Arts & Culture
Adelaide Cabaret Festival co-artistic directors Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect ensured this year’s event went out with a world-class bang at the closing variety gala, Songs of Love and Revolution.
Cabaret Festival
Abracadabra! Adelaide’s Cabaret Festival is almost over and if you’re looking for a silly, sexy (depending on what turns you on) and more than slightly manic way to end the season, then The Magic Inside is the ticket for you.
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No-one could come away from this show untouched. Vika and Linda Bull, with the support of a spot-on quintet lead by pianist Paolo Cecchinelli, give their audience a delightful tour of Carole King’s critically acclaimed 1971 Tapestry album, with a little extra thrown in besides.
With only the merest glint from light-reflecting sequins to draw attention to her frame, a diva sings. Rewind after the opening number and we speed from Wagner to a childhood in Lagos — so begins the story of Little Black.
Simon Hall of Tripod has started moonlighting as the premiere second wedding and funeral singer. But not at second funerals – that was a typo on his business cards.
Popular a cappella group The Idea of North was joined by impressive vocal percussionist Kaichiro Kitamura for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival show Groove Sessions.
Penny Ashton injects a breath of fresh satirical air into the Adelaide Cabaret Festival with a brilliantly written and performed new show derived from the novels of Jane Austen.
