Finalists for 10th Annual Cabaret Showcase
The 10th Annual Cabaret Showcase announces its twelve finalists from across Australia to compete at the grand final on Saturday December 22 at The Basement, Sydney.
Following preliminary heats on Tuesday December 18 and Wednesday December 19, the 12 finalists are:
From Sydney -
Melody Beck, 4th year student of Music (Performance)/Arts (Theatre) atUNSW who has played leading roles in numerous productions including AIDA:The Musical and winner of Sheen Family Prize for Performance and Patience Isaacs Award – Music Performance.
Natalie Carboni, trained in the US at Broadway Theatre Project (Tampa, Florida) and Broadway Classroom (New York), winner of Prestigious Contemporary Singer Of the Year (McDonalds Performing Arts Challenge), with theatre credits including Tick Tick Boom, Rent, Charlie Brown, Chicago, Diamond Eye and West Side Story.
Mara Lazzarotto Davis, Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) University of Wollongong, has performed in Company and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, at Brisbane Arts Festival and This is not Art Festival, and also music directed and performed in Re: Medea and Pre-Paradise Sorry Now.
Daniel Downing, Advanced RAD Ballet andNIDA graduate (Dip. Music Theatre) with notable music and film credits including Wicked, La Creole and The Great Gatsby.
Kerrie Anne Greenland, WAAPA Graduate with multiple theatre credits at WAAPA including Into The Woods, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Violet, Crazy for you You, Grimms Tale, Ragtime and Cabaret.
Amelia Ryan, VCA and NIDA graduate, recent performances include Storm in a D Cup (Cabaret) and numerous theatre credits with Squeaky Floor Productions, Echelong and Tony Bones Entertainment.
Maryann Wright, Performance Studies major graduate from the University of Sydney, with international theatre credits including: Footloose (University College London Musical Theatre Society), Blue Monday and Maryann and Cosi. She was a Grand Finalist in the 9th Annual Cabaret Showcase and Semi finalist in the 2010 Rob Guest Endowment Award.
From Melbourne -
Karin Danger, a Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre) graduate at Ballarat Arts Academy with Associate Diploma in Musical Theatre at Trinity College, London. Theatre credits include World War Wonderful (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Australian Horror Story and St Ali’s Musical Variety Night (Melbourne Cabaret Festival). Nominated for Greenroom Award for Best Original Songs in Cabaret.
Emma Clair Ford, Bachelor of Arts, Music Theatre Performance graduate at University ofBallarat, and she performed in The Petticoat Soiree, Butterscotch (Melbourne Cabaret Fest), and with Opera Australia.
Duo act, Andrew Strano, VCA Music Theatre graduate and theatre credits including Cinderella, Rock Me Galileo/Wipeout!. He was also a semi-finalist in the Rob Guest Endowment Awards (2009 and 2010) and won Danceworld 301 Award of Diligence, with Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer, Bachelor of Music (with Honours) graduate at Melbourne University, an orchestral musician with Victorian Opera, GFO, TML, Production Co., also a Composer/Arranger with Melbourne String Ensemble, Melbourne Fringe Festival and a Conductor/Musical Director in Doctor Zhivago and Strange Bedfellows.
and from Brisbane -
Bradley McCaw, all round musician (bass guitar, drums, tenor,), soloist with Ten Tenors and credit as has multiple theatre credits with Judith Wright Centre, Schonell Theatre, Ignations, La Boitte Theatre and Starlight Theatre.
Youett said “This year's Cabaret Showcase Grand Final is set to include some of the best and most diverse talent in the history of the event, with 11 acts traveling from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria to take part. Across the board, the standard of talent this year has been incredibly high and the judges are going to have a tough decision on Saturday. With the assistance of some of the country’s leading creative professionals in the field of Cabaret, we have been able to curate a Final that will be interesting, funny and moving. I look forward to taking one lucky act across to New York, as well as around Australia in 2013 to tour their show. They are all sensational acts and I can't wait for Australia and the Broadway community to see the winner in action!"”
This year’s winner will receive the biggest prize package in Showcase history including the opportunity to perform a newly devised solo show at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, The Melbourne Cabaret Festival, The Noosa Long Weekend Festival, The Ballarat and Brisbane Cabaret Festivals and in New York at The New York Musical Theatre Festival, all with flights and accommodation. The Ron and Margaret Dobell Foundation will once again provide a cash prize of $1000, as well as providing travel and accommodation for the New York journey and also for Melbourne heat winners to attend the Sydney Grand Final. The winner will also receive a photographic and design package courtesy of Blueprint Studios, plus publicity for their tour courtesy of IP Publicity.
The Grand Final will be held at The Basement on Saturday 22 December.
Cabaret Showcase Grand Final:
The Basement
7 Macquarie Place, Sydney NSW
For Dining Options: www.thebasement.com.au or phone 02 9251 2797
Saturday December 22nd from 8pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Advance Bookings All Tickets $40 / $45 at the door
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