Starting back when they were two little gays, Justin Clausen (‘The Lady Is A Tramp’, ‘Butch Masters: Man of Destiny’) and Jamie Burgess (’39 Forever’, ‘Adulting’) will take you on a journey through their ‘hairbrush singing years’, re-imagining the iconic GIRL songs that shaped their world-view, and encouraged them both to sing out loud and proud!
So grab yourself some bubbles and nibbly things and settle in for an hour of power ballads, party songs and Proud Mary’s and keep an eye out for guest appearances from Cher and Celine Dion!
2019 Fringe World Best Cabaret Weekly Award.
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
Sam Phillips formed Sun Records in 1950 in Memphis where he discovered and recorded the likes of BB King, Howlin’ Wolf, Roscoe Gordon, Little Walter & Ike Turner.
At the time there were no labels that would record and promote black music to the general white American public. Sam did so with great enthusiasm and he soon realised that if he could find a white boy that could sing the blues it would open doors for Sun Records and make him rich. Enter Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash, taking the black man’s blues to white kids.
Performed by an all-star Melbourne blues band, this show will be tremendous entertainment showcasing songs from the black and white artists who recorded with Sun. Louis King is from Melbourne and tours to Europe regularly with his trio. Pat Powell is from Sydney and tours the USA, Canada and Europe also. Each has a love of the music from the Sun Records era and they have joined forces to put this show together.
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
Melbourne Cabaret Festival and Kadimah Yiddish Theatre present Yiddish Divas.
Women’s voices today are being heard as never before. Experience the power, beauty and mystery of female Yiddish voices as they are unveiled in Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s smash-hit show of allure, concealment, transformation and surprise. They are a gaggle, a tribe, a community of women who sing in Yiddish, the Jewish language steeped in humour and yearning. Featuring original songs and interpretations of influential classics performed by an inter-generational cast of unique voices and an all-female band, Yiddish Divas will embrace, nurture, play and bring you to their collective bosom.
In Yiddish with English surtitles.
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
Rumours – a mixture of truth and gossip, passed along the grapevine and also the name of one of the best selling rock albums of all times. Fleetwood Mac have been innovators in music for more than 5 decades. Despite perpetual conflict and troubled personal lives, the band continued to inspire generations.
A snapshot into the internal turmoil and legacy which created this legendary super group. ‘Sex, Drugs & Fleetwood Mac’ is an edgy, rock cabaret that focuses on the Buckingham / Nicks era of Fleetwood Mac.
With live music performed by Sweetwood – one of Australia’s premiere Fleetwood Mac tribute acts, this is a show you won’t want to miss!
You’ve heard the rumours. You’ve heard the lies. Now join us as we delve into the mystery of Fleetwood Mac!
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
The 10th annual Melbourne Cabaret Festival returns to Chapel Off Chapel with two weeks of atmospheric, seductive and soul-stirring entertainment from Wednesday 19 June to Sunday 30 June.
On the night, expect to experience several highlights of multiple shows from across the festival in the one extravaganza.
Falling in love is wonderful … so they say! Join the incredibly charming Alister Kingsley and Owen McCredie as they sing their way through the greatest Love Songs of Broadway, all the while figuring out for themselves exactly what love is! Featuring songs from hit Broadway shows like Guys and Dolls, Oliver, Hairspray, Sound of Music and many more!
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
Amy Winehouse has been resurrected, revived and reimagined in this brand new, hilarious and uplifting show starring world-renowned actor and singer, Alexis Fishman, direct from New York.
After the news arrives that her idol Tony Bennett would give anything to record with her again, Amy Winehouse finds her way back from wherever it is she went after her untimely death in 2011. She’s ripe for a comeback, even if it’s from the dead.
Expect the beehive, the foul-mouth and all of Amy’s hits, including some you may never have heard before.
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
Spicy songs & taboo tunes are not exclusive to the ‘noughties’.
Lyrics have been teasing listeners’ ears for years. Granted, the sass wasn’t on the surface as it is today, but that’s part of what made it even better.
Award winning, international jazz chanteuse, Fem Belling, brings to life the rare and racy songs of the early decades. With the churning whirr of Jake Mason (Cooking On 3 Burners) at the organ and Fem’s breathtaking vocal prowess, this show opens a door to a truth of music deeply rooted in human history often neglected on the jukebox. Fem will fire up songs that weren’t afraid of speaking out about the birds and the bees during a time where dudes could be prudes but women couldn’t spit their venom.
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
Creatures of the Deep is a documentary style cabaret set under the sea. With the help of our Jacques Cousteau-esque narrator you will be taken on a journey beneath the surface to meet a plethora of beautiful, wild sea creatures who are given a voice to share their unique perspective beneath the waves.
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
Crazy Arms – A Few Centuries of Piano Tinkering, is a preposterously zany, musical adventure that spans the origins of the piano from its birth in 1709 through to the 20th century.
With absurd, improvised humour, musical wizardry and incredible stories about the piano and its players, acclaimed writer & pianist, Damon Smith, from critically acclaimed shows, ‘Sun Rising, the songs that made Memphis’ and ‘Mental as Everything’, will perform virtuosic piano tinkering in homage to some of the great musicians that have ‘tickled the ivories’ throughout the ages.
Featuring music and stories from Liberace, Jerry Lee Lewis, Winifred Atwell, Scott Joplin, Dr John, Mozart, Beethoven, Harry Connick Jr, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Elton John and so many more, you’ll hear finger busting boogie-woogie music, delicate sonatas and huge rock and roll hits like ‘Great Balls of fire’ and ‘Blueberry Hill’.
Suitable for an all ages audience, this unique comedy–cabaret documentary will blow the audiences socks clean off their perpetually tapping feet.
Crazy Arms is pure cabaret, musical magic…don’t miss it!
As part of Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
