by Ken Sparkes | Mar 3, 2013 | Burlesque, Circus, Photos, Supperclub, Variety
While the epic Boom Boom Club is on hiatus, their spot at the Café de Paris is taken by new production The Black Cat Cabaret featuring some members of the Club both on and off stage. Last Friday saw the final show for the Black Cat’s opening cast and I was there...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Aug 27, 2012 | Reviews
I’m not sure I want to know what a dissolute deviant like Dusty Limits does in his spare time, when he’s not hosting Britain’s foremost revues. Judging from Post-Mortem, the latest in a series of solo shows developed with pianist Michael Roulston, at least some of...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Aug 12, 2012 | Reviews
After 14 years on and off the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Bongo Club Cabaret can rightfully claim the “pioneer” epithet. It may have missed the first inclusion of the genre as a separate category in the festival’s programme last year, but it was here long before...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Jul 21, 2012 | Reviews
Every new season of Boom Boom Club is a milestone in British cabaret. Since it abandoned a weekly format in 2011 to reinvent itself as a franchise of self-contained performance events, the seminal variety show has experimented with the genre in unusual venues like the...
by Franco Milazzo | May 30, 2012 | Variety
Call it musical Marmite or a kitsch collision of disco, nationalism, outré fashion and downright weirdness, there’s no doubt Eurovision has a special place in many people’s hearts. Alternative Eurovision, traditionally held on Eurovision Eve since 2010 has...
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