The secret refuge for wayward beauties. A widow takes you by the heart. The serious dramaturge goes tits up. A nerd girl bares her soul to an unseen lover. These lasses serve up their unusual blend of cabaret and comedy seduction with fumbling coquettish charm, ballsy joi-de-vivre and wit.

Sveta, a Russian sex goddess (well, she'd like to think so!), believes in searching for her one true love. Nothing will stop her in her quest for love. Hear her story, the 'Sickle of Life', at the Promethean 116 Grote Street. 28th Feb : 7th Mar: 13th Mar. Nuz-du-rov-ya!

Following a sellout season last Fringe, the Angry Penguins explore drugs through song and story. Rediscover the health benefits of a coffee, a cigarette, a reefer, a martini and a good lie down. Take a trip through the psychedelic 60s to country classics and haunting songs of loss and redemption.

Tap dancing, acrobatics, adagio, slapstick comedy, showgirls, singing duets, 24-girls-long choruslines, Ziegfeld Follies-esque spectaculars... and all performed by one woman in one-hour. Based on the memories of women who danced as Tivoli Lovelies, this solo performance reimagines one of the most fondly remembered theatres in Australian History....

A Tribute To Johnny Cash Including Walk The Line / Jackson / Folsom Prison Blues / Orange Blossom Special / San Quentin & more! Many of the great hits with some of June Carters' songs as well!

Let Ali McGregor (La Clique/Opera Burlesque), take you into a world of vaudeville skits and fancy tricks. It's late, the bar is open and the scene is set for the festival's finest comedians, burlesque and sideshow acts to collide. "'...partial nudity, offensive tricks and gorgeous song" The Age.

World renowned Mentalist/Fringe Sensation NICHOLAS TWEEDY IS BACK!!! Performing new ILLUSIONS sure to be nothing short of spectacular! Last year reviews: The Advertiser, "As far as stage magicians go, this is the real deal." Independent Weekly, "With no fuss and little fanfare, Tweedy makes the impossible seem real". www.nicholastweedy.com

The beloved cast of the 'Berlin Cabaret' are back this year after sell out performances in the Cabaret Fringe Festival. Expect a night of debauched entertainment and more! All the old favourites are back including the incredible Bruce Hancock Trio backing this phenomenal cast. A great night out.

Sold out 2009! 'BLUE EYED SOUL' is an ode to the chanteuses of the 60s, Dusty, Cilla, Petula, Sandie and Lulu who dominated the charts with their upbeat melodies and torch songs. Come and enjoy again the music of the 60s which forged a path to the music of today!

Lock up your daughters, the Bogan Bingo tour bus is back! Last year's shows at The Rob Roy flew under the radar as over 120 people rocked up to rock out to their tragic bingo calls that were more Aussie than a Bali jail. Book now on 8223 5391.

All male ball busting boylesque brigade. A late nite romp of circus, gender confusion, comedy and good ol' showmanship for the not so faint hearted! Witness super human aerial feats, gob-smacking funny stuff, twisted cabaret and boys in BRIEFS. Roll up for a night of the unexpected!

Reminiscent of 1920s, 30s, 40s and50s, three sassy burlesque beauties present their unique blend of classic burlesque, comedy, music and vintage sass! An original musical extravaganza incorporating tools of tease. Travel back to when women had curves and costumes were glamorous. You may learn some new moves for the boudoir.

Be captivated by a scintillating selection of virtuoso verbiage and indulge in a bit of what you fancy with Bygone Error and their Friends! Let us entertain and amaze you with turn-of-the-century British Music Hall songs, recitations, novelties, verse, and other detritus that floats out of our well-stocked memory banks.

A hot mix of Motown magic as only the Three Chillies can deliver. This trio is funny, entertaining and sexy - one spicy combo. Join the Chillie experience as the girls serve up Chillie Nights! Your appetite for the ultimate club cabaret experience is about to be satisfied. Bon Appetite!

Cirque de Gymnastique - Gymnastics re-BJORN. Ring Ring! ABBA's in Town, with a circus of gymnasts. Cirque de Gymnastique returns to take Adelaide audiences on a magical ABBA journey. Join the non-stop dance party of acrobats & gymnasts as they tumble, dance & fly to the music inspired by ABBA.

'Clean As A Whistle' is a kooky cabaret that introduces a cleaner called Ronnie. Ronnie has her head in the clouds and her feet in a pair of sensible, closed-toe shoes...Share Ronnie's passion for music, people and "a strong pair of rubber gloves".

