In his Adelaide Fringe debut, Reuben Solo bounds onto the scene and immediately sprains an ankle. He valiantly forges on to perform one of the most unique comedy shows of […]
February 5, 2023
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Jeff Dunham – Passively Aggressive Tour
Record-breaking, global comedy superstar, Jeff Dunham, is bringing his cast of characters on the road this September, as America’s favourite ventriloquist tours Australia and New Zealand with his Passively Aggressive tour.
Dunham released his latest standup special, Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster, on Netflix this year. The special features Dunham along with his ill-behaved and slightly demented posse of characters for a gleeful skewering of family and politics. Dunham and his famous cohorts Walter, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Bubba J, and Peanut also consider what a new member to their already dysfunctional family could mean, putting the ‘relative’ in Relative Disaster.
Dunham, a Guinness World Record holder for “Most Tickets Sold for a Stand-up Comedy Tour,” has built an entertainment empire over years of non-stop touring and innovation. With over a million YouTube subscribers amassing over a billion views, he has carved out his own unique space in the comedy world leading to record-breaking viewership with his comedy specials on Comedy Central and other networks.
Dunham’s contribution to the world of show business and comedy has recently been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, commemorating over two decades of superstardom.
“When I moved to Los Angeles in 1988 with a car full of clothes and a couple of dummies, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that one day I would be tripping over my own star on the Walk of Fame. It’s truly fantastic and a great honour; I just hope it’s not in front of an adult store. Okay, actually, that would be hilarious.” – DUNHAM
Don’t miss your chance to see Jeff Dunham LIVE!
“…the most popular stand-up comedian in the US…” TIME MAGAZINE
Triage! A Nursing Cabaret: DISCHARGED!
Ever busted out a ballad to the beat of a heart monitor in the middle of the ICU?
Welcome to world Triage’s brand new show DISCHARGED! Following a sold out international tour, Australia’s favourite Registered Nurse and Soul Diva Zule returns to Adelaide with even more nursing secrets, stories and soul! Nominated for Fringe World Festival’s Best Cabaret Award, don’t miss your chance to see this award winning artist!
Don’t miss out on your tickets! Strictly limited season!
“Zule has this amazing stage presence & charisma which makes you want to smile, dance & sing along with her…” Have A Go News 2018
Tomfoolery – The Words and Music of Tom Lehrer
TOMFOOLERY – The Words and Music of Tom Lehrer
Adapted by Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray. Musical arrangements by Chris Walker and Robert Fisher.
Tomfoolery, the words and music of acclaimed American musician, singer-songwriter satirist and Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer, returns to Adelaide for a limited five performance season. The show is being reprised for a 10th Anniversary tribute to the late Michael Fuller, director and choreographer of the sell-out 2008 Adelaide Fringe season of Tomfoolery at La Boheme.
Directed by Nicholas Cannon and starring Catherine Campbell, Hew Parham and Sean Weatherly with chamber pianist Mark Sandon, the show features performances of 23 of Lehrer’s most famous songs including: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Pollution, I Got it From Agnes, National Brotherhood Week, The Masochism Tango, The Old Dope Peddler, The Vatican Rag and We Will All Go Together When We Go. Also included will be the five songs which the deeply conservative Playford and McEwin Liberal Government controversially banned from performance by Lehrer here in Adelaide in 1960.
The banned songs: Be Prepared, My Home Town, When You are Old and Grey, The Irish Ballad and I Hold Your Hand In Mine were all considered to be too naughty and controversial for the genteel sensibilities of Adelaide audiences.
The Advertiser reported that Sir Lyell McEwin called Lehrer ‘Ghoul singer’ whilst years later Lehrer told The Advertiser the ban was ‘the high point of my career’.
Producer Sean Weatherly ponders if Adelaide is ready to hear the five songs the Government banned from being performed in 1960, ‘Perhaps the show will provide a test for Steven Marshall’s ‘tough on crime’ policies, when we will deliberately defy that proclamation banning the five songs. When you listen to the songs today, almost 60 year later, it’s very hard to tell why they were banned at all, but they are still clever pieces’.
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