ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENT R E’S ADELAiDE CABA R ET FESTiVAL 9 24 JUNE 2017 G TH R NIN E TABLES ARE TU WELCOME The Government is proud to continue its support of Adelaide Welcome to Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2017! Returning Festival Centre’s celebrated Adelaide Cabaret Festival. artistic directors Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect have delivered an impressive, radical program. The cabaret Adelaide Cabaret Festival was recognised as South Australia’s spirit is stronger than ever. THE TABLES best major event and festival in the 2016 South Australian Tourism Awards. This is a great achievement in the festival This year’s Festival invites you to engage with state and a testament to the power of the arts and cabaret Adelaide Festival Centre’s venues like never before. We’ve repositioned Wintergarden, introduced a new ARE TU R NING to bring people together and light up the city as it does each June. venue, and a number of program highlights will grace Her Majesty’s Theatre’s stage. With Adelaide Festival Centre and Adelaide Riverbank ON THIS PLACE... undergoing an exciting period of renewal and change, With redevelopment works underway, please visit the I encourage you to discover what’s new at Adelaide Cabaret Adelaide Cabaret Fesitval website before your visit for Festival this year and join me in looking forward to all the up to date access information. We hope you love the changes we’ve made to this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival! The Wintergarden has moved from the Terrace to its new home redevelopment’s completion will bring! Thank you to our Adelaide Cabaret Festival patrons. Your enthusiasm and loyalty bring this festival to life. on the Riverdeck outside the Dunstan Playhouse so you can now overlook THE HON JACK SNELLING I also thank our sponsors for their generous support the river and Adelaide Oval. From this side of the building you’ll take in Minister for the Arts and the dedicated staff and volunteers who are key most Cabaret Festival activities and venues including the fabulous Magic to the success of this award-winning festival. Mirrors Spiegeltent (Adelaide Convention Centre lawns). Our fun festival of cabaret is an explosion of artistic creativity, as we mount the biggest and best cabaret DOUGLAS GAUTIER AM festival in the world. Adelaide Cabaret Festival continues CEO & Artistic Director Last year Eddie and I posed the question, ‘What comes next’. To say it’s been a tumultuous year would be an Adelaide Festival Centre to lead the way in revitalising the wonderful interactive This year, with Adelaide Festival Centre under renovation, the understatement. The world seems to have shifted art form of cabaret. world feeling upturned, and the Festival Theatre full of ‘revolting’ since the last note was sung at Adelaide Cabaret children, an underlying sense of revolution couldn’t help Festival 2016. The cabaret artist shares personal stories and but appear… interpretations of songs that reveal the artist’s own Once again, Ali and I have assembled a glorious thoughts, loves and views of the world. The cabaret artist We have programmed great story-tellers, acts that present roster of artists who are here to upset the apple cart, touches our humanity by sharing with us those special an entirely different world view to our own, performers that shift your perspective, turn over the tables and stain personal moments of beauty and truth. REDEVELOPMENT challenge our perception of physicality, gender and aesthetics, your glad rags with their infectious world-view. As always, new original writing, and some of the finest songbook we have the world’s best cabaret artists on hand to dig Cabaret explores the many sides of being human, INFORMATION interpreters in the world. under the comfortable outer-layers of virtue, love, war, the rational and the irrational in all of us. It appeals to propriety and truth. our sensitivity. It jolts our compassionate intelligence. The redevelopment of Adelaide Festival Centre and Festival There are performers that you already know and love, dream It laughs at our follies. Cabaret is an exciting Plaza is underway. The end result will be a world class arts and acts that have been on our wish list for years and acts that We hope that you’ll enter this festival with the same experience not to be missed. entertainment precinct for South Australians and visitors to we have only just discovered. astonishing open-mindedness as you’ve brought time and enjoy. We are working on: time again to the experience of cabaret. 