Barry Lenny - Page 62

Harriet Allcroft came to the attention of Adelaide audiences when she appeared in a show case performance following one of the Adelaide Cabaret Summer Schools. She extended this short performance into a full length cabaret show which she titled Barely Legal. she is back with a new show based on her observations during the four years that she has been working in the retail sector.

Barb Jungr made a very welcome return to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, her last visit having been in 2006, when she presented her unique interpretations of the songs of Bob Dillon. Together with her musical director, accompanist, and co-writer, Simon Wallace, her performance consisted of a combination of interpretations of songs by several other famous singers, and a number of her own songs.

Stephen Sondheim has written songs for many crazy people in his musicals, some permanently so, and some pushed beyond their limits by circumstances who become temporarily that way. Sondheim's music is often exceptionally difficult and a classically trained trio, Blake Parham and Tahlia Ries, accompanied by Joshua Mollart on keyboard, is an ideal combination to do his work justice.

Barry Lenny talks to Barb Jungr, who is appearing at the 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Rachel Rai and Claire McEvoy, aided and abetted by accompanist Aaron Nash at the piano, presented Tears on My Pillow: Cry Another Day, a sequel to their earlier hit show, Tears on My Pillow: Cry Harder, that was presented at the 2013 Adelaide Fringe and completely sold out.

The Adelaide Festival Centre was opened in 1973 by then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and the Premier of South Australia at that time, Don Dunstan. To celebrate that opening, the Adelaide Festival Centre and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra jointly presented this sensational concert.

The Marie Clark Musical Theatre Company have chosen a show that is not often performed in Adelaide. The last time that I saw this show was in 1982, where I watched it every night from my place in the orchestra pit, and I have fond memories of that production. Happily, this group kept that memory alive and well, with a very fine performance.

Maestro Antonio Fava is the world's leading practitioner and teacher of the 16th Century Italian comic art form, Commedia dell'Art. This is a brief profile, gleaned from the conversations during a dinner in his honour, containing fascinating information that you will not read in any biographies that you will find on the Internet.

In his short 32 years Schubert composed an enormous amount of music, including over 600 lieder (songs), nine symphonies, including his famous Symphony No. 8 in B minor, the Unfinished Symphony. This concert was performed by soprano Emma Horwood, male alto Matthew Rutty, tenor Martin Penhale, and bass Timothy Marks, accompanied by Jamie Cock on piano, who also played two solo works during the evening.