Divino in A CRASSICAL TRIBUTE
After their sell out Christmas season Divino is back at The Butterfly Club
with their brand new show A CRASSICAL TRIBUTE. These three stunning young
tenors are more than just a sleazy European boy band, their hilarious and
exciting cabaret incorporates songs from artists such as Frank Sinatra,
Simon and Garfunkle and of course Il Divo. Don't for a second think you'll
be receiving a boring opera recital, because this outrageous and funny show
breaks all the boundaries! Dates: Fridays and Saturdays from 9 March (9/10, 16/17, 23/24,
30/31), all shows at 10.30 pm
Ticket price: $25 full / $20 concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com
or telephone 9690 2000
Duration: One hour approx
Kathryn Turner in HIGHLY STRUNG: A SOPRANO'S LAMENT
Karaoke tracks, backing singers, arias in a pop music key opera-star
wannabes think chords are fashion accessories and coloratura is contagious!
One classical soprano has had enough - at the ends of the cadenzas, this is
the lady with the licence to trill! Kathryn Turner shares the dilemmas of a
diva in an hysterical parody of the modern world of opera. The pitch is
back!
* With apologies to Puccini, Mozart, Verdi and Monty Python. Dates: Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 March, all shows at 7.00 pm
Ticket price: $20 full / $15 concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000
Duration: One hour approx
THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
The freaks are back in a sneak preview of their upcoming Comedy Festival
show - two shows only!
THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (Winners, Best Ensemble - 2006 Green Room Awards, Best
Cabaret - 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival) feature Mark Jones, Adam Murphy
and Karlis Zaid as a cast of murderers, sado-masochists, necrophiliacs,
philatelists, prison bitches and Seventh-Day Adventists. Audiences have been
held in titillated terror, from The Famous Spiegeltent, to the Malthouse
Theatre, to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and beyond. Now it's your chance
to get up close and very personal with the boys.
"They sing with the voices of choir boys, a hilarious contrast to their
songs ... there's a little of the beautiful loser in all of us" -
Inpress Magazine
"A glorious dissection of the dregs of life" - DB Magazine,
Adelaide
"Combines brains and the profane ... a creeping underground hit" -
The Age Dates: Friday 16 and Saturday 17 March, both shows at 9.00 pm
Ticket price: $25 full / $20 concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000
Duration: One hour approx
TINA DEL TWISTE
A welcome return season from one of the most talked about shows of the
Midsumma Festival.
Starring Wes Snelling and Stephen Weir, directed by Andrea Powell.
Tina is interested in the blues, the jazz, the music. She has been
performing globally on stage and her screen for over 50 years. Not bitter,
but quite twisted. She recently returned to the stage that once graced her
to a sellout season during the Melbourne Cabaret Festival. The current talk
about town having performed at The Famous Speigeltent and The Arts Centre to
name two, she is an experience not to be missed.
"Velvet-dipped dagger wit" - Aussietheatre.com
"A beautiful singer with impeccable timing" - Vibewire
"Fabulousness" - The Age
"Super fabulous" - Herald Sun
"I must apologise for my overuse of the word 'fabulous' " -
Inpress Magazine Dates: Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 March, all shows at 9.00 pm
Ticket price: $22 full / $18 concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000
Duration: One hour approx
Cara McDonald in REVEALING CLEARY
Revealing Miss Cara Cleary or McDonald whatever floats your boat!
Cara explodes back onto The Butterfly Club stage with her new show REVEALING
CLEARY. Charismatic and outrageous, this VCA grad amuses and delights with
her random theories on a random life. Sharing the intimacy of The Butterfly
Club with her handbag, teddy bear and massive heart, Cara invites you all to
drink like a toy and undress wherever the hell you like!
A little quirky, a little sassy, a little inappropriate REVEALING
CLEARY. Dates / times: Thursday 29 March to Sunday 1 April, all shows at 7.00 pm
Tickets: $20 full / $15 concession-holders and for group bookings of 8 or
more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000
Duration: One hour approx
Damian Rebgetz in ANTHONASIUS NOW!
