by Johnny Fox | May 14, 2014 | Cabaret
The thing about David Bedella is you’ve heard the name but can’t immediately place him: he even plays on this with cabaret audiences who aren’t sure where they’ve seen him. With his striking saturnine looks and rich and remarkable baritone you think he must be a...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 6, 2014 | Cabaret, Reviews
Edith Giovanna Gassion known as Piaf died when I was ten. There can therefore be few audience members for tribute performances who heard her live other than those whose parents also carried their half-sleeping forms to a late concert. Yet as a performing icon she...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 1, 2014 | Cabaret, Circus
I blame Cirque du Soleil. Ever since they invented the glossy noisy empty brand that repackages hapless East European balancing acts into an £80-a-ticket oversell it has no longer been acceptable merely to don a pair of spangly tights to dance without a net upon the...
by This Is Cabaret | Jul 8, 2013 | Burlesque, Cabaret, Drag, Features
As Matt Smith has announced his departure as the eleventh Doctor Who, there is a gaping hole in the Tardis where the most famous Time Lord of them all should be. When he regenerates at Christmas, whose face will appear where Smith’s once was? It is not for us to...
by This Is Cabaret | Jun 20, 2013 | Burlesque, Editorial, Features
It seems as though every week cabaret is faced with another huge organisation that wants to get involved but in an apparently feckless manner. This month it is the turn of that venerable institution the National Trust who are jumping on the cabaret bandwagon by...
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