All-star line-up to reunite for 2023 Adelaide Cabaret Festival

In an announcement in the present day, the Adelaide Pageant Centre mentioned Ceberano, Campbell, Good, Zemiro, McGregor and fellow former Cabaret Pageant creative administrators Tina Enviornment, Alan Cumming, Julia Holt and Lisa Campbell will all curate and/or carry out exhibits within the June 9-24 pageant, which coincides with the centre’s 50^th anniversary. The one ex-AD not concerned is Barry Humphries, who directed the occasion for one 12 months in 2015.

“These unbelievable artists have all formed Adelaide Cabaret Pageant’s legacy and to be celebrating Adelaide Pageant Centre’s 50^th birthday with all of them will make it one heck of a celebration,” pageant government producer Alex Sinclair says of the Cabaret Collective.

The Pageant Centre has introduced the Cabaret Pageant yearly since 2001, with performers over time together with Olivia Newton-John, Molly Ringwald, Natalie Cole, Anthony Warlow, Dita Von Teese and Patti LuPone. In the present day’s announcement was accompanied by statements from a variety of the taking part former creative administrators, together with Good, who was co-artistic director with McGregor in 2016-17.

“I first carried out at Adelaide Cabaret Pageant in 2003 and fell in love with this notion of a pageant that not solely celebrates cabaret however permits folks to attach with artists from so many alternative genres. There’s nothing prefer it in Australia,” he says.

“It’s a daring experiment having so many people coming again however I’m all in for an experiment. It’s a good way to discover cabaret, look again at what’s been carried out previously but additionally look ahead collectively.”

Cabaret Pageant former creative administrators David and Lisa Campbell. Photograph: Claudio Raschella

David and Lisa Campbell say working at Cabaret Pageant has been a profession spotlight for each of them, whereas Holt, who was the pageant’s inaugural creative director and held the function till 2008, says that from the start these concerned within the occasion may sense “a creative wave of unbelievable power, enthusiasm and experience that’s the modern artform of cabaret”.

“It’s an absolute honour and private delight to be in such stellar firm with the guy creative administrators because the Cabaret Collective to, once more, have a good time in Adelaide, the artists and audiences who enrich our lives, join our shared humanity and make the get together swing,” Holt says.

The 2023 Cabaret Pageant will run from June 9-24, kicking off with the Selection Gala on the Pageant Theatre on June 9 (tickets on sale from 10am Monday). The total program is predicted to be introduced in late March.