by Michael Coghlan | Feb 24, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Bebe’s Room, Fri 23 Feb. [CABARET – VIC] The Fringe has been getting bigger and bigger over recent years and now seems to encompass shows that would have been on even if the Fringe wasn’t. I suspect this is not what many might identify as a Fringe event. Far away in...
by Robert Dunstan | Jun 22, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Interviews, Music
by Robert Dunstan. American singer and pianist Michael Feinstein, an authority on the Great American Songbook, is returning to Adelaide to present a new show, Sinatra And Friends, which he has curated especially for the festival. Backed by a 17-piece Big Band,...
by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 17, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Banquet Room, Thu 16 Jun. Ever wondered what it takes to be an opera singer? Or a comedian for that matter? It’s clearly harder than it looks as David Hobson and Colin Lane try their hand at both to the great amusement of a predominantly ‘mature’ audience. The promo...
by Nikki Fort | Oct 9, 2015 | Live Music, Orchestra, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Thu 8 Oct There was a tsunami of grey hair and chrome domes in the capacity audience of Her Majesty’s Theatre that swept up onto the stage as well, missing only a few clever heads here and there. This glorious music from the Big Band Swing era...
by Nikki Fort | Sep 19, 2015 | Cabaret, Interviews, Live Music, Music
by Nikki Fort. Tommy Dorsey is one of the most influential names from the Big Band, swing, jazz era of the 1940s and ‘50s with more than twenty hits on the American charts. As a jazz trombonist, trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Dorsey created his own rich,...