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MAGGIE
KIRKPATRICK
In recent years Maggie Kirkpatrick,
a fine character actress, has inhabited a number of rich stage
roles, most memorably the robust Mag in Martin McDonagh's The
Beauty Queen of Leenane and the cajoling literary agent Peggy
Ramsay in Peggy for You.
Kirkpatrick is a wonderfully assured and intuitive performer
when she's getting under the skin of another character and, arguably,
more at home doing so than when stripped bare, so to speak, in
cabaret.
- Sydney Morning Herald
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MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK
Maggie Kirkpatrick explains
after her first number that she's not a terrific singer, and
has always had a tiny range. She says this with the wry grin
she flashes a lot during the show, the smile of a woman who's
seen a lot and is still able to laugh it all off.
It's a perfect way to pitch
the show. Kirkpatrick will always be best known for playing sadistic
prison officer Ferguson (nicknamed the Freak) from television's
Prisoner, but has more than acquitted herself as a serious actor
starring with almost every major theatre company in the country.
She's also starred in a number of musicals (including Anything
Goes) so she's no amateur, but has the experience to confess
her limitations and poke gentle fun at them. - Sydney Star
Observer
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SNATCH UP, KABARETT IS BACK
Sydney's newest cabaret and
jazz venue Kabarett Voltaire has officially opened its doors.
Located in the old El Rocco Jazz Cellar, a haunt for famous jazz
musicians in the 50s and 60s, Kabarett Voltaire will showcase
the best cabaret and jazz talent from Australia and overseas.
- Lesbians on the Loose
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SNATCH UP, KABARETT IS BACK
Sydney's newest cabaret and
jazz venue Kabarett Voltaire has officially opened its doors.
Located in the old El Rocco Jazz Cellar, a haunt for famous jazz
musicians in the 50s and 60s, Kabarett Voltaire will showcase
the best cabaret and jazz talent from Australia and overseas.
- Lesbians on the Loose
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KABARETT VOLTAIRE GALA OPENING
Slide up William Street to
Kings Cross and Brougham Street deviates to the left. The stylish
Bar Me lounges on ground level, but the real magic lies down
the flight of stairs, where the ghosts of 1000 masterful jazz
performances are now serenaded by the best in Sydney cabaret.
Some rooms have music dripping
from the walls, thanks to the accumulated quality of the sound
waves that have bounced around. Kabarett Voltaire is a reincarnation
of the famed El Rocco jazz cafe which, opening in 1955, was the
mecca of modern jazz in Sydney through the 1960s. - Sydney
Morning Herald
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YOU SAY CABARET, I SAY KABARETT
Singer and actor David Hawkins
gives a wry laugh when he recalls his first role in a big musical:
entrepreneur Lee Gordon in Shout! To Hawkins's own surprise,
he has found himself running not one but three cabaret venues
while maintaining a career as a performer.
"I've realised in the last few years I'm falling into that
showman bag, like Gower Champion, performers who produce as well,
[that] showbiz is your life," Hawkins says. "I used
to for a long time think, I'm either a performer or a producer."
Now I think I do both of them and that's the way it is."
- Sydney Star Observer
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AMIE
McKENNA
What do you do when you love
musical theatre, have a passion for pop music and have a sketchy
knowledge of world history? According to performer Amie McKenna,
you create a wild and wacky cabaret show.
Her solo show, AmieInc:
Pop Tales, played to critical acclaim earlier this year and
returns to Sydney for a series of performances this month. -
Broadwayaustralia.com
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TONI
LAMOND
She calls the show Still
Full of Life - a title emphatically endorsed from the moment
Toni Lamond steps on stage.
That eternal baby face, the
infectious, almost conspiratorial sparkle in her eyes and that
potentially bruising voice all play their part in what is more
a celebration of later life than a mourning for lost youth -
even while acknowledging that growing older isn't for wimps.
- The Sydney Morning Herald
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TONI
LAMOND
Veteran entertainer Toni Lamond
seems keen to remind people that she's still comfortably perched
on the ol' mortal coil. - The Sun Herald
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JULIE
O'BRIEN AND JEREMY POWELL
Contestants in today's dating
game usually have a tale or two about getting it on with the
wrong Mr or Ms Right. The internet has hatched many of these
modern matches but sadly, romance does not always translate beyond
the chatroom. - The Daily Telegraph
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BELINDA WOLLASTON
Belinda Wollaston is giving
cabaret a cool teen twist, Brigid Delaney reports.
Cabaret screams "look
at me!" The confessional nature of the genre demands a lot
- big talent, epic stories and a certain amount of chutzpah.
- Sydney Morning Herald
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THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Chequers and the Tilbury have
closed their doors but cabaret persists, reports Joel Gibson.
The recent history of the cabaret
scene in this town looks a bit like a typical performance of
the genre: bursts of heartfelt song interspersed with mild-mannered
patter while everyone goes to the bar and waits for the next
number to start. No long-term development, no mainstream penetration.
- Sydney Morning Herald
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JULIE
O'BRIEN AND JEREMY POWELL
"The Dating Game is a
musical romp through the trials and tribulations of trying to
get it on with the Wrong Mr Right. It's a roller-coaster ride
full of the ups and downs, the ins and outs, the unders and over-it's,
pros and dot-cons of dating in the so-called 'New Millennium'.
- The Central Coast Herald
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SHOUT
OUT WITH AN OPEN HEART
Cabaret artist David Hawkins
found himself under a spotlight of a different kind earlier this
year -- the kind you find on an operating table. Hawkins was
operated on for a rare heart condition, while on a break from
his role as Lee Gordon in the touring Shout! He has sprung back
to present a cabaret benefit for the Sydney Children's Hospital,
called Shout Out With An Open Heart at the Kabarett Junction.
- The Daily Telegraph
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BELINDA WOLLASTON
For most showbusiness aspirants,
the first job anywhere near a stage is usually waiting on tables
or pulling beers next door to a theatre.
But Belinda Wollaston has been
lucky. Only two years out of school and she has been almost constantly
performing in theatre, cabaret and even on TV. "I'm on a
bit of a roll," she admits. - The Daily Telegraph
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BELINDA WOLLASTON
Penrith's rising musical star
Belinda Wollaston is living her life "at full speed - the
speed of a hurricane" these days. So her new show, premiering
at Bondi's Kabarett Junction next month, is appropriately called
Hymns From The Hurricane. - Penrith Press
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JORDAN
BEST
Sade would like to sound like
this; Norah Jones' fans believe she's like this; Dory Previn
used to do this: subversively sweet songs with a startling and
slyly funny acid kick in the pants to the lovers and losers who
have inspired her songs. - The Sunday Telegraph
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TERESA
DE GENNARO
There is a wog in every one
of us, according to Teresa de Gennaro. In her new show Cabaret
Fan Tutti she shares some of her personal experiences growing
up as a "wog" in Australia. - Troy Lennon, The Daily
Telegraph
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