Cabaret Royale
Fringe Bar, 26-32 Allen St, Te Aro, Wellington
13/02/2014 - 15/02/2014
Production Details
Dusty Limits is one of the leading lights of the ‘new cabaret’ scene . Time Out, who featured him as a cover model in their special edition on the resurgence of cabaret, described him as ‘The Trailblazer,’ and he has surprised and thrilled audiences from London to New York, Dublin to Berlin with his three-octave vocal range and darkly scintillating wit.
Dusty has also hosted and performed in the ground-breaking Weimar New York produced by Earl Dax and has worked with most of the brightest stars of the modern cabaret world. In both 2012 and 2013 he won the London Cabaret Award for *Best Host/Compere*. He has taught and directed at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and is currently the director and host of the Black Cat Cabaret at the Café de Paris.
Cabaret Royale features singing, comedy, fusion belly dancing, and cabaret’s risque sister burlesque.
Joining Dusty for Cabaret Royale we have for you entertainment:
Pip E Lysaah, Miss Bettsy Rose Lee, Kimberley Grace,Miss Ooh La La Paree,
Azure D'Murre, Mr B Frank, Mystikal Maria, and a special appearance from Ashley Lopez
Musical , Comedy , Cabaret , Boylesque ,
90 mins
A fruit bowl of fabulousness
Review by Maryanne Cathro 15th Feb 2014
Wow, just wow. Sometimes the hardest reviews to write are for the best shows. They sit in the memory whole and delicious, like a ripe strawberry; and having to chew, swallow and digest them in writing seems unnecessary.
Cabaret Royale is a perfect strawberry, and the best fruit of all is Dusty Limits. How lucky we are to have him down in New Zealand for a few short weeks. Everything he says is charming, dirty, funny, or all three. That’s some combo. His opening number, ‘Don’t Tell Mama’ from Cabaret, brings the house down. I mean, this number didn’t even make the movie but the way Dusty sings it, it’s the best song in the show!
But Dusty is not alone in the fruit bowl of fabulousness. Victor Victorious (Eli Joseph) is a generous and entertaining compere and gives us an endearing and wickedly funny number about the perils of being a ‘ginger’.
Other highlight performances include the sizzling Moxie Fizz’s Doctor Who, and Vicky Velour’s perfectly timed and engaging good girl going bad. Felix Goodfellow busts out some Boylesque moves that shock and delight. A last minute sub in from Lady Rosetta Stone improves our knowledge of erotic literature, and Deity Dollichious, a vision in pink, shows her inner black sheep.
A few moments of so-so fare did not linger on the tongue – even the best fruit bowl has an ordinary apple in it, but it is still a good fruit.
There’s no chance to suffer from fructose overload taking this lot on however, if tonight’s audience are anything to go by. With so much energy burned cheering, whooping and clapping in a show of enthusiasm so un-Wellington-like, I feel transported to another place where audiences laugh on the outside too!
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