VELVET Opens at QPAC

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) season of VELVET opened with a bang on Thurs 21 April, in the Centre's Cremorne Theatre.

Hot on the heels of a sold-out season in Adelaide and Melbourne, the award winning hit show has just released its final week of shows here in Brisbane, due to popular demand, running until 15 May 2016 at QPAC.

Named 'Best Cabaret' and 'Best Return Season' by critics at the 2016 Adelaide Fringe, QPAC's Cremorne Theatre has been transformed into a boogie wonderland that has to be seen to be believed.

After winning Pick Of The Fringe and Best Of The Fringe awards in 2015, VELVET played sell-out seasons at the Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, and Sydney Opera House along with a smash-hit run at Brisbane Festival before returning to South Australia and now to Queensland for an encore season.

Director Craig Ilott has created a hedonistic world, pitting dazzling acrobatics against disco divas as this sexy, spectacular, sparkling and slightly sadomasochistic show channels the original Studio 54 nightclub.

Singer/songwriter Brendan Maclean again heads the cast in this party like no other, alongside an international ensemble of circus, cabaret and music talent; dreamy muscle man Stephen Williams, hula boy extraordinaire Craig Reid, acrobatic wunderkind Mirko Köckenberger, sizzling aerialist Emma Goh, sassy sirens Chaska Halliday and Rechelle Mansour, musical director and mix master Joe Accaria and the legendary diva Marcia Hines.

When a young ingénue, Brendan Maclean, slips behind the red velvet rope at the glamorous nightclub that is VELVET, he encounters dazzling acrobatics, disco divas, seductive chanteuses and a hot, pulsating atmosphere. It changes him and empowers him! The performance follows his seduction and his transformation.

VELVET shocks, surprises and scintillates at every turn. It's a party, it's dangerous, it's electrifying, and the exhilarating disco soundtrack never lets up from the opening moment. Each performance invites the audience into an intoxicating glitter ball world where the performers and the audience walk the fine line between the romantic and the audacious.

VELVET is a fantastic sensory overload; funky, fresh, fun and sexy. Tickets on sale now, final week just released, via qpac.com.au or call 136 246.

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