by Michael Coghlan | Mar 7, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC/Cabaret ~ UK ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] Regal Theatre, Wed 6 Mar, 2024. The British pop invasion of the 1960s wasn’t just about the well-known male bands. Among others there was Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Lulu, and of course Dusty. Dusty Springfield started...
by Michael Coghlan | Jan 1, 2017 | Live Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Sat 31 Dec. Dusty Springfield was born into a strict Catholic family as Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien. She was considered a plump and plain redhead with enough musical talent to accompany her older brother at family show and tells. Mary,...
by Catherine Blanch | Dec 17, 2016 | Entertainment, Interviews, Musical Theatre, Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. Born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien, Dusty Springfield was not only a musician, arranger, record producer and television presenter, but the blue-eyed sensual mezzo-soprano was one of the most successful British female performers of her...
by Bobby Goudie | May 7, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Interviews
by Bobby Goudie. Trevor Ashley last appeared at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival was to perform Liza (on an E), a show which has taken him around Australia and the world, culminating with a season in London’s West End. Ashley is currently starring in Sydney as Thenardier...
by David Robinson | May 5, 2015 | Live Music, Music
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Mon May 4 Athol Guy has assembled some of his talented and long-standing friends to take Athol Guy – The Seekers Story on tour. It’s an affectionate remembrance of his time with Australia’s first internationally-successful pop/folk group. The...
