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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Rumour Has It: Sixty Minutes Inside Adele, performed by Naomi Price, is an hour-long cabaret show packed with fabulous singing and peppery humorous banter.
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- Stephanie Glickman
Disney on Ice is standard July school holiday fare in Melbourne. Its content and quality remain fairly consistent from year to year and it still manages to bring in enthusiastic kids by the thousands.
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- Lee Bemrose
Clad in heels, stockings, bodice and ropes, Jessamae St James makes her entrance with a very traditional sounding song, only she doesn't care about the weather, she just wants her leather.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
Room on the Broom, a story about a flighty witch, her sassy cat and the characters who hitch a ride with them, is currently at the beautiful National Theatre in St Kilda, where it has been playing to a packed house since opening day.
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- Gordana Andjelic-Davila
‘High’ Tea provides a glance into the life of a gifted individual who shined too bright for her own good, and burned out before the world got to know how talented she truly was.
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- Lee Bemrose
The whole show is a completely engaging marriage of graceful, gangly physical humour and moving honesty.
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- Jane Canaway
While the quality of the singing is inconsistent, it hardly matters in what soon becomes a bit of a farce; sometimes the choice of song in itself wins a laugh.
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