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Here is the full interview with Christian Charisiou who is playing the role of Jeff Hart in The Wedding Singer.

It’s 1985. Hair is big, collars are up, and a Wedding Singer might just be the coolest guy in the room!

Based on the smash-hit Hollywood film starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, comes a hilarious musical comedy that celebrates all the fun of the 80’s.

It’s playing at the Atheneum Theatre in Melbourne from 13 May to 5 June 2021.

BELLA GREEN IS CHARGING FOR IT is a re-worked show of one woman’s experience of working in the sex industry. A winner of Best Comedy at Melbourne Fringe 2018, Bella Green is Charging for It is a narrative of stand-up comedy and jokes. Bella Green discusses how she came to work in comedy, the different reactions she encounters in the show and the conundrum of dealing with positive hecklers. But what did Bella say in her show that made her mum blush?

This episode features music from John Kander and Fred Ebb, aka Kander and Ebb, including: All That Jazz (Chita Riveria), Show People (Curtains), Go Back Home (Audra McDonald), I Wrote the Book (Lauren Bacall), New York, New York (Liza Minelli), But the World Goes (Matt Bogart), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Kim Criswell), Boom Ditty Boom (70 Girls 70), My Colouring Book (Barbra Streisand), Nowadays (Karen Ziemba), and Willing to Ride (Caroline O’Connor).

The Cabaret Room celebrates the 20th Birthday of ‘Melbourne cultural institution’, The Butterfly Club. Special guests Simone Palsa, Alice Tovey and Anna Piper Scott talk about performing at the venue and what to expect at the 20th Birthday show coming up on the 25th November.

Music includes: Hungry & Horny (Jude Perl), NBN Rollout (Sammy J), Tomboy or Badass (Tash York), Sit Stay Shake (Alice Tovey), I’m Un-Australian (Sammy J), Singing This Song (Gillian Cosgriff), and I Have a Face (Jude Perl).

In this episode of The Cabaret Room, Peter and Jessamae explore the works of creative duos Pasek & Paul and Ahrens & Flaherty.

Having first started working together at the University of Michigan, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have gone on to write music for James and the Giant Peach, Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, Smash, The Greatest Showman and La La Land.

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty first teamed up in 1988 and have provided the music for Broadway musicals Ragtime and Anastasia and the movie Camp (among others). Ahrens & Flaherty were inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2015.

Music in this episode includes: Back To Before (Ahrens & Flaherty, Original Broadway cast recording of Ragtime), Go Back Up Again (Pasek & Paul, Anna Kendrick from Trolls movie), Come Alive (Pasek & Paul, Hugh Jackman from The Greatest Showman), Someone In the Crowd (Pasek & Paul, La La Land), So Big, So Small (Pasek & Paul, Original Broadway cast recording of Dear Evan Hansen), Once On This Island (Ahrens & Flaherty, Once On This Island), Ballerina (Ahrens & Flaherty, performed by Stephanie J Block on the Nice Fighting You: A 30th Anniversary Celebration Live at 54 Below), Middle of the Moment (Pasek & Paul, Elise McCann from James and the Giant Peach), Pretty Funny (Lindsay Mendez from Dogfight), Running Home to You (Pasek & Paul, Musical episode of The Flash), The Genius on Cleveland Street (Pasek & Paul, A Christmas Story Live), Caught in a Storm (Katherine McPhee from Smash) and Close But No Cigar (Ahrens & Flaherty, Annelie Ashford).



 

In this episode of The Cabaret Room special guest, pianist and Sondheim-aficionado Cameron Thomas join Vince and Daniel in paying tribute to the genius of Stephen Sondheim.   Music includes:  Not While I’m Around (Sweeney Todd), Company (Company), Sunday (Sunday in the Park with George), Opening Doors (Merrily We Roll Along), Stay With Me (Bernadette Peters), and Loosing My Mind (Liza Minelli).

The Mega-Church of DREAMSONG has been hit hard by the Recession, so Pastor Sunday, the head Pastor at the church of DreamSong concocts a plan to bring his church back into the spotlight! But will the true Jesus see his actions as Holy?  In the Cabaret Room this week Olivia Charalambous (Jesus), Nicola Bowman (April Sunday), and Dean Robertson (Executive Producer) spoke about the EbbFlow Theatre Co. production, the characters, and re-writing the score to suit a “lady-Jesus”.  DreamSong is an playing at the Alex Theatre, St Kilda.