Podcasts about Melbourne Cabaret Festival

Alister Kingsley is a musical comedian, actor and organisationally challenged person in recovery. In “Get It Together” he makes his return to the Melbourne Cabaret Festival with a show full... LEARN MORE The post Alister Kingsley appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

Welcome to episode two of The Tune Up: Mama Alto on the Radical Potential of Storytelling and Strength in Softness - brought to you by Melbourne Recital Centre. Hosts Maxim Boon and Megan Steller speak with gender-transcendent diva and cabaret artiste Mama Alto about the power and potential of storytelling through song, how vulnerability builds strength in humankind and the inclusivity of contemporary cabaret. About Mama Alto: Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste & gender transcendent diva. Fierce, femme and fabulous, she has performed at beloved venues including The Butterfly Club, Brisbane Powerhouse, Chapel off Chapel, The Famous Spiegeltent, Gluttony, Hares & Hyenas, The Melba Spiegeltent, Melbourne Recital Centre, the National Gallery of Victoria, Porcelain Tea Parlour & more, and festivals such as Adelaide Cabaret Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Feast (Adelaide), Emerging Writers Festival, Festival of Voices (Hobart), Marysville Jazz & Blues, Melbourne Cabaret Festival, Melbourne Fringe, Midsumma (Melbourne), Stonnington Jazz, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Wonderland (Brisbane) & more. In 2018, she released four studio albums on vinyl, CD and digital release, all recorded with original analogue 1950s recording equipment. Vinyls & CDs are available here, and you can find Mama on Spotify, Apple Music, and many other popular streaming platforms. About your hosts Maxim Boon and Megan Steller: Maxim Boon is a British composer, writer and critic who has been based in Australia since 2014. When he's not ensconced in a concert hall or writing about Melbourne's music scene, he can mostly be found taking selfies with his dog. Megan Steller is an artist manager, writer and producer, who spends most of her time talking about classical music. She occasionally gets really enthusiastic at the symphony and claps in the wrong spot, but she's working on it. Find more stories about the music, musicians and people that make Melbourne Recital Centre the best place to hear at soundescapes.melbournerecital.com.au

Guests in the Cabaret Room this episode include Aaron Taylor, Owen Clarke & Lucinda Barratt from Cloc Musical Theatre‘s Kinky Boots, and two shows from the upcoming Melbourne Cabaret Festival... LEARN MORE The post Kinky Boots, The Age of Stephen and What's Love Got to do With It? appeared first on The Cabaret Room.

Listen along with the 'NIC, TYS AND VIDEOTAPE ULTIMATE 90'S MOVIE MUSIC PLAYLIST' on SPOTIFY here:  https://open.spotify.com/user/22fpdxwy3jai3wq7rv6dzwkky/playlist/416js9js4fgbiPisQg4Opg?si=rT4XDkCAQTy4Kn6KEXg4xw   LISTEN ON RADIO PUBLIC!!  https://radiopublic.com/nic-tys-and-videotape-a-movie-pod-WaV5PM Welcome to a very special episode of Nic, Tys and Videotape! This week, we're joined by performer and Melbourne Cabaret Festival ambassador Drew Downing as we talk about the songs that we still spin from the decade of movies that defined us. It's the ULTIMATE 90'S MOVIE MUSIC PLAYLIST!! And we've made this episode extra special by adding an interactive element into the mix... We've created a SPOTIFY playlist!!! Click the link above to listen to the songs as we discuss them so you can join in the fun and reminisce on a decade full of great tunes and great movies.   PLUS! We weren't planning on doing our regular segments this week, but then STAR WARS happened, so you get bonus Talkin' Trailers! What a deal!! As always, here are the ways to get in touch with us if you would like to suggest a film for us to talk about, a different topic you would like us to rank, or to ask a question to be featured in our MAILBAGsegment: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nictysvideotape Twitter - https://twitter.com/nictysvideotape Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nic_tys_and_videotape/ Email - nictysandvideotape@gmail.com and don't forget to RATE/REVIEWus on iTunes so we can get the word out and keep building this ace community of movie lovers all over the world!!! https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/nic-tys-and-videotape/id1204292008?mt=2 You can also subscribe to Nic, Tys and Videotape on YouTube by visiting the following link:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaus3hn3D8WfTxeOC_07zZA NOW UPDATED WEEKLY!   FOLLOW NIC AND TYS ON LETTERBOXD! https://letterboxd.com/nic_videotape/ https://letterboxd.com/tys_videotape/   Thanks as always to Jac D for our artwork and Zac for our rockin' theme music. Find more information about the MELBOURNE CABARET FESTIVAL by visiting http://www.melbournecabaret.com, and purchase tickets to Drew Downing's Ultimate 90's Playlist here: https://chapeloffchapel.com.au/show/ultimate-90s-playlist/ NEXT WEEK!!! We're reaching an incredible milestone that we were never sure we'd make... 100 episodes. And to celebrate, we can think of nothing better than having a big ol' sit-down to discuss AVENGERS: ENDGAME!!!!! See you there :)

