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ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 2007

- Cabaret evening with Jeremy Sams
- Workshop

Dates: 8-23 June 2007
Venue: Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, AUS

Festival Director: Julia HOLT

See below for more details about the two events

FESTIVAL'S FACTS & FIGURES:

This 7th ACF features more than 450 local and international artists (from the US, France, the UK, Germany and Canada) performing in 68 different shows across 16 days. 12 international artists are appearing in Australia for the first time, while 8 new shows have been created especially for the event.

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On Sunday 10 June Philip Quast was the Special Guest of the weekly programme Broadway @ Bedtime on Joy Radio (94.9, Melbourne). Listen to some key audioclips from the programme on our Audio Page (THANKS, Gregor!!).

INTRODUCTION
One of the most rapidly rising stars of the Australian music events is the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Since its inception in 2001 it has received rave reviews from the media, audiences and performers for its fabulous atmosphere.

Cabaret as a performance style is personal, funny, sad and close to the bone, evolving through many years and many different cultures, from the Moulin Rouge days of Paris through to German Kabarett, the English music halls and the New York cabaret clubs. It is opinionated, political, personal and essentially human storytelling - the electric connection between the performer and the audience.

Every June, the Adelaide Festival Centre complex is transformed into seven different cabaret venues plus bars, cafes, restaurants, clubs and comfy nooks to chat and enjoy a drink. The venues have tables and chairs and the audience may take drinks with them into the performances.

This year's programme includes Australian stars Phil Scott, Eddie Perfect, Bob Downe, Janet Seidel, Julie Anthony & Simon Gallaher, Paul Capsis and Women with Standards, while the international contingent includes Michael Feinstein, Isabelle Georges & Frederik Steenbrink, Tony DeSare, Maude Maggart and Caroline Nin.

(Main source: SouthAustralia.com)

Listen to a short excerpt from artistic director Julia Holt's announcement of some of this year's Festival highlights (from Broadway @ Bedtime, 22 April 2007).

Saturday 9 June, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
AN EVENING WITH JEREMY SAMS with Special Guest Philip Quast

Other Guests: Simon Burke, Kaye Tuckerman, Johanna Allen & Douglas McNicol.

Musicians: Matthew Carey (piano), Samantha Hennessey (flute), Jaclyn Hale (clarinet), Pippa Strickland (double bass)

"An evening of song and anecdotes (...) a treasure trove of musical selections from the many shows that Jeremy has been involved with, such as Michel Legrand's Amour and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as well as favourites by Stephen Sondheim and Kurt Weill" (from the Festival programme).

Philip Quast sung 'Some Enchanted Evening/Hello Young Lovers' (from South Pacific/The King & I), the folk song 'Shenendoah' (see box), 'The Sound of Your Name', 'I Was Here' (from The Glorious Ones) and -with Simon Burke- 'Lily's Eyes' (from The Secret Garden).

Monday 11 June, Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
WORKSHOP WITH PHILIP QUAST

Participants: Cherie Boogaart, Deborah Caddy, Adam Goodburn, Melissa Hann, David Lampard & Ben Rasheed.

"Performance methods for narrative songs. A wonderful learning experience for anyone interested in acting for musical theatre" (from the Festival programme).

Accompanist Matthew Carey was an active collaborator of both Philip Quast and Jeremy Sams in their cabaret and masterclasses. Later this year Matt will musically direct the South Australian premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins. Visit Matt's blog for further updates.

The 8th Adelaide Cabaret Festival will take place from 6-15 June 2008 at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

JEREMY SAMS, 50, is a British director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director, film composer and lyricist. He has written, arranged, and directed music for some 50 theatre productions in the UK and on Broadway, including the translation/adaptation of Legrand's musical Amour and the adaptation for the London stage of the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Most recently he directed the revival of The Sound of Music, currently running to packed houses at the London Palladium.

Sams has been nominated for several Tony and Olivier Awards along his career.

Philip Quast worked with Sams in the 1990 NT production of Sunday in the Park with George.

Read a recent Interview with Jeremy published on BlazeMedia Magazine. Here's an excerpt where Sams talks about working with Philip Quast:

When he really opens up and sings there's no-one like him (...). I still remember his audition [for Sunday in the Park with George]. He opened his mouth and this amazing sound came out and everyone just bowed down before him.

'Shenendoah' is an American folk song, dating to the early 19th century. The lyrics tell the story of a roving trader in love with the daughter of an Indian chief; the rover tells the chief of his intent to take the girl with him far to the west, across the Missouri River.

Mark Shenton's views about the Adelaide Cabaret Festival:

... two glorious weeks that offer a magnificent endorsement of the art and craft of this most intimate and rewarding of performance genres. Unlike the Edinburgh festival (...) this is a far more defined, specialised festival that is both more contained and containable and reaches the parts - and most particularly, your heart and soul - that other artforms often fail to.
Under the expert curatorial eye of festival director Julia Holt, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival is even remarkably funded to the tune of some half a million Australian dollars a year by the state government. It provides both Australian artists and audiences a platform from which to develop their appreciation of and skills in the genre, bolstered as it is by foreign visitors (...) and with audience figures that exceed 40,000.

(Source: The Stage)

Read Mark Shenton's day-by-day coverage of the 2007 Festival

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