With an inventory of rotating DJs and sizzling hosts, The Piña Colada Room is a late-night Cabaret Competition after-party set within the Well-known Spiegeltent on the exceedingly taking place Competition Plaza. It’s billed as a homage to the icons of disco, and you may anticipate dancing till effectively after midnight.
As a stellar decide for opening night time, the sensationally bawdy and dreamily beautiful Reuben Kaye was our hostess with the mostess. Kaye is staring in his personal sold-out, one-night-only Dwell and Intimate present later within the pageant, and Spiegeltent revellers had been handled to a further stay and intimate efficiency. One famous “silver fox” within the viewers acquired a very stay and intimate efficiency, having the room in stitches.
Kaye was merely mesmerising, and never just for his characteristically fabulous eyelashes and a focus to glitz – he’s acquired basic celebrity high quality, and it’s thrilling to assume that the subsequent host at The Piña Colada Room, and all of the others, are prone to be his equal.
DJ Rautie, an everyday at large Adelaide festivals like WOMADelaide, pulled out his ’70s vinyl for the night time, a trick that’s prone to work on most dance flooring anyplace on this planet. Adore it or hate it, disco’s a protected guess for folks decided to bop, however with hints of rockabilly, soul and one thing a bit Caribbean, Rautie threw in some surprises.
And that is totally becoming of an evening the place Catherine Alcorn and Phil Scott (starring collectively in 30 One thing, a present the place re-imagined modern songs lead audiences to the gangster-era speakeasies of Sydney’s Kings Cross) carried out a mash up of Woman Gaga’s “Born this Manner” and The Andrew Sisters’ “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Undoubtedly not disco, however does it matter? It was a great deal of enjoyable, and interpretation is, in spite of everything, what cabaret’s about.
Equally, Trevor Jones, staring in free nightcap performances known as Piano Man, gave us a glimpse of his tackle Elton John’s “Bennie and the Jets”. Once more, not disco, however he discovered a fan on this reviewer and I purpose to take a look at his set on the Quartet Bar, the place I’m advised he takes requests.
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Additionally performing was Jack Buchanan from the New Zealand manufacturing Don Juan. In white button-down shirt and trousers, he would possibly’ve missed the costume code, however boy did he sing.
With a hopping bar simply outdoors the Spiegeltent that lets you take your drinks in, The Piña Colada Room opens its doorways at 10.30pm, fostering a kicking-on mentality. As a result of who actually desires to go house after a cabaret present?
The Piña Colada Room is in The Well-known Spiegeltent each weekend till June 26 as a part of the 2022 Adelaide Cabaret Competition.
See all InReview’s protection of the 2022 Cabaret Competition right here.
The Piña Colada Room. Photograph: Claudio Raschella
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