ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE’S ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 10-25 JUNE2016 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE’S BACKSTAGE CLUB ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL CALENDAR 10 – 25 JUNE 2016 26 43 FREE EVENTS 45 52 HOW TO BOOK 46 WINE & DINE 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 SPECIAL EVENT 4 ADELAIDE PREMIERE USA Adelaide Festival Centre presents 5 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.