SHOWTUNE PRODUCTIONS

MEDIA 2003

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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