Directed by Lisa Sontag.
After a long, long rest at the Underworld Hotel Motel, Anthonasius returns
to the wide night air, 'a little dark star on the wind down there'.
Anthonasius? Anthonasius Who? Anthonasius What? Anthonasius NOW! He's alive,
wandering and wondering.
Fresh from cabaret mayhem in Berlin, Damian Rebgetz returns to The Butterfly
Club as Anthonasius with James Simpson as Jakob Apfelbck on piano.
Featuring new arrangements of music by Kurt Weill as well as Schubert,
Schumann, Purcell, Tucholsky and Wagner. Dates / times: Thursday 29 March to Sunday 1 April, all shows at 9.00
pm
Tickets: $20 full / $15 concession-holders and for group bookings of 8 or
more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000
Duration: One hour approx
REGULAR NIGHTS
Ali McGregor's MIDNIGHT LULLABIES
Fresh from La Clique and The Opera Burlesque, acclaimed soprano Ali McGregor
and her autoharp enter the sometimes eerie world of the Midnight Lullaby.
From Tom Waits to Hugo Wolf, Radiohead to Russian folk song, Ali will be
joined by well known guests from the Melbourne comedy and music scene.
Ali, a principal soprano at Opera Australia for more than five years, adds
her classical experience to her flair for original interpretations of rock,
pop and indie standards. Her version of Radiohead's Creep was featured on
ABC's Spicks and Specks (of which she is now a regular panel member).
" a slender, luscious, doe-eyed, man-eater made of the finest
Dresden china" - Sunday Times UK Dates / times: Wednesday 21 March at 8.00 pm (2nd last Wednesday of every
month until Wed 23 May)
Tickets: $25 full / $20 concession-holders and for group bookings of 8 or
more
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000
Duration: One hour approx
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. Hostess Miss Louie 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! Dates / times: Wednesday 28 March at 8.00 pm (last Wednesday of every
month)
Tickets: $10 at the door / $13 to reserve a seat
Bookings: Email miss_louie [at] drsketchymelbourne.com or online at www.drsketchymelbourne.com
Duration: Two hours approx
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
(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 for season one (until Wed 25 April) $90 or $10 a week for casual
membership
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 0419 547 740
Duration: One hour approx
Sharon Sclarr in SHAMEFUL Shame, shame, shame. Shame on you.
An eccentric look at the media and its woebegone ways. Has celebrity really
become the new religion? Returning to The Butterfly Club after two hit shows
in 2006 comes Sharon Sclarr in SHAMEFUL. Ian Thorpe, Tori Spelling, Jordan
and Peter Andre, Denise Drysdale. No-one is left unscathed. No-one. Sharon
Sclarr presents a kooky and melodromatic cocktail of characters. With her
captivating voice, this zany take of the highly (ahem) regarded pop
entertainment industry is far from straight-laced. "A zesty stage
presence" - Melbourne Stage Dates: Thursday 5 to Sunday 15 April (performances Thursdays to
Sundays), all shows at 7.00 pm Ticket price: $15 full / $10
concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com
or telephone 9690 2000 Duration: One hour approx
Steven Burrows in WOULD UMA EAT IT?
