Category: Cabaret
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Bangers & Mash (Sydney Fringe) ★★★★
What’s long, phallic & salty, yet somehow still a “comfort food”? Bangers & Mash. Be quick, you’ve only got till Saturday to catch it!
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Sunday Service (Gingers) ★★★★★
I don’t believe in god but I do believe in Musical Theatre, and the new Sunday Service, run by Sister Sarah Murr and Sydney Cabaret is a revelation.
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The Emerald Room ★★★★
Does Sydney’s new cabaret/dining locale make us green with envy, or send us all “Hulk! Smash!”? Well it’s more “Hulk! Get Smashed!” as The Emerald Room serves dinner, drinks, drag and more.
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Rizo: Prizmatism (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★★
Rizo, the New York based 70s-rocker-meets-50s-chanteuse-filtered-through-a-00s-drag-diva-turned-yoga-instructor, hits middle-age and the Sydney Festival with her new show Prizmatism, offering an antidote to the isolation of the last few years and a respite from the news of today.
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Alma Zygier: Premarital Sextet (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★★
Stepping away from the more theatrical side of Sydney Festival, I spent an early afternoon listening to Melbourian jazz singer Alma Zygier and her band reinterpret jazz classics with gusto in the Wharf 1 Theatre.
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An Evening Without Kate Bush (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★1/2
Kate Bush is an icon, a legend, an enigma and she is NOT appearing at the Sydney Festival. But Sarah-Louise Young is!
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Send For Nellie (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★1/2
The legacy of performer Nellie Small is given a whistle-stop tour in Send For Nellie, a cabaret/vaudeville performance at Sydney Festival that showcases the vocals of Elenoa Rokobaro as the legendary Sydney entertainer.
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Smashed: The Nightcap (Wharf Theatre) ★★★★★
My Sydney Festival kicked off with an almighty bang thanks to Victoria Falconer and her chaotic cabaret, Smashed: The Nightcap. Sydney Theatre Co’s wonderfully restored Wharf Theatre is being delightfully debased by this blend of drag, burlesque, circus and cabaret. Grab a drink and jump on this bawdy ride.
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35mm: A Musical Exhibition (Flight Path) ★★★★
35mm: A Musical Exhibition has the energy of noughties rock radio. So get ready for your girl-rock anthems, indie romance belters and quirky singer-songwriters all mixed with musical theatre storytelling.
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Robyn Archer: An Australian Songbook (Belvoir) ★★★1/2
Devised and Performer by Robyn Archer. Belvoir St Theatre. 18 – 29 Oct, 2023. Robyn Archer is a storyteller, it just may not be the story you expect to hear. It’s notable that the title to her new show is An Australian Songbook, rather than THE Australian Songbook. There is a multiplicity of options and…
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