2017 promises to This year things are going to look a little bit different. I thank my fellow Festival Advocacy be intimate, unsettling, uplifting and filled with delightful Modern foyers with upgraded facilities Rooms won’t be where they used to be and new spaces will Committee members. ˙ chaos. We hope you’ll get dirty with us, take it all for a appear. The tables are indeed turning, but I think you’ll find New food and beverage options spin and come up smelling like roses. The table is set ˙ everything you love about this glorious winter festival FRANK FORD AM Technical equipment upgrades and waiting; all we need is you to come and turn it over. ˙ just around that previously unnoticed corner… Chair, Advocacy Committee A children’s art playground Adelaide Cabaret Festival ˙ New northern promenade and entrances EDDIE PERFECT ˙ ALI McGREGOR Artistic Director Adelaide’s very own Walk of Fame Artistic Director Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2017 ˙ Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2017 Visit the website for maps and the most up to date access information before your visit. adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/ redevelopment Please see inside back cover for important access information and car parking options and deals. 2 adelaidecabaretfestival.com.auADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 3 UK THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, LOUISE WITHERS, MICHAEL COPPEL AND MICHAEL WATT PRESENT CONTENTS 05 / Alan Cumming - Sings Sappy Songs 20 / Ancient Rain 15 / Backstage Club - Murray Hill EASILY THE 33 / Backstage Club - Ali McGregor MATILDA STANDOUT MUSICAL 44 / Backstage Club - Reuben Kaye OF THE DECADE. 06 / Bill Frisell - When You Wish Upon a Star SUNDAY TIMES, UK 38 / Black - Le Gateau Chocolat 16 / Bourgeouis & Maurice THE MUSICAL 32 / BREL - The Immortal Troubadour 10 / Bridget Everett - Pound It! 13 / Briefs - Close Encounters 27 / Cabaret Dinner IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE A SHOW 14 / Carlotta - Queen of the Cross CAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF ROALD 42 / Catherine Alcorn - Cathartic DAHL’S LITERARY WORLD MORE 42 / Class of Cabaret PERFECTLY THAN THIS ONE. 18 / Courtney Act - The Girl From Oz THE OBSERVER, UK 41 / CYrens - The Swinging Songbook of Cy Coleman 31 / Dahlesque - Elise McCann 07 / Dianne Reeves Matilda The Musical is the multi-award winning 09 / Dillie Keane - Hello Dillie musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company, 22 / Dusty Limits - Grin inspired by the beloved book by the incomparable 35 / Effie - The Virgin Bride Roald Dahl. With book by Dennis Kelly and original 04 / Family Gala songs by Tim Minchin, Matilda The Musical is the 08 / Gillian Cosgriff - To the Moon and Back story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a 16 / ¡Hispanic Attack! - Ryan Gonzalez vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take 33 / Hush 16 - A Piece of Quiet a stand and change her own destiny. Winner of CONTENTS32 / Kim David Smith - Morphium Kabarett over 70 international awards, including 15 for 11 / Lady Beatle - Naomi Price Best Musical, Matilda continues to delight 37 / Lady Rizo - Multiplied audiences in London, Australia and on tour 26 / Lior & ASQ - Love, Loss and Compassion around the USA. 03 / Matilda The Musical 25 / Meow Meow - Souvenir 43 / Michael Feinstein - Sinatra and Friends 15 / Michael Griffiths - Lucky: Songs by Kylie 14 / One Suitcase Four Stories - Linda Catalano 17 / Out of Earshot - KAGE 19 / Pajama Men - Pterodactyl Nights 21 MAY/ 36 / Peter & Bambi Heaven - The Magic Inside 24 / Peter Coleman-Wright and Nexas Quartet FESTIVAL 26 / Promise and Promiscuity - Penny Ashton THEATRE OTHER INFORMATION 44 / Retrospective - Class of Cabaret Graduates 2hr 40mins (incl interval) 6+ Contains lasers, strobe 40 / Reuben Kaye - Journey to the Centre of Attention 16JUL 57 / Access services lighting, tobacco simulated 36 / Second Wedding Singer - Simon Hall 56 / Booking Information prop cigarettes and theatrical 08 / Songs For Lovers (And Other Idiots) - Roulston & Young ADELAIDE 28-30 / Booking Calendar haze. Lock out period applies. 45 / Songs of Love & Revolution - Closing Variety Gala 57 / Car parking PREMIERE 40 / Strange Bedfellows - Bedlam 56 / Contact Details 39 / Tapestry: The Songs of Carole King - Vika Bull & Debra Byrne 47 / Exhibitions SUBSCRIBE & SAVE 23 / The Idea of North with Kaichiro Kitamura - Groove Sessions 46 / Free Events Adult A Res from $ 85* 34 / The Sound of Falling Stars - Cameron Goodall 57 / Pedestrian/Vehicle Detours Premium $150 21 / The Very Worst of The Tiger Lillies 48 / Premium Entertainment Adult A Res from $120 FROM 21 MAY 11 / Three Mikados - Colin Lane, David Collins & Amy G 48 / Wine & Dine Adult B Res from $ 99 FOR A STRICTLY 22 / Tina Del Twist - Gold Class Adult C Res from $ 55 Book DENNIS KELLY 04 / Variety Gala Performance (restricted view) LIMITED SEASON. Music and Lyrics TIM MINCHIN 12 / Vigil - Christie Whelan-Browne *Selected performances only. ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 03 DOUBLE THE DELIGHT, A PINT-SIZED DOUBLE THE TROUBLE. AUS VARIETY GALA! ALAN UK FORGET SEXY. ALAN CUMMING IS BRINGING CABARET BACK. CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS AN ICON TO BEHOLD… UNAPOLOGETICALLY HIMSELF, AND WITH A TALENT LIKE THAT, HE HAS NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE. BILLBOARD ALAN CUMMING VARIETY GALA FAMILY GALA After last year’s roaring response, the Family Gala is back Named one of the most fun people in show - ensuring that even the littlest cabaret lovers can get in on business by Time Magazine, Olivier and the fun.