Would Uma eat it? Isn't that the question on everybody's lips? Luckily
Stevie B has put in a concerted effort to answer the question while others
have toiled away at paid work. WOULD UMA EAT IT? tells the story of one
man's small yet overwhelming insights into life, gleaned from an intense and
purposeful pitter-patter along the undervalued paths in life. From the
fluffy sensibilities of doona shopping in Melbourne's finest shopping
emporium to the cultural intricacies of a Singapore cruise ship and the
highs and lows of an intense yoga workout. WOULD UMA EAT IT? is a big
sparkly solo show packed with pure goodness and all the razzle-dazzle of
Vegas minus the equally sparkly showgirls. Dates: Thursday 5 to Sunday 15 April (performances Thursdays to
Sundays), all shows at 9.00 pm Ticket price: $20 full / $15
concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com
or telephone 9690 2000 Duration: One hour approx
Benn Bennett IN A BALTIC STATE
I remember escaping the former Soviet Union armed with a jar of coleslaw. I
encountered a Frank Zappa tribute band in Vilnius, as well as the dissecting
of a mud crab in Yalta. Confused, I decided to become a spy and take notes
in an attempt to define how it must feel to be Eastern European. Join Benn
Bennett as he reflects upon an abstract journey that blends songs with
spoken word poetry and traditional Ukrainian dance. "You are the class,
he is the lecturer. Do NOT take notes." Dates: Fridays and Saturdays of the Comedy Festival (6th, 7th, 13th,
14th, 20th, 21st, 27th, 28th April) all shows at 10.30 pm Ticket price: $20
full / $15 concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com
or telephone 9690 2000 Duration: One hour approx
Ali McGregor's MIDNIGHT LULLABIES
Fresh from La Clique and The Opera Burlesque, acclaimed soprano Ali McGregor
and her autoharp enter the sometimes eerie world of the Midnight Lullaby.
From Tom Waits to Hugo Wolf, Radiohead to Russian folk song, Ali will be
joined by well known guests from the Melbourne comedy and music scene.
Ali, a principal soprano at Opera Australia for more than five years, adds
her classical experience to her flair for original interpretations of rock,
pop and indie standards. Her version of Radiohead's Creep was featured on
ABC's Spicks and Specks (of which she is now a regular panel member).
" a slender, luscious, doe-eyed, man-eater made of the finest
Dresden china" - Sunday Times UK Dates / times: Wednesday 18 April at 8.00 pm Tickets: $25 full / $20
concession-holders and for group bookings of 8 or more Bookings:
www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000 Duration: One hour approx
More info: www.myspace.com/operaburlesque
Karin Muiznieks in CAN'T AFFORD A REAL SHOW? Karin Muiznieks makes her Comedy Festival debut in CAN'T AFFORD A
REAL SHOW?, an all-singing, some-dancing, no-spending round-the-world
musical theatre extravaganza with a budget barely large enough to purchase
one malnourished and confused lab rat. The music is shamelessly upbeat and
eclectic, drawing on everything from Edith Piaf to Family Guy. The result is
a marvellous realisation of a near-impossible dream: a quirky and upbeat
musical adventure with no sets, no costumes, no microphones, no 'because we
can' nudity and no surprise cameos from the Red Hot Chili Peppers yet. Dates: Thursday 19 to Sunday 29 April (performances Thursdays to
Sundays), all shows at 7.00 pm Ticket price: $20 full / $15
concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more Bookings:
www.thebutterflyclub.com or telephone 9690 2000 Duration: One hour approx
THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS present FRESH FILTH The freaks are back! THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS return with an all-new
horror show of male depravity for 2007, featuring Mark Jones, Adam Murphy
and Karlis Zaid as a cast of murderers, sado-masochists, necrophiliacs,
philatelists, prison bitches and Seventh-Day Adventists. Audiences have been
held in titillated terror, from The Famous Spiegeltent, to the Malthouse
Theatre, to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and beyond. Now it's your chance
to get up close and very personal with the boys, in the most horrifyingly
funny show of the Festival.
Winners, Best Ensemble - 2006 Green Room Awards Best Cabaret - 2005
Melbourne Fringe Festival
"They sing with the voices of choir boys, a hilarious contrast to their
songs ... there's a little of the beautiful loser in all of us" -
Inpress Magazine "A glorious dissection of the dregs of life" - DB
Magazine, Adelaide "Combines brains and the profane ... a creeping
underground hit" - The Age Dates: Thursday 19 to Sunday 29 April (performances Thursdays to
Sundays), all shows at 9.00 pm Ticket price: $25 full / $20
concession-holders and for groups of 8 or more Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com
or telephone 9690 2000 Duration: One hour approx
THE BUTTERFLY CLUB
204 Bank Street, South Melbourne 3205
Wednesday through Sunday from 6.00 pm til late
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