CABARET
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AUSTRALIA
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN HEADING TO ADELAIDE FOR JUNE CABARET FESTIVAL
The Great American songbook will be well served at the 2007 ADELAIDE
CABARET FESTIVAL (http://www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com/
) which runs from June 8th to 23rd with Michael Feinstein heading a
contingent of topline American cabaret artists bound for Adelaide for
this year's festival. Feinstein will give a master-class as well as
appear in concert with the Adelaide Art Orchestra Big Band in the 2000
seat Festival Theatre in an all-Gershwin program. New Yorkers, Maude
Maggart and Tony DeSare will also give performances, while New York
music and cabaret writer James Gavin, author of Intimate Nights: The
Golden Age of American Cabaret, will give a talk during the festival.
Achnowledged as the biggest cabaret festival in the
world, the 2007 Adelaide Cabaret Festival will run over 16 nights,
and Festival Director, Julia Holt has selected from around the world,
450 artists who will give 180 performances of 68 different shows.
Among the more classic shows, European cabaret artists, Isabelle Georges
and Frederik Steenbrink who will present two shows, one of them Une
Etoile et Moi..a Judy Garland ( "Judy and Me") which pays tribute
to Judy Garland, whom Georges credits with inspiring her career.
Sultry French chanteuse, Caroline Nin, will also present
two separate shows including her acclaimed Hymne a Piaf, in which
she pays tribute to Edith Piaf, and the premiere of her new show,
Marlene devoted to Marlene Dietrich.
Sensational German songstress, Eva Meier will present
the songs of Eisler, Brecht, Hollaender and Raben, while Canadian
singer/Songwriter Issa (formerly known as Jane Siberry), and composer
of the Calling All Angels, will make her Adelaide Cabaret Festival
debut.
Two new Australian musicals TheBeauty Spot and Shane
Warne: The Musical will be premiered in concert performances during
the festival, while British Composer, writer, director Jeremy Sams,
who wrote the stage adaptation for the West End production of Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang will present two masterclasses: one on Writing for
Music Theatre and the other on Singing Sondheim in which he will be
joined by Phillip Quast direct from playing Peron in the West End
production of Evita.
Julie Anthony, Simon Gallagher, Paul Capsis, Janet Seidel,
Phil Scott, Margret RoadKnight and Paul Grabowsky are among the topline
Australian acts featured in a packed program which takes place over
16 days of frenetic activity in 8 venues scattered around the Adelaide
Festival Centre.
For details of the full program see http://www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com/
.
(contributed by Bill Stephens)
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