Lysa and Leesa are two No Frills, Home Brand devotees of Lisa McCune, trapped, scanning their options while navigating life's turnstile. With baskets tightly packed, facing a world of twelve items or less, they dare to carry more. The music of Cole Porter was never meant to look like this.

Otto & Astrid are an utterly dysfunctional, brother/sister indie rock band from Berlin - Playing songs from their soon to be released album, 'Kunst Rock'. WINNER Best Production, 2008 Montreal Fringe. "If there's a fan club, I'm joining." The Scotsman, Edinburgh ***** "Pants-wettingly funny!" Uptown Magazine, Canada.

Dire-Tribe is a comedy/music trip through an Adopted- Catholic-Dysfunctional-extroverted, over-labeled Aborigine's experience of growing up in the era of disaster movies, safari suits, cinemas in the CBD and, of course, Don Dunstan!

3 of Australia's most daring comic performers invite you to bathe in their bowl of absurdist comedy. With hot harmonies, saucy satire, corn-fed propaganda, Dooda bends cabaret over the table and into the custard tart. Melbourne Fringe & Helpmann Award winners. "A comic treat" Inpress. Come on. Do the Dooda!

All pop and delicious corn and blockbuster funny, Drags Aloud is back with another gloriously twisted gender bender satire on the movies. You loved them in Grease and now these 20th Century foxes with a difference are ready to make your day. Dave and Marg would give it a five.

Fancy singing along with the na-na-na-na bit in Hey Jude? Does 'All My Loving' bring back uncomfortable memories of Johnny Young and The Young Talent Team? This is the show for you! Expect high brow harmony and low brow comedy from this multi award winning cabaret trio.

G o - G o busts out onto stage with comedy, song, dance and drama. A bit of everything that has at its core the afro-aussie beat. G o - G o is funny, honest, raw and with two shows only, unmissable!

Enjoy an afternoon of entertainment as you take a musical journey through the Generations of Jazz. Featuring a number of talented vocalists, together with the Concert Band, which comprises approximately 35 musicians, and highly experienced conductor, Sergiy Grynchuk. Also door prize, raffles and more. Supported by the Adelaide City Council.

Helga Handfull, born in a Southern German town she refuses to name, in a year she'd like to forget. Moving to Berlin shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Helga found a niche in Berlin's Kabarett culture. Join Helga as she recalls her life, her loves, and her heartbreaks.

Featuring songs by Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers and more, Loretta (played by Amber Joy Poulton) performs some of her biggest hits and those of her girlfriends from hill-billy to city-slick. Honky Tonk Angels is country music heaven!

*Winners of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival Award 2009* Two explorers begin a dangerous journey to discover the lost city of Atlantis. Armed with nothing but a guitar and mandolin. A musical comedy of epic proportions.

Kaos Kabaret - The hottest show in town! Bringing back the good times. All new feel-good comedy routines mixed with over 40 back-to-back hits from the 40s to the 80s. Come have a good laugh, enjoy over 2 hours of non-stop nostalgia and pop music fun!

In Adelaide Direct From Her Astral World Cleansing Tour...Karmin Suitrout, ex-aerobics instructor turned mystic yogi and healer, will show you how to be a multi-career person and still one with the universe! Revisit the 1980s with a musical featuring Olivia Newton-John songs reinterpreted, and see Lycra in its best light!

Kinky Kaos 3, Caos Cafe's Saturday night late show and after party. Sir Perry Petron presents old favourites and new, with special guest, Chakrapony (Perth), the human pony. 20th, 27th Febuary, 6th, 13th March. Doors open 10pm, show 10.30pm. Fringetix $30, at the door $35. Adults only.

La Petite Mort - The Orgasm is a raunchy cabaret romp through sex and sexuality. Edinburgh Fringe sellout show 2009. "A truly original, delightful, accomplished show, another of the shows that remind you why you love the Fringe so much." The Scotsman. "Best Bets of the Melbourne Fringe Festival" The Age.

The starring light of last year's hit, Company Of Strangers, returns direct from Sydney Opera House with her own spell-binding show. Hilariously funny, with the wit and self-deprecating wickedness of a woman who has always asked for a second-helping. "Gorgeous, comedic, ukulele-playing, strange song-singing Lady Carol...you'll love her" Time O...

