BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2015. TEX PERKINS AND THE DARK HORSES Were Friendly And Relaxed At The Dunstan Playhouse
Tex Perkins And The Dark Horses neatly and casually led their audience through some laid back and understated songs.
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Tex Perkins And The Dark Horses neatly and casually led their audience through some laid back and understated songs.
Harper Clements looks back over her forty years, working in the White House.
Frisky and Mannish are no strangers to Adelaide audiences, and their many fans turned out in force.
Meow Meow, once again, had the audience in the palm of her hand from first to last.
Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen, accompanied, or perhaps that should be aided and abetted, by their musical director, Daryl Wallis, at the piano are the Strange Bedfellows.
Every concert has new aspects, new joys, and new stories, and so did this one.
Rooted in Weimar era German Kabarett, with touches of Dadaism evident, My Vagabond Boat is about loss, enforced travel, and seeking new lives.
It is nigh on impossible to resist a tap show, and so The Tap Pack just had to be on my list.
The packed audience showed their appreciation with continuous bursts of applause and laughter.
The Goodbye Girl, is the 1993 musical based on the film from 1977, with a book by Neil Simon, music by Marvin Hamlish, and lyrics by David Zippel
The performance spanned the decades, with so many landmark songs marking the way.
The marvellous Opening Night Gala Performance, like the whole Cabaret Fringe, has found audiences continually increasing.
The original production received critical acclaim but, by comparison, this production makes that one look rather tame.
The Moon is in love with the Sun and sends her servant, Jack Hare, to deliver her message of love, but he is not the most reliable of creatures.
Fittingly, for the first Unseen Theatre Company production since Sir Terry Pratchett's death, Small Gods shows us one of his darker pieces.
Anybody who enjoys full throated singing, and a swirling orchestral backing, would have been as a delighted as I was.
In an intense hour we meet two damaged and dysfunctional young people, Chloe and Chris, the 'odd boy', as she describes him.
The songs in this show are not based on the poems, they are the poems, word for word.
The third and final production in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's Festival at the Arts Theatre is G&S Fest: Princess Ida.
The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild has turned, once again, to the multi-award winning director, Megan Dansie, to tackle Shakespeare's comedy, Much Ado About Nothing.
Tissues were definitely used by some members of the audience to wipe away tears during the most moving sections of this performance.
In typical Neil Simon fashion, there is more to this play than mere superficial comedy.
Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, was first performed in 1955, and is considered an Australian classic.
This is a sensational piece of theatre, unlike any other, moving, informative, enlightening, funny, sad, and poignant,
Once upon a time the then holder of the Murgatroyd baronetcy was cursed by a witch.
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