
She sings these love poems in Spanish, French and English, and the sentiments she expresses aren’t defined by any one tongue; certainly the music she has written speaks its own language.

Vincent Hooper is back home in Perth doing a cabaret show he's put together called Stolen Treasures, which bills itself as a foray through forgotten musical theatre and cabaret songs.

Circus Oz, you had me at hello. You completely changed the atmosphere at the Maj from Edwardian playhouse to playful madhouse.

The Little Mermaid is sweet, pleasantly awkward, and very tender. There is a little bit of magic to it too.

Forbidden Broadway is for anyone who has laughed at the inanity of musical theatre, misheard the lyrics, cringed at the campiness, and moaned at the length of Les Mis.

The piece is like a smorgasbord of sound and rhythm, a twenty-four course meal full of the savoury and the dulcet, and let’s not forget, one roast swan and plenty of drink. It’s varied, rhythmic, melodic, playful and dramatic.

Christa Hughes took one of the most eclectic audiences I’ve ever seen (older, younger, rakish, trendy, male, female, other... even aged white-bearded bikies!) and placed them firmly in the palm of her hand.