Reuben Kaye Online

Reuben Kaye’s new Melbourne Fringe show was performed at Assembly Checkpoint in Edinburgh in 2019 and is testament to his amazing talents. He is a sensational cabaret showman with an acerbic tongue and high-camp charm.

After winning a bunch of accolades from the Melbourne Cabaret Festival and the Adelaide Fringe between 2017 and 2019, he has gone on to perform and host on UK Channel 4 and Café de Paris in London, charming the pants off everyone across Europe with his signature style.

Kaye invokes the likes of Gatsby in appearance - svelte and suave, with a filthy sense of humour and makeup that puts RuPaul to shame. He is a double-edged sword and like an eagle catching his prey, yet as sweet as cherry pie when he sings “Sailor Boy” (The Chiffons). His showmanship shines like a diamond, he has deep rooted rock n’roll energy and a voice to match. His version of “Sharp Dressed Man” (ZZ-Top), is legendary.

Kaye knows how to work the crowd like a stand -up comedian, emceeing his own show, honing in on his audience with rambunctious finesse, offering morsels of smutty humour and tantalising snippets of songs on his menu. Twenty minutes in, after a belly full of laughs, he tells us the show has yet to start.

That’s entertainment, and Kaye’s cabaret formula is positively refreshing and energetic. As with all great comedians and rather like the old saying “The chickens have come home to roost”, his backlog of experiences make you shudder at the thought of him as a young gay Jewish boy growing up in the nineties. He is a self -proclaimed “original sinner”. His audiences across the world love his upfront and ‘teeth gnashing style’. The “danger man “in the cabaret world, there is no stopping this newcomer who is already an icon.

Flora Georgiou