Mitchell Butel to Perform Cabaret Show at Hayes Theatre

A thousand dreams, a handful of loves, too many martinis and 24 hours packed into 80 minutes of song. Tales of time from the jazz and blues songbooks starring Mitchell Butel, presented by Neil Gooding in association with Hayes Theatre Co.

Three-time Helpmann Award winner (and voice of the Playschool theme song to boot) Mitchell Butel returns to the Sydney cabaret stage after star turns in The Government Inspector, Angels in America, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Mikado, Forum, Gettin' Square, Meow Meow's Little Match Girl and Avenue Q in a hilarious and occasionally sentimental tale of 24 hours in the life of himself and of all our selves. Backed by a white- hot jazz trio led by Daryl Wallis, Butel weaves his way through a night of song including works by Ellington, Berlin, Jarreau, Bernstein, Mercer, Arlen, Elling, Sondheim and Parton...sorry, what, Dolly Parton? Really??

During this season of Killing Time, Mitchell will also be starring in Emerald City for the Griffin Theatre Company. He is also currently shooting the drama series Hiding for ABC TV and the feature film Holding the Man. So by Sunday nights, he'll need that martini. Come join him.

A MONTH OF SUNDAYS - NOV 9, 23, 30 AND DEC 7 AT 7.30PM HAYES THEATRE CO, 19 GREENKNOWE AVE, POTTS POINT TICKETS: $40/$35 (CONCESSION - SENIOR, STUDENT, MEAA) (INCLUDING BOOKING FEE) TICKETS AT www.hayestheatre.com.au OR 02 8065 7337.

MITCHELL BUTEL

With an extensive career in theatre, film and television, Mitchell Butel is one of Australia's most prolific and versatile acting and singing talents. From Shakespeare, Moliere, Miller and O'Neill for the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir and Bell Shakespeare to smash-hit musicals such as Avenue Q, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Mikado to AFI-nominated performances in countless feature films and TV shows, it's clear that Mitchell is an impressive force in Australian entertainment.

Mitchell's music theatre credits include his Helpmann-awarded roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q (Arts Asia Pacific); Luther Billis in South Pacific (Lincoln Center/Opera Australia); Assassins (Silo Theatre, NZ); The Producers, Kismet, Sugar, Little Me, Oklahoma!, Hair (The Production Company); Dusty (Dusty Productions); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Man of La Mancha

(Gordon Frost/SEL); Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Little Shop of Horrors (David Atkins Enterprises); The Fantasticks (Newtown Actors Group); Follies and Bernadette Peters in Concert (Sydney Opera House) and for Opera Australia, Orpheus in the Underworld and the role of Ko-Ko in The Mikado.

His other theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet, Face to Face, Summer Rain, Harbour, The Republic of Myopia, Mourning Becomes Electra, Tartuffe, Two Weeks with the Queen, Dead White Males, The Café Latte Kid, Summer of the Aliens, Six Degrees of Separation (Sydney Theatre Company); The Grenade, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Tomfoolery, Urinetown, Piaf (Melbourne Theatre Company); Stones in his Pockets, The Venetian Twins (Queensland Theatre Company); Othello (Bell Shakespeare); The Government Inspector, Angels in America, Strange Interlude, The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, The Laramie Project, A View from the Bridge, Dead Heart (Company B Belvoir); Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (State Theatre Company SA); A Life in Three Acts (Arts Projects Australia/Syd Festival); Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Ensemble Theatre); Mad, Bad and Spooky (Theatre of Image); Blue Remembered Hills (O'Punsksky's); Boeing Boeing (Dainty/New Theatricals) and Woyzeck, Meow Meow's Little Match Girl (Malthouse).

Mitchell has appeared in three solo cabaret shows, Mitchell Butel's Excellent Adventure, And Now for the Weather and Killing Time for the 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival (which is available on CD at www.middle8.com or downloadable through iTunes), and is the voice of the Playschool theme song.

Feature film credits include Gettin' Square, The Bank, Strange Fits of Passion, Dark City, Virtual Nightmare and Two Hands. TV credits include The Broken Shore, Rake, Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes, MDA, Grass Roots, Wildside, Murder Call, All Saints, Twisted Tales, Close Ups, Bordertown and GP.

Mitchell received Helpmann Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for The Mikado, Avenue Q and The Venetian Twins and AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film for Gettin' Square and Strange Fits of Passion.

He has been a proud member of Actors Equity since 1988 and is a member of the National Performers Committee. He is also a Board member of Belvoir St Theatre.

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