US author Amy Bloom on her latest novel White Houses. Plus US cognitive scientist Vera Tobin on the science of plot and why we like surprises in fiction, book news, and Louisa Fitzhardinge performs a song from her Melbourne Cabaret Festival show Comma Sutra.

Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly). Melbourne Cabaret Festival The ninth annual Melbourne Cabaret Festival bursts onto the stage with some of the most fabulous and seductive cabaret from across Australia. Returning to Chapel Off Chapel with an even bigger program, up to 10 performances daily, from Tuesday 19 June to Sunday 1 July 2018. Featuring 20 brand new cabaret shows, the festival again provides an opportunity to see new works from established and emerging artists before they tour to take on the national and world festival stages. For more details, visit: http://www.melbournecabaret.com/ Theatre First RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4839371.rss Subscribe, rate and review Theatre First at all good podcatcher apps, including Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Stitcher, Pocket Casts, audioBoom, CastBox.FM, Podbean etc. If you're enjoying Theatre First podcast, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you. #theatre #stage #reviews #melbourne #australia #cabaret #melbournecabaretfestival #festival #alexfirst #theatrefirst #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maeve Marsden is a writer, producer and theatremaker, focusing on comedy, cabaret, live music and storytelling.  Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret about Gin, a theatrical cabaret Maeve wrote and performs in has sold out seasons at Sydney Festival, Perth Fringe World, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Festival of Voices (Tasmania), Melbourne Cabaret Festival, the Sydney Opera House, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Underbelly Festival, London, as well as regional seasons in Australia and the UK. Mother’s Ruin was named one of Time Out’s Best 10 Shows on Sydney Stages 2017. Winner Best Cabaret, Sydney Fringe 2016, Lady Sings it Better, a feminist comedy cabaret act Maeve directs and performs in has been touring to critical acclaim for 8 years, with seasons at Sydney Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Festival of Voices (Tasmania) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, among others.  Maeve also hosts and programs Queerstories, a storytelling event and podcast that features members of the LGBTQI community, has been running monthly at Giant Dwarf in Sydney since September 2016, with satellite events in Melbourne and Brisbane. Winner Best Spoken Word, Sydney Fringe 2016, Queerstories has sold out every month since its inception, and has welcomed Australian LGBTQI icons to its stage. As a child of same-sex parents, Maeve is passionate about the rights of diverse families, and she writes and speaks on the issue often. As a writer, her work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Junkee, ABC Online, SBS Online, ArtsHub, Daily Review, Archer Magazine and Audrey Journal. In 2018, she edited at the ABC’s Sydney Mardi Gras 40th Anniversary Magazine, and she is currently editing a book for Queerstories, due for release with Hachette Australia in 2018. Maeve likes gin, dancing, cheese and TV melodramas with good ethics and bad dialogue. In this episode: We chat about leaving the day job and moving into being a full-time artist.  The importance of a long-term strategy and taking time to work on a show's development.  We then delve deep into what it really takes to have a SOLD OUT season at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and what it took to achieve that.

We preview the Melbourne Cabaret Festival with artistic director Dolly Diamond and live performances, we travel to Hobart to attend Night Mass — Dark Mofo's "liturgical rave", choreographer and student Isabella Whāwhai Mason discusses her "performance ritual" that separates audiences based on their skin colour, and Canadian theatre star Ramin Karimloo performs live ahead of his Melbourne and Sydney concerts with Anna O'Byrne.

Dano & Mason had the wonderful Alyce Platt in the studio this week, to talk about her upcoming show ‘Someone’s Daughter’, as part of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival. Listen to the podcast for the inside […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_danoandmason/p/joy.org.au/danoandmason/wp-content/uploads/sites/329/2018/06/Alycep.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:11 — 18.5MB) The post Someone’s Daughter appeared first on Dano and Mason.

