Gender-Bending Italian Stallions Take the Stage

Fergie's "Be Italian" number from hit movie musical Nine gets the gender-bending treatment as the opening for the 2015 Twisted Broadway charity concert.

The annual charity concert features internationally-acclaimed music theatre talent singing songs originally penned for the opposite gender in a one-off night of show-stopping, gender-bending entertainment.

Telling the story of Saraghina, an Italian prostitute and outcast, "Be Italian" will be flipped on its head and performed by a cast of strapping male gigolos with tambourines in-hand, led my Mike Snell (Wicked).

Having raised over $80,000 for those living with and touched by HIV/AIDS, in 2015 the evening's hosts Kate Ceberano and Eddie Perfect will lead the gauntlet towards $100,000 mark.

WHATPhoto opportunity of Twisted Broadway's opening number "Be Italian"
VISION15 male dancers dressed in sexy, jazz-era costumes performing intricate choreography with hand-held tambourines on stage (http://bit.ly/1DV0w9Q)

Mike Snell (Wicked) and an ensemble of strapping lads from cast of Twisted Broadway
Eddie Perfect, Twisted Broadway co-host (available for comment)
Kate Ceberano, Twisted Broadway co-host (available for comment)
Kate Macdonald, Twisted Broadway co-founder and producer (available for comment)

Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre. Please meet publicist Tim Jones at concierge (main entrance) to be escorted into the theatre.
Arts Centre Melbourne, State Theatre
8pm, Monday 17 August, 2015
Tickets from $35

Twisted Broadway proudly supports Oz Showbiz Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

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