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June 26, 2010

Campbell’s Cabaret ends with a bang

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Cabaret

June 26, 2010

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2010
until June 26.

Stephen Schwartz and Friends
June 23.

Newley Discovered
Hugh Sheridan
June 24

Caroline O’Connor: A Musical Life
June 26

Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.

The tenth Adelaide Cabaret Festival has closed on some high notes and some big numbers. In his second year as Artistic Director David Campbell has further boosted the reputation and the reach of this highly successful winter solstice event. With record attendances and sell-out shows, it …

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June 19, 2010

Godot Calling

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Interviews

June, 2010

Actor Roger Rees talks to Murray Bramwell about  his current role  in the touring Theatre Royal Haymarket production of Waiting for Godot.

In the three and a half weeks between the end of the London season of Waiting For Godot and beginning previews in Melbourne, where I spoke to him by phone, Welsh-born, US- based actor, Roger Rees has been working his way around the world.

“I’ve come straight from Canada, “ he explains, “I have been …

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June 01, 2010

Almost Coolsville

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Music

June 1, 2010

Rickie Lee Jones
Her Majesty’s
June 1.

When it was released, in 1979, the debut album from Rickie Lee Jones seemed to have everything.  Produced by Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman when Warner Brothers was at the height of its patronage and creativity, it included  a line-up of the hottest session musicians of the day – among them Dr John, Tom Scott, Andy Newmark, even – on synthesizer – Randy Newman. It was an auspicious event. Those …

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