The line-up for this year's Opening Gala of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival has been annoinced. The Gala will take place on Wednesday, June 26th at the iconic PALAIS THEATRE (Lower Esplanade, St Kilda Vic - 61 3 9525 3240). Headlining the star-studded line-up will be Motown royalty and founding member of The Supremes, Mary Wilson, alongside five other international acts and a stellar line-up of Australian performers. Ms Wilson will be performing excerpts from Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Project, which will be staged at Melbourne Recital Centre on June 28th. New York cabaret icon, Joey Arias, will showcase his channelling of legendary jazz and blues singer, Billie Holiday. The grandson of the American musical theatre virtuoso Richard Rodgers, USA's Tony Award winning theatre composer/lyricist ADAM GUETTEL - composer of the acclaimed The Light in The Piazza - takes to the stage with Haley Bond. USA's award-winning composer/performer, David Pomeranz, who has sold over 40 million albums worldwide, stars in excerpts from his show Chaplin: A Life - in Concert, based on the life story of the cinematic genius.
From London comes jazz harp goddess, Tara Minton. Following the knock-out success of his 2012 show, Candice McQueen: Nasty!, cabaret star SPANKY returns with a foretaste of his new show. They will be joined on the Gala bill by Trevor Ashley and Rhonda Burchmore from the adults-only panto Little Orphan TrAshley. Melbourne's very own diva extraordinaire and cabaret provocateur, Yana Alana, graces our stage in a bent cabaret of blues, burlesque and blame. And from Queensland comes winner of the 2012 Australian Cabaret Showcase, composer, playwright and performer, Bradley Mccaw. Tickets to the Gala and After-Party are available from Ticketmaster.
From London comes jazz harp goddess, Tara Minton. Following the knock-out success of his 2012 show, Candice McQueen: Nasty!, cabaret star SPANKY returns with a foretaste of his new show. They will be joined on the Gala bill by Trevor Ashley and Rhonda Burchmore from the adults-only panto Little Orphan TrAshley. Melbourne's very own diva extraordinaire and cabaret provocateur, Yana Alana, graces our stage in a bent cabaret of blues, burlesque and blame. And from Queensland comes winner of the 2012 Australian Cabaret Showcase, composer, playwright and performer, Bradley Mccaw. Tickets to the Gala and After-Party are available from Ticketmaster.
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