This week's podcast features the return of 'Drawn Out', our monthly comics segment withBernard Caleo. Bernard introduces us to new Australian indie comicEyes Too Dry by Jessica Tavassoli and Alice Chiplin, described as "a graphic memoir about heavy feelings". Richard and Bernard discuss old Doctor Who, new Flintstones andDark Hope Essence, the latest in the Dark Hope series with a story by Sabine Schmidt and illustrated by Philip Spinks.Curator of the Monash Gallery of ArtStephen Zagalajoins Richard to talkUnder the sun:Reimagining Max Dupain's 'Sunbaker'. This 1930s imageiswidely recognised as iconic to Anglo-Australian culture and in this exhibition 15 contemporary Australian artists from diverse ages, gender and ethnic backgrounds are invited to respond to the photograph. The results are a mixture of sculpture, photography, abstract and faithful, examining the current culture of Australia in relation to this classic image.It's almost time for the Melbourne Cabaret Festival again, and this year stalwart of Australian cabaretDolly Diamond is taking the reins as Artistic Director. Dolly joins Richard to give a preview of the wide girth of the festival this year, as well as her particular interests in cabaret as an art form. Fabulous!

WE DID IT! After a guerilla season of Bang On The Strillers live at The Butterfly Club in January 2016, Quinn put her welfare cheque where her mouth is an coralled some of the best cabaret writers/singer/performers in the industry together to record a live show as part of the 2016 Melbourne Cabaret Festival. Featuring Mike McLeish, Michelle Brasier and original songs from Astrid & Otto Rot (aka Die Roten Punkte), Karlis Zaid (and Karin Muiznieks), Shanon Whitelock (who also played house band) and myself - I even wrote a song specially for the show! Thanks to Chapel Off Chapel and to Mike McLeish for being so supportive with the project, and to the audience who came, and specially to the audience to PAID to come. Forgive the mic blow outs, I couldn't afford someone to ride the mix, but it still sounds like a great bootleg and if you get behind us, we'll only get better. Considering I basically pulled this show out of my arse in the middle of a horrible cold, with a brand new all original show opening two days later, it's a wonder I don't have my own TV show to populate with my talented friends. ENJOY! And please support the podcast. Share, rate, and soon I hope you can also donate. Songs featured in the recording included the following copyrighted material from the original songwriters involved in the show: Hair That You Wear - words & music Karlis Zaid; Flasher - words & music Karin Muiznieks; I Live for Music Theatre - words & music Geraldine Quinn; Bi-Polar Rhapsody - words & music Shanon Whitelock; Cabaret Overlord - words & music Geraldine Quinn; Love Songs - words & music Geraldine Quinn; Burger Store Dinosaur - words & music Die Roten Punkte (aka Astrid & Otto); Astrid's Drinking song - words & music Die Roten Punkte (aka Astrid & Otto); You Love It - words & music by Geraldine Quinn; All other text and farting around written by or made up by the speakers. Please don't rip anyone off for money. We're all independent and these guys agreed to do their original material for the podcast, knowing I make no money from it. So the best thing you can do is buy their stuff and see their shows. They're all really great.

Actor, performance maker and cabaret artiste Ash Flanders (Sisters Grimm) joins me for the second Melbourne Cabaret Festival 2016 special to talk about inbred dogs (yeah, I mean pugs), music theatre cabaret, brothels, stand up versus cabaret, being "safe" onstage, our mutual fascination with John Farnham, Casey Bennetto (again), theatre schools, the glamour of an artist's life, puppy play and how everyone's a failure and THAT'S OK!! And I didn't have too much libelous material out. And why did I say "next week" at the end?? AM I A LUNATIC!?!? If you get onto this early, you can still see Ash Flanders' show 'Playing To Win' at the Melbourne Cabaret Festival 2016 (at 6:45pm until 19 June 2016). I'm going tonight. And the fact I used the present tense is evidence of how hopeful I am that this podcast will upload with no problems (seriously, the amount of tech stuff that has been going awry lately, I'm about to throw my computer out the window and destroy the internet...check out my chipmunk transitions in this ep, thanks to some weird sample rate balls ups). Please do book for our shows ('Playing to Win' until 19 June, 'Bang On The Strillers - Live' on 21 June and 'Fox Poncing' 23-25 June) via www.melbournecabaret.com #IStandByTheArts

