Kim Smith, Antoinette Kurban & More Set For Butterfly Club Upcoming Season

Butterfly Club's 10th birthday show is THIS SUNDAY! The line-up (including Tim Minchin and Colin Lane) is at www.thebutterflyclubmelbourne.blogspot.com

Bookings: www.comedyfestival.com.au or phone Ticketmaster on 1300 660 013

Cabaret cocktail of the month:
‘The Wildside', a celebratory cocktail in honour of Jon Jackson's welcome return to the stage this month!

Looking ahead:
Emerging enfant terrible of New York cabaret, Kim Smith (2009 Backstage Bistro award winner) returns to The Butterfly Club on 19 and 20 June with his latest dark and whimsical offering, Morphium.

COFFEE WITH MISS ANTOINETTE
Some people do drugs, sex, alcohol. Antoinette Kurban does Coffee. Tales of infamous coffee dates, Edward Cullen, Starbucks and possibly air balloons, all over a nice hot cup of coffee with Miss Antoinette on a rainy Melbourne afternoon. This baby faced sweet heart with her soulful sounds knows how to warm up your evening.

Dates: Thursday 30 April to Sunday 3 May (four performances)
Times: 7.00 pm Thurs - Sat, 6.00 pm Sunday
Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 50 minutes approx

Hayley Binks in MEAT HAYLEY'S HEART
A cabaret about the slicing, dicing and pulverizing of the love muscle. MEAT HAYLEY'S HEART is a combination of rock, pop, folk, musical theatre songs and some tragic anecdotes to illustrate the stages of love and their similarities to meat preparation.

Dates: Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 May (four performances)
Times: 7.00 pm Thurs - Sat, 6.00 pm Sunday
Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

Fernando Ariel Gallardo in THE MAN IN THE CORRIDOR
A return season of musical tales that will make you think about the one that got away and the banging from the couple next door.

In the corridor he loiters at night. Dancing with one foot inside the door, the other in her dirty high heel. Singing songs for her, he becomes her. Left with a suitcase of questions and the clothes he thought she would have taken with her, he's just glad you could make it over for a drink.

Tonight is not just another game of dress ups ... he never liked what she wore anyway. Tonight he has finally left the suburban apartment block and headed for The Butterfly Club, where he wants to recall a few musical tales with old friend Duncan McBride on piano, that will make you think about the one that got away and the banging from the couple next door. Grab a drink and slip into something comfortable.

Written and performed by Fernando Ariel Gallardo. Fernando is the winner of the 2008 City of Perth Award For Most Innovative Act as part of duo Beautiful Rubble and performer and co-maker of 2008 Butterfly Club Sell Out Smash and 2007 Melbourne Fringe highlight I've Written A Letter to Daddy.

Dates: Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 May (four performances)
Times: 9.00 pm Thurs - Sat, 8.00 pm Sunday
Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

Melissa Langton, Mark Jones & Libby O'Donovan
EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY MONKEY
The Lennon and McCartney Songbook

Ever buy a Beatles CD? Enjoy a good bed-in? Ever sing the na na na na bit in Hey Jude? Want to give peace a chance? Fancy a one legged ex-model? Does ‘All My Loving' bring back uncomfortable memories of Johnny Young and the Young Talent Team? Breathe in oxygen and exhale Carbon Dioxide? Got opposable thumbs? This is the show for you!!

The people that brought you such semi-award winning shows as ‘The Fabulous Singlettes', ‘The Beautiful Losers', ‘Three Weill Men', ‘Me and Mr Jones' and ‘Flat On Your Bacharach' are combining forces for an all out assault on Lennon and McCartney - but they'll be using their powers for good not evil as they rip into the likes of Lady Madonna, Live and Let Die, The Long and Winding Road, Get Back, Eleanor Rigby, Got to Get You Into My Life, Imagine, Honey Pie, All You Need is Love, Let it Be and Baby You Can Drive My Car ... mm beep beep, mm beep beep, yeah!

Warning this show may contain traces of Mull of Kintyre.

Dates: Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May (two performances)
Times: 10.30 pm
Ticket price: $27 full / $22 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

Emma Clair Ford in THE BLACK SEA EXPRESS
Jane is an idealist. Jane is a hopeless romantic. Jane just spent two years planning the perfect European experience.

But Jane is about to learn that it only takes a moment of spontaneity on a bliss-bound Italian train to make a pretty little mess of her liberation.

Honest, warm and endearingly flawed, The Black Sea Express proves that when it comes to matters of the heart, nothing is black and white.

Dates: Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 May (four performances)
Times: 7.00 pm Thurs - Sat, 6.00 pm Sunday
Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 50 minutes approx

Justin Clausen in FABTASTIX: BEHIND THE PEARLS
Are you ready to take a peek at the darker side of home wares? Join Justin Fabtastix as he guides you through the ins, the outs, the ups and the downs of the craze that is home ware supplies with the Brighton house wives ... Behind the pearls!

Accompanied by James Simpson on piano.

