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Cabaret in the night is an inner
city delight, so why not
Cabaret in the Day for those
of us in the outer city?
This was the question I asked
Gallery Director John Cheeseman
and myself when this thought
bubble hit me in 2014, and the result was our first
Cabaret in the Day season at Mosman Art Gallery
and exponentially increasing audiences over four
popular matinees.
Personally, I love the concept of an after Sunday
lunch matinée of top professional cabaret,
affordable ticket prices, easy parking, afternoon tea
and mingling with the performers included after
the show and then home by 5pm.
That’s my idea of an ideal Sunday afternoon in
Sydney’s crisp autumn and winter.
Headlining our three musical entertainments is the
extraordinary Glenn Amer: ‘the fingers of Liberace
and the voice of Mario Lanza.’ Glenn is a one man
symphony orchestra and massed choir not to
mention a radio personality in the great Australian
tradition of Jack Davey. Glenn truly is a jack of all
showbiz trades and past master of every single
one!
Mosman’s own Andrew O’Keefe is known
nationwide to millions of viewers as a TV game
show host and effervescent anchor man, but he
is also a stylish singer and comedian. Glenn’s and
Andrew’s sophisticated touch is the perfect fit for
the merry, wicked and charming songs of Michael
Flanders and Donald Swann.
its acclaimed Mosman premiere, Our Glad played
to capacity houses at Glen St Theatre, Hunters Hill
Music, Parramatta Riverside and The Savage Club.
In its now revised and expanded form - those 1947
radio commercials are the gift that keeps on giving!
- Our Glad returns to thrill and amuse everyone who
loves operetta and musical comedy.
Popinjay Productions
and
Mosman Art Gallery
present
It’s with great confidence that Popinjay Productions
and Mosman Art Gallery invite you to enjoy four of
Australia’s most distinguished performers in Cabaret
in the Day 2015.
The lower north shore will indeed be alive with the
sound of music!
Melvyn Morrow
Artistic Director
From 31 May to 5 July this year,
Popinjay Productions and Mosman Art Gallery
present top class cabaret entertainment
which normally plays at night in Sydney CBD
cabaret venues for prices upwards of $45.
Our matinée prices are:
$35 per show or $30 Concession/Friend of
Mosman Art Gallery or
3 shows for $80
Tickets available at door
or book online at www.trybooking.com/124541
Please note: DOOR SALES: CASH ONLY
No Credit Card facilities
In the pantheon of Australian opera singers,
Geoffrey Chard ranks with the greatest, and it’s a
major coup for Cabaret in the Day to welcome him
back to Mosman - years ago, Mosman was this
Hurstville lad’s first ‘overseas’ gig! - to celebrate the
much loved Peter Dawson and his classical ballads.
Winter weekends of cabaret matinées in 2015
World class entertainment 3pm
Five minutes from home
Easy parking
Home by 5pm!
Our most successful show in the 2014 season
featured the glorious voice of The Australian
Opera’s soprano, Christine Douglas, starring as Our
Glad in a tribute to Gladys Moncrieff. Following
MOSMAN ART GALLERY
Cnr Art Gallery Way & Myahgah Rd, Mosman
(02) 9978 4178
CABARET
in the Day
2015
Musical shows to warm
those winter afternoons
Flanders & Swann
Peter Dawson
Gladys Moncrieff
3 performances only!
3pm, Sunday 31 May
3pm, Sunday 28 June
3pm, Sunday 5 July
ANDREW O’KEEFE & GLENN AMER
in the
MICHAEL FLANDERS & DONALD SWANN
Entertainment
Australia’s legendary operatic baritone
GEOFFREY CHARD &
The man with the fingers of Liberace & the
voice of Mario Lanza
GLENN AMER
in
The Triumphant Return of
GLORIOUS MUD!
MEMORIES OF PETER DAWSON
by David Mitchell & Melvyn Morrow
In the 1950’s and 60’s, the most sophisticated
musical duo in England were MICHAEL FLANDERS
and DONALD SWANN in their internationally
acclaimed revues, At the Drop of a Hat which ran for
over two years on London’s West End and At the
Drop of Another Hat which played for almost as long.
In 1964, Flanders and Swann came to Australia and
enjoyed a sell-out season at Sydney’s Theatre Royal.
And who better to bring their classic comic songs
back to performance life than Mosman’s own double
Logie winning TV compere of Deal or No Deal and
Weekend Sunrise, ANDREW O’KEEFE together with
Mr Showmanship himself, GLENN AMER.
Mud, mud, glorious mud!
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!
So follow me, follow
Down to the hollow
And there let us wallow in GLORIOUS MUD!
For sixty years in the first half of the 20th century,
Peter Dawson was Australia’s Ambassador of Song
and the most famous recording artist in the world.
Throughout his monumental 60 year career, Peter
Dawson sold some 25 million 78’s celebrating family
values with sincerity and the British Empire with
jingoistic gusto.
His ballads celebrating the golden age of song were
known in every home that had a gramophone and
included The Gendarme’s Duet, Floral Dance, On the
Road to Mandalay, Roses of Picardy, Let the Rest
of the World Go By, The Holy City, The Changing of
the Guard, Land of Hope and Glory as well as songs
of the sea, the army, travel, opera and Gilbert and
Sullivan baritone favourites.
GEOFFREY CHARD AM has enjoyed an acclaimed
career worldwide on the operatic stage, starring in the
Australian Elizabethan Trust Opera Company, Welsh
National Opera, Glyndebourne, Covent Garden, the
Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals, English National
Opera and The Australian Opera.
GLENN AMER is known internationally for his thrilling
piano wizardry and his powerful operatic voice.
OUR GLAD
Operetta memories of Gladys Moncrieff starring
The Australian Opera’s
CHRISTINE DOUGLAS
and the inimitable
GLENN AMER
What Joan Sutherland was to grand opera, Gladys
Moncrieff, ‘Our Glad”, was to the golden age of
operetta and musical comedy. Only a Rose, Vilia,
The Merry Widow Waltz, We’ll Gather Lilacs, L’amour
Toujours L’amour, Tea for Two, Love Live Forever ...
these are just some of the evergreen classics sung by
the Australian Opera’s Christine Douglas accompanied
by pianist extraordinaire and comic genius, Glenn Amer.
A musical pavlova of delicious melodies and nostalgia!