*Content warning - We discuss violence in this episode, in the context of writing about dark stories. If you feel like this may be a topic that brings up issues for you,  go back and have a listen to Michelle Brasier's episode - she's a bubbly wonder! Next episode will be ridiculously cheerful. This one's still interesting, however I thought you should know.* Welcome to the first special Melbourne Cabaret Festival episode of the podcast! In between touring with musicals and teaching performance, Karlis Zaid has been splashing about in the dark side of cabaret for years and years. Zaid is currently appearing in the 2016 Melbourne Cabaret Festival with 'Australian Horror Story', as show he originally wrote with Karin Muiznieks in 2012. Since then, he's reworked, rewritten and added content, roped in the magnificent Aurora Sheehan (nee Kurth) and Mark Jones as co-performers and managed to snaffle Steven Gates from Tripod to direct (and I'm not jealous at all) and is re-launching the show in June 2016. From Collingwood vampires being terrified of contracting Hep C to chirpy little songs about capital punishment, Zaid makes some of my output seem hopelessly Pollyanna-esque. Playing 17-19 June 2016 at Chapel Off Chapel. Book through the Melbourne Cabaret Festival website. Sexy people book. And you wanna be sexy, don't you? And thanks for putting up with perhaps a slightly more dodgy sound quality than usual. With the show prep it's been a bit of a rush to get stuff out but there will be a RASH of episodes in June, as we gear up to the festival.

Arts is such an awesome way to stretch understanding; our 2 guests today use a Coyote-like elastic band to stretch gender! First up is Jesse Paradox a person based in Portand, Oregon USA who is also pansexual, trans, a musican, radio broadcaster and educator. Then we have Jessica McKerlie talking about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival and the show therein called Gender Spanner  - as well as talking about a great London LGBTIQA circus and arts house. Also, we still have another $300 to reach the show's radiothon target so donate here (please remember to put Out of the Pan in the description). - See more at: http://www.3cr.org.au/outofthepan/episode-201506211200/gender-diverse-arts-jesse-and-jessica#sthash.9cWClvWl.dpuf

Arts is such an awesome way to stretch understanding; our 2 guests today use a Coyote-like elastic band to stretch gender! First up is Jesse Paradox a person based in Portand, Oregon USA who is also pansexual, trans, a musican, radio broadcaster and educator. Then we have Jessica McKerlie talking about the Melbourne Cabaret Festival and the show therein called Gender Spanner  - as well as talking about a great London LGBTIQA circus and arts house. Also, we still have another $300 to reach the show's radiothon target so donate here (please remember to put Out of the Pan in the description).

Marcus is a versatile singer and actor having performed in Classical music, music theatre, cabaret, film and TV. He has worked with various companies such as Opera Queensland (Sweeny Todd), The Production Company (The king and I, Anything Goes), Melbourne City Opera, Cameron Mackintosh (Miss Saigon Australian tour 2007-2008), and ABC Network (Rewind – Mei Quong Tart). Marcus wrote his one-man cabaret show “Callas Bitch” performing in Sydney and as a headliner in the Melbourne Cabaret Festival (2006). Marcus produced and performed in the vocal group ENCORE and recorded their debut CD ENCORE “LIVE!”- Vincero! Marcus performed in the weekly “Jazz and Broadway” cabaret show at TENO2 Jazz Club (2010 Manila) and the sell-out performance of the “Skarlet Fever” Revue. Marcus is the recipient of the McDonald’s Sydney Eisteddfod’s 2012 “Counter Tenor Award” and is currently working on the counter-tenor repertoire, as well as working and recording an album of Filipino Art Songs “Kundiman”. I am thrilled to have him as a guest on the blog and podcast.  He is so versatile and talented yet so humble and sooooo funny! Marcus shares how he got started in the music industry, breathing techniques that have helped him with his singing, how to connect with the audience when performing and how he keeps himself motivated. He chats about: How to breathe for singing How to relax the tongue Importance of your network  We chat about his latest project as a host for the upcoming Lea Salonga Sydney concert on the 31st of July, 2015. My students will also be part of the production which we are so excited about! If you would like to connect with Marcus and follow his exciting new ventures and up coming shows please visit him on www.marcusrivera.com.