Dates: Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 May (four performances)
Times: 9.00 pm Thurs - Sat, 8.00 pm Sunday
Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

CREATING SOLO CABARETS - PERFORMANCE NIGHT
Graduates of the recent Creating Solo Cabarets course present extracts from their developing shows: an eclectic, unexpected and entertaining evening of performances from emerging cabaret artists.
Directed by Kim Edwards

Dates: Wednesday 20 May (one performance)
Times: 8.00 pm
Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

THE GEORGE AND SVETLANA SHOW
George and Svetlana present an evening of sultry, toe tapping entertainment accompanied by the musically dexterous piano Guy. However, the show becomes unstuck as the unhappy truth of their marriage bleeds onto the stage, with devastatingly funny results.

The George and Svetlana Show is the bastard child of Commedia dell'Arte, vaudeville, cabaret and contemporary clowning.

Dates: Thursday 21 to Sunday 31 May (eight performances Thurs to Sun)
Times: 7.00 pm Thurs - Sat, 6.00 pm Sundays
Ticket price: $22 full / $17 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 50 minutes approx

CAMPING OUT with KAYE SERA
Drag personality, Kaye Sera introduces you to the camp scene of Melbourne in the 1960s. Val's Coffee Lounge, the Windsor and the infamous Australia Hotel were but three of the many rendezvous sites for the discerning socialite.

Featuring the songs of Dusty Springfield, Judy Garland and the recently passed Eartha Kitt along film interviews from the people who were there.

Dates: Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 May (three performances)
Times: 9.00 pm
Ticket price: $27 full / $22 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

JACQUI & HELEN'S SLUMBER PARTY
You are most cordially invited to attend Jacqui & Helen's Slumber Party!
Why: Who doesn't love slumber parties? Let Jacqui Hoy & Helen Patterson take you on a musical journey through their bedroom of unearthly nocturnal delights. Rock out to a plethora of hairbrush-microphone classics and chocolate-coated love songs. Hear Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin & Billy Joel pillow-fighting until the dawn. Don't miss the chance to see these two outstanding performers (Jacqui & Helen, not Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin) and one of their husbands in their natural habitat. Pyjamas not included.

Dates: Friday 22 and Saturday 23 May (two performances)
Times: 10.30 pm
Ticket price: $27
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

Katrina Talbot is SLEEPING HER WAY TO THE TOP
Katrina Talbot is 35 and is wondering what the bleep happened.

After touring with Mamma Mia for four years Kat found she needed another four years to recover. Seeing as she can't afford therapy she is doing this cabaret instead.

Come along and hear some bloody great songs, some funny stories, have a laugh, a cry and most importantly have a beer!

Dates: Sunday 24 May (one performance)
Times: 8.00 pm
Ticket price: $27 full / $22 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

Jon Jackson in WALK ON THE WILDSIDE
WALK ON THE WILDSIDE revisits favourite musical moments from the eclectic career of one of Australia's best vocal performers. A career which saw him triumph as a soloist with the St Petersburg State Symphony one week and singing to drunks in a Fitzroy pub the next.

From opera favourites to jazz, music theatre and even to country music, Jon delivers them all with his unique style and humour. WALK ON THE WILDSIDE brings him back to what he does best - entertaining audiences with his amazing voice.

Jon is classically trained blessed with an enormous vocal range - from bass-baritone to soprano and all stops in between. He hits the high notes of an operatic diva, purrs like Peggy Lee, growls like Eartha Kitt, and wallows in the depths like Johnny Cash.

As the flamboyant front man for comic trio Great Big Opera Company Jon performed all around Australia and overseas from 1988 until the group's final season at Singapore's Raffle's Hotel in 1998. This was followed by several solo shows and a career as a singer and librettist with Opera Australia.

Dates: Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 May (four performances)
Time: 9.00 pm Thu - Sat, 8.00 pm Sunday
Ticket price: $27 full / $22 concession and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 60 minutes approx

REGULAR NIGHTS

DR SKETCHY'S ANTI-ART SCHOOL
DR SKETCHY'S is what happens when cabaret meets art school. The perfect antidote for boring, typical art classes. Host Mel Knight brings fun, excitement and a bit of cheek back to life drawing with kooky contests and bodacious burlesque beauties. We don't mind if you draw for your supper or just for fun, we are happy to have you! So forget your easels and messy mediums, just bring a sketch pad and your pencils!

"Dr Sketchy's will cure you of every boring art class you've ever been to" - The Sunday Age

Dates / times: Wednesday 27 May at 8.00 pm (last Wed of every month)
Tickets: $15
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
Duration: 2 hours approx
More info: www.drsketchymelbourne.com

THE BUTTERFLY GLEE CLUB
Forget yoga. Forget All-Bran. Forget colonic irrigation. If you really want to do something that makes you feel good inside - just SING. And what better place to sing out than at THE BUTTERFLY GLEE CLUB, the hippest sing-along choir in town. Come along and sing as loudly or softly as you like - there are no solos and no karaoke microphones - just a big ol' group sing. THE BUTTERFLY GLEE CLUB is conducted by the gorgeous and talented Vicky Jacobs (MulTi Green Room Award Nominee for Musical Direction) who never tells anyone off and lets all singers drink as much wine during rehearsal as they like!

"An inspired group sing-a-long" - Beat Magazine
"A rad singalong choir" - The Pun

Dates / times: Wednesdays at 6.30 pm
Tickets: $10
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or at the door
More info: go to www.myspace.com/butterflygleeclub or email glee.club@optusnet.com.au
Duration: one hour approx

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Tel 9690 2000
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