Adelaide Cabaret Festival Announces All-Star Lineup of Artistic Directors & The Variety Gala
Adelaide Cabaret Festival is today announcing an all-star line-up of Artistic Directors (that’s right, there’s more than one!) and The 2023 Variety Gala on sale, as Adelaide Festival Centre celebrates turning 50 next year.
The Cabaret Collective, featuring previous artistic directors – Julia Holt, David Campbell and Lisa Campbell, Kate Ceberano, Eddie Perfect, Ali McGregor, Julia Zemiro, Alan Cumming and Tina Arena – will each play a role in next year’s festival by curating or performing shows from their cabaret genres (or both) for Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s stellar 2023 program.
To kick it off, the festival’s favourite red-carpet Variety Gala returns with a very special reunion and appearances by iconic artists Kate Ceberano, David Campbell, Eddie Perfect, Julia Zemiro, Ali McGregor and many more at the Festival Theatre on June 9. Tickets are on sale from 10am Monday, November 21.
As Adelaide Festival Centre gets set to celebrate its 50th Anniversary in June, this one-night-only spectacle will be full of surprises and more cabaret revelry, glittering glamour, and star power than ever before.
Working at Adelaide Cabaret Festival has been a career highlight for us both, and to be asked back to be part of the Cabaret Collective is an honour. We cannot wait to work alongside the other incredible Artistic Directors – to create the most exciting programme so far! – David and Lisa Campbell
The Hon Andrea Michaels MP, Minister for Arts said: “I am delighted to be welcoming back to Adelaide the stellar line-up of previous Artistic Directors of our much-loved Adelaide Cabaret Festival to curate the 2023 program. This is just one of the ways the wonderful Adelaide Festival Centre, a national arts icon, will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2023. Under the visionary ambition of Premier Don Dunstan, in 1973, Adelaide Festival Centre first put us on the map as a city where arts and culture flourish. As the first capital city arts centre to open in Australia, I am proud to be celebrating this significant milestone.”
Eddie Perfect added: I first performed at Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2003 and fell in love with this notion of a festival that not only celebrates cabaret but allows people to connect with artists from so many different genres. There’s nothing like it in Australia. It’s a bold experiment having so many of us coming back but I’m all in for an experiment. It’s a great way to explore cabaret, look back at what’s been done in the past but also look forward together.
Produced and presented by Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Cabaret Festival has grown from modest beginnings in 2001 to become Australia’s major winter festival and the largest cabaret festival in the world.
The festival has been a platform for shows and performers who have achieved critical acclaim and featured world-renowned artists including Ms Lisa Fischer, Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Dita Von Teese and Patti LuPone to name a few.
Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2023 opens on June 9 and runs until June 24
Tickets for The 2023 Variety Gala on sale from 10am on Monday, November 21 adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au / 131 246
