Finucane & Smith's Global Smash Club at Festival Hub

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of their genre-defying global smash hit The Burlesque Hour, Melbourne art legends Finucane & Smith are taking over the Fringe Hub ETU Ballroom for a week of astonishing divas, red-hot acts, roof-shattering song, lounging, dancing, drinking, sashaying. Jaw dropping dance, breathtaking burlesque, world famous art, sultry song, wild, joyous and devilishly disobedient From global hits to what the f*ck was that. Part club. Part happening. Part party. Part transcendent ritual. Part WTAF. All history in the making.

Moira Finucane, Melbourne Fringe Festival’s reigning Living Legend, “National Treasure” (The Age), and multi-award winning Queen of Provocative Variety musters up a posse of OG wild women to create a club like no other. Cabaret icon Maude Davey; dark goddess of butoh, Yumi Umiumare; transcendent diva Mama Alto; Las Vegas crowned Queen of Burlesque Imogen Kelly, ceiling-shattering opera diva Piera Dennerstein, astonishing starlet Zitao Deng; uber virtuoso Xiao Xiao & more more more

4 nights & 8 shows only. 7pm & 9pm

“outrageous and unforgettable” - The Times UK

“bursting at the seams with monstrous talent” - Sunday Age

“Wickedly entertaining, hugely different, grotesquely addictive” - Three Weeks, UK

“Underground, unforgettable, seductive and revolutionary, provocative and glorious.” - Farsa Magazine, Buenos Aires

“Changed all that before were fears, taboos and restrictions on the personal or artistic into “total art, total love and total freedom.” - Cuba Tribune

“completely artistically unique" - Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden

“fantastically indecent and breath-taking night!!" - WD Magazine, Yokohama Japan