The Garden Sets 2016 Program; Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Australia's most unique and engaging outdoor performing arts precinct - today announces their program for 2016, with over 100 shows across 13 venues featuring 43 Australian premieres, 1310 ticketed sessions and 31 free events.

The Garden team travel the world year-round to find the very best award-winning shows and the most inventive and exciting new works to present to our audience including the return of the hit show VELVET, an informative and hilarious master class about wanking and the remake of a Spielberg classic.

Some of the many highlights of our 2016 program include:

The return of THE hottest show on the global festival circuit, Velvet, featuring legendary diva Marcia Hines in the best disco party of your life.

Artist and author of 'Wank Bank', the tell-all memoir of a happy ending masseur in New York City, Rural Ranga brings the informative and playful: Wank Bank Master Class.

Massive hit shows have their Australian premieres at The Garden including the high-octane dance show Untapped, Bunk Puppets' surreal comedy dubbed 'Wondrous' by The New York Times Tink Tank, laugh-out-loud spin on Spielberg's classic Jurrasic Park Dinosaur Park, and international mind bender Colin Cloud.

Massaoke - the Edinburgh Fringe smash hit brings karaoke on mass to Australia for the first time plus world-renowned circus from Casus with their award-winning show Knee Deep and Fringe favourite A Simple Space by Gravity and Other Myths.

Comedy superstars Wil Anderson, Rich Hall (USA), Abandoman (IRE), Dave Hughes, Sammy J and Randy, Sam Simmons, Axis of Awesome, Nazeem Hussain, Chopper's Republic of Anzakistan, Best of the Edinburgh Fest (UK), Eddie Ifft (USA) and Hannah Gadsby all perform new shows in The Garden in 2016.

This year The Garden presents an incredible music lineup including Colin Hay, Kate Miller Heidke, iOTA, Kate Ceberano, Jo Lawry, Jon Stevens, Z-Star, Russell Morris, The Black Sorrows and Darren Middleton (Powderfinger).

Once again The Garden's cabaret game is strong with new shows from favourites Puddles Pity Party, Le Gateau Chocolat, EastEnd Cabaret and Adelaide's own Hans plus The Garden introduces audiences to the new cabaret queen Leah Shelton in PULPSHOW

Families don't miss out either with a huge program for kids including gown-up entertainers making amazingly fun shows for children including: Children are Stinky by Circus Trick Tease, Heath Franklin and Harley Breen in Captain Fun Pants and The Mystery of the FunOmatic Fun Wand, Frank Woodley with his show Noodlenut, Le Gateau Chocolat's tale of identity and belonging, Duckie, and Tessa Waters' How To Be a Rockstar.

As is in tradition, 2016 will host a hoard of exciting brand new artists to The Garden including The Guardian's First Dog on The Moon, Rowena Hutson with Strong Female Character, Shirley Gnome (CAN), Betty Grumble, Butt Kapinski (USA), Juan Vesuvius in Calypso Nights: Juan, Two? (NZ) and Stuart Bowden.

As The Garden's first foray into the world of visual arts, the wonderfully funny WTF Renaissance exhibition will delight and amuse.

The Garden is the place for fun-filled family days and nights bursting with stars.

Notes to editor:

TICKETS ON SALE ON 02 DECEMBER 2015
Bookings: gardenofunearthlydelights.com.au

ABOUT THE GARDEN: More than 700,000 people visit The Garden every season and its popularity continues to grow every year. This incredible event, with its warm and inviting vintage carnival feel, is admired across the globe and people all over the world have tried to replicate it but The Garden's heart remains where it all began, here in South Australia.

THE GARDEN'S 2016 PROGRAM

Macumbia!
A Simple Space by Gravity & Other Myths
Abandoman - Life and Rhymes
Ah Hum! - SABOREA LA VIDA
Amazing Drumming Monkeys - The" Tree" show
Amelia Ryan is Lady Liberty
An Evening with First Dog on the Moon
Arrr we there yet?!
BankSA Free Concert Series
Best of the Edinburgh Fest
Big Top Bonanza
Butt Kapinski
Calypso Nights - Juan, Two?
Captain Fun Pants and the Mystery of the FunOmatic Fun Wand
Children are Stinky
Chopper's Republic of Anzakistan
Circus Trick Tease - Straya
Colin Cloud - Kills
Colin Hay Live
COSMONAUT by Ryan Good
CULT
Darren Middleton
Dave Hughes - Sweet
Dave Thornton - So On and So Forth
David Quirk - Approaching Perfection
Defrosted
Demi Lardner - Life Mechanic
Dinosaur Park
DivaLicious - A Licence to Trill
DJ Phone Home
Duckie - Le Gateau Chocolat
EastEnd Cabaret - Perverts
Eddie ifft - Excess Baggage
EUROWISION
Exposing Edith
Frank Woodley - Noodlenut
Germein Sisters
Grumble - Sex Clown Saves The World
Hannah Gadsby - Dogmatic
Harley Breen - Smell the Penguins
Heartache and Drum Breaks
Heckle!
How to be a Rock Star
Ian D Montfort - Ian Talk
If You See Her, Say Hello
iOTA - Wolf Number Nine
Ivan Aristeguieta's Chorizo Sizzle
Jo Lawry live at the Spiegeltent
Jon Stevens
Jonny Woo and Le Gateau Chocolat - A Night At The Musicals
Justin Hamilton - Hoot
Kate Ceberano
Kate Fuller - Hop, Skip, Swing
Kate Miller-Heidke
Kids Just Wanna Have Fun - back to the 80's
Knee Deep
MASSAOKE
Michael Griffiths - Cole
Miles and Simone
Monski Mouse's Baby Disco Dance Hall
Nath Valvo - Tongue in cheek
NAZEEM HUSSAIN - HUSSAIN IN THE MEMBRANE
Peter and Bambi Heaven, The Magic Inside
Peter Combe - BIG KIDS NIGHT OUT REVISITED!
Peter Combe - MR CLICKETTY CANE PLAYS CHOPSTICKS
Peter Helliar - One Hot Mess
Puddles Pity Party - Potluck
PULPSHOW
Rich Hall
Russell Morris
Sam Simmons - Not A People Person
Sammy J and Randy Land
SEASTAR ROCK
Shirley Gnome - C*untry Music
Simon Taylor - Human
Starman
Strong Female Character
Stuart Bowden - She Was Probably Not A Robot
Tessa Waters Over Promises
The Amy Winehouse Show - Back to Black
The Audreys
The Axis of Awesome - Won't Ever Not Stop Giving Up
The Black Sorrows
The Garden Sessions
The Gremlins
The Lone Star Show - Proudly Support beyondblue
The Pierce Brothers
The Singhing Sisters present - Opera Meets Jazz
The Stand Up Show
Tink Tank
Tolu
Tom Ballard - The World Keeps Happening
Tom Binns - The Club Sets
Tom Gleeson - Great
Tommy Little - Dickhead
Tony Roberts - Card Magic - One Night Only!
Trash Test Dummies
UNTAPPED
VELVET
Viva Hans Vegas
Wank Bank Master Class
Wil Anderson - Fire at Wil
WTF Renaissance
Yeti's Demon Dive Bar
Z-Star (UK) with Special Guest Samuel Marzola

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