The Butterfly Club Now Accepting Applications for 2011

With no hire fee, The Butterfly Club is Melbourne's most accessible venue for new and experienced performers, particularly those presenting brand new shows where the risks are highest.

The Butterfly Club also provides opportunities to build audiences, raise performer profiles, tour (we often tour shows after hosting them) and be talent spotted by agents, producers and the 2011 Melbourne Cabaret Festival.

Applicants should email butterflyperformer@gmail.com for a performer pack.

"The Butterfly Club has always been known for its strong support for performers and, equally, a high standard of entertainment for patrons from some of Australia's best known cabaret stars. Increasingly we are also becoming known as the place to see new talent whose star status is about to ascend," The Butterfly Club's David Read said.

Each year, The Butterfly Club participates in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival and Midsumma Festival, with its shows often comprising up to 50% of the cabaret offerings in these events. Resident performances staged at The Butterfly Club have received many festival awards.

Alliances forged between The Butterfly Club and the major Victorian tertiary performing arts courses have created an incubator for new cabaret talent.

The Butterfly Club now consistently launches more than 100 new shows every year, each week presenting up to three different cabaret shows nightly and staging more than 500 performances every year.

We asked a couple of performers why they like performing at The Butterfly Club:

Eddie Perfect says: "The Butterfly Club is easily one of Melbourne's (if not Australia's) most unique performance spaces. A perfect place to accumulate some flight hours on stage, it's a performer's dream; especially for one who thrives on the direct and the intimate. It doesn't get any more intimate than this fifty seater. I've had some of my most memorable shows there and I really think it's been a significant factor in me building the skills needed to play venues of any size. They also make a mean Thai Butterfly at the bar..."

Tim Minchin says: "Neville and David supported my work in its developmental period by promoting shows at the increasingly legendary Butterfly Club. Their belief that my work was worthy of backing played a huge part in helping me develop confidence in my product - a confidence which then translated to significant local and overseas success."

For more information visit online at www.thebutterflyclub.com

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