS PIANO BAR STAGE GREENROOM SPEAKEASY BANDS IN THE WINTERGARDEN Enjoy a variety of FREE Experience exciting new work from our Join some of our great local musicians cabaret entertainment talented team of GreenRoom members. whilst they entertain patrons in the hosted by piano-man These emerging cabaret performers Wintergarden on selected evenings extraordinaire Trevor will sing songs and share stories on through the Festival. Jones. Each night will Wednesdays in the Wintergarden. 45 be spontaneous and adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/greenroom unique, filled with fun, musical entertainment LIVE LOCAL RADIO and some very special guests throughout BROADCAST the Festival. with Peter Goers Piano Bar Thursday 16 June, proudly 7 – 10pm supported by Piano Bar Peter Goers brings his 891 ABC Adelaide Evenings program to LATE NIGHT DJs the Piano Bar for a live Piano Bar Stage broadcast featuring interviews with and Stay on after the 11th hour on performances from Party Nights as our dance floor Cabaret Festival artists. erupts with guest DJs. with Come and join the live Every Friday and Saturday night INSIGHTS LANCE HORNE audience and experience from 11.30pm as well as Sunday Peter’s unique night of the opening weekend. WORKSHOP “audio vaudeville” – Sunday 19 June, cabaret style. 4.15pm Banquet Room SONGWRITERS SERIES Having worked with CABARET CATCH UP cabaret artists from with Sonya Feldhoff Saturdays 11, 18 & 25 June, around the world, 4.30pm – Piano Bar award winning Saturday 18 June, 2 – 4pm Converge in the Piano Bar for three international composer Saturday afternoon sessions venturing and sought-after Piano Bar into the creative minds of cabaret and musical director Lance Horne will share 891 ABC Adelaide musical theatre composers. his industry insights and experiences. Afternoons presenter Sonya Feldhoff will Guided by Co-Artistic Director Eddie Take up this rare and exclusive opportunity join a variety of Perfect, songwriters will discuss their to understand the creative process of a Adelaide Cabaret work and offer insights into their musical true artist before he performs his debut Festival artists processes and experiences. album First Things Last, (see page 33). on stage for The Songwriters Series is a relaxed Audience registration essential. a chat. afternoon around the piano as Eddie Email cabaret@adelaidefestival Sonya will coax and other talented composer’s show centre.com.au with “Workshop” the artist to and tell, providing musical examples and in the subject line. reveal their explanations about all things song writing. creative impulses, Informative, educational, and free – this artistic desires is an amazing opportunity to have your and what makes questions about composition answered. ART STORIES them tick. Sunday 12 June, 4.30pm Piano Bar What’s inside a song or a story? What’s hidden beneath the glare of the spotlight? Eddie Perfect, Ali McGregor, Barb Jungr and Reg Livermore altogether on one stage – 2 generations, 2 women, 2 men, 4 great interpreters of song! Art Stories Listen anywhere. On Air. Online. invites this incredible quartet to come On the ABC Radio app. together to swap stories about their abc.net.au/adelaide formative years, reflecting on those moments that led to their success and Talkback 1300 222 891 revealing what’s behind their most iconic SMS 0467 922 891* works. Discover how these artists make Twitter @891Adelaide the work they do, what inspires and Facebook 891Adelaide drives them, and find out more about the Instagram @891Adelaide mystery and power of human creativity. * Standard SMS costs apply Hosted by theatre director Chris Drummond. Choose from a diverse range of catering options WINE & DINE before, between and after every performance. The Wintergarden Grant Burge Wine Bar Bistro Festival Theatre Terrace Space Theatre Foyer by the food business Enjoy the lively atmosphere Created especially for the Meet and unwind after work or 46 and pop-up style eateries Festival, the Grant Burge Wine party on after the show with offering your favourite Festival Bar is the perfect place to meet dining options from food at the cuisine including hearty meals, before and after shows for a bar to something substantial. coffee and sweets to help sneaky glass of wine. Bistro by the food business is refuel between shows. the perfect place for everything Pol Roger Lounge from tantalising tastes to Cabaret Kitchen Adjacent to Piano Bar luscious cocktails while you soak up the best outlook in town. Located in Lyrics Over the Adelaide Cabaret Enjoy a casual dining Festival the most stylish Reservations 8216 8744 experience overlooking Elder Champagne Pol Roger plays host Park from 6pm. 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