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COMING UP
MORE ME, LESS YOU with Wes Snelling & Friends
Indulge with Melbourne’s award winning Prince of Cabaret Wes Snelling as he hosts a night where music and comedy meet. Featuring a flock of fabulous guest artistes including:
9 Oct: OFFICIAL OPENING
David Quirk (Nominated Golden Gibbo Award Comedy Festival 2008)
Beau Heartbreaker (Best Cabaret Award Winner Melbourne & Adelaide Fringe)
16 Oct:
Rebecca Barnard (Rebecca’s Empire)
Anna Pocket Rocket (Super Circus Girl)
23 Oct:
Sammy J & Heath McIvor (Nominated Best Show Comedy Festival 2008)
Matt Thomas/Jamie Slocombe (The Blow Waves)
30 Oct:
The Fabulous Adam Richard (Fox FM)
Ali McGregor (Opera Burlesque/Spicks and Specks)
6 Nov:
Yana Alana (Green Room Award Winner)
The Butterfly Glee Club Choir
Every Thursday also features Benn Bennett, Stephen Weir, Tina Del Twiste, and an afterparty with Disco Princess Pete Kung (Q&A)
Show starts 8pm sharp (Doors open 7pm)
Limited seating $20 Standing Room $15 / Food available
SEASON 1: THURSDAY EVENINGS OCT 9 – NOV 6
THE ORDER OF MELBOURNE LEVEL 2/401 SWANSTON ST, MELBOURNE
CALL TO MAKE A BOOKING ON 0396636707 www.theorder.com.au
Please email info@wessnelling.com for more information or contact.
Wes Snelling is Melbourne's own international man-diva, delighting audiences everywhere he goes with his distinctive blend of charm, wit and honey-coated voice.
Recent highlights include BLACK BAG with Benn Bennett, and starring as 'Madame Tina' in La Soiree at the Melba Spiegeltent. He was MC with the Dresden Dolls, star of the acclaimed In Record Time backed by an 8 piece band with Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2006, Girls Get All The Good Bits with MICF Festival Club and the Midsumma Festival 2006, and the award winning TRASH. As an actor, Wes just completed a tour with MWT/La Mama/RAV/Arts Vic in the 2007 award-winning production of Shrimp where
he "effortlessly (australianstage.com) performed "an excellent series of cameos" (The Age).
Wes Snelling is the essence of nouveax cabaret, combining original music, comedy, and bawd to leave you with no option but to have a ball.
Best Original Musical (TRASH, Melbourne Fringe Awards 2005)
Green Room Award Nominee (Best Original Songs) 2005
Best Performance for Young People (Shrimp, Actor, Drama Victoria, 2007)
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2008 Golden Gibbo Nominee (Black Bag, Writer, Performer)
“a wicked sense of comic timing” The Age
“our hats must go off to Melbourne's prince of cabaret” Beat Magazine
“Excellent voice...heaps of panache” Stage Left
“A beautiful singer with impeccable timing” Vibewire
“fabulousness” The Age
“super fabulous” Herald Sun
“I must apologise for my overuse of the word 'fabulous'” Inpress Magazine
“he can actually sing.” Herald Sun
“I'm just not feeling it” Wes Snelling
REVIEW OF BLACK BAG - The Age - Tim Hunter - Oct 12, 2007
4 stars
Put two cabaret singers such as Wes Snelling and Benn Bennett together in a stark white room, give them a keyboard, a black bag, a handful of dreadful songs from the 1980s,
and some bad German accents, and look out.
Because they're going create something unique, absurd and downright infectious. Repressed maiden Dominic-a (Snelling) escapes the tyrannical Teutonic clutches of Maximilian (Bennett), with the help of notorious '80s pop legends Martika and La Toya Jackson, and finds his/her voice in a free mic bar in Hobart, of all places.
Their deadpan German schtick is perfectly pitched here, and it works well with the hilarious and wonderfully performed songs. Snelling is always interesting to watch, and he has the perfect foil in Bennett. Keep your eye on these two; they're sure to remain surprising.
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