Before Madonna, before Marlene - there was the one they called the 'Last of the Red Hot Mamas'. Sidonie Henbest pays tribute to the legendary Sophie Tucker - the Russian born American chanteuse - the Queen of vaudeville and the jazz age, whose career spanned a sensational 60 years in showbiz.

Songs of love, longing and romantic triumph from Paris, Memphis, Stockholm, Lutsk and other far flung places. Follow Lisette's stories of loves won and lost across the continents, with the Faux Manouches' swinging the joint with French Café instrumentals. "A genuine tour de force" - The Program. Listen at: www.myspace.com/lisettelfm.

A living pop music puppet inside his own Vaudeville traveling stage. Mikki Ross brings you an enchanted world interweaving original music, live piano and puppetry. A captivating performance not to be missed. "Truely I've rarely seen an audience so excited and enthralled" (fasterlouder.com.au).

A final blow-out with Miss Behave (La Clique) and guests in a sexy, skilful, spectacular variety show send-off to the Fringe. Celebrating all that's been brilliant, ridiculous and unique with a bit of what you've seen and some of what you missed. A stylishly anarchic wrap-party and riotous last hurrah!

The mercury is rising and Miss K is searching for reason. Is it The Greenhouse Effect, the Apocalypse or merely the heat radiating from her knickers? As the city hits boiling point it's impossible to stay sane. The only thing that's certain is that heads will roll.....but whose?

A modern Vaudeville type show with sinister undertones, encompassing facets of the performing arts, music, magic, stand-up comedy, escapology, comedic skits and more.

Award winning cabaret writer and performer Nikki Aitken will perform as only she knows how...with luscious songs and hilarious characterisations. Nikki Aitken Presents will feature new songs, old songs, Nix Pix of the Fringe and very special guests. Allow yourself to feel the fuzzy goodness of a night with Nikki!

In this hilarious mix of music, comedy and science demonstrations, Chris KP (and band) explore what really makes us tick. Pheromones,emotions,beauty and the odds of finding a partner. Tap your toes and laugh out loud - this is what they never taught you in school. 'Pick of the festival' Canberra Times.

Hear rock and pop classics as you've never heard them before, with the 60 harmonic voices of the Adelaide University Choral Society and a 4-piece rock band. AUCS is back with new expansive arrangements and favourites from recent years. Featuring music by Ben Folds, The Beatles, Queen and more.

Scandalous, inspired by the 1900s glamour and deceit, follows a jewel thief who, after a heist, finds himself hiding in the wrong room. "A show for the young and old with a cheeky sense of humour. ...everything that makes dance and cabaret an entertaining story form." Kosta Jaric, FB June09

Set in a candlelit garden, we invite you to accompany us down the path of love, as imagined by the greatest writer in the English language. 'Shakespeare on Love' samples a variety of love scenes from some of Shakespeare's greatest plays and poems.

Enjoy a delicious 2 course dinner, then a 2 hour International musical /comedy Floorshow with quirky impersonations. Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Phantom of the Opera, Charles and Camilla and more."Enthralling" The Advertiser. "My Favourite Cabaret Act" Sunday Mail. Dinner served 7pm to 7.45pm.Table of 6+ only $50pp not $60pp.

The 6-piece Baldies are back after a whirlwind sell-out in Fringe'09! Amid the incandescent harmonies of all those Eagles' hits that ring your memory bells comes an all-new, highly original and wry glimpse of the past and future for Baby Boomers. Book fast! Pre-show dinner reservations: (08) 8211 8000.

The luscious, legendary, velvet-trimmed, genre busting, burlesque-eats-its-young Salon that has set critics raving and 45,000 audience members around the world in raptures, returns! Where vaudeville and variety, circus and sideshow, boho and butoh, music-hall and mayhem are hijacked by astonishing performance art divas. "Gob-smacking" New Acts. ...

Hans is back with his band and The Lucky Bitches for a night of cabaret, comedy and.... seduction. Bring your husband and your wallet as Hans tries his hardest to steal both. Whether he is successful or not all depends on how nicely you play.

Valerie Masquida tells the story of a woman who travels the world in search of lost love, through a program of songs by Satie, Poulenc, Faure, Hahn, Debussy and Bizet. With touches of cabaret and opera, Valerie gives us more than a slice of exoticism and a cure for love.

The Wau Wau Sisters return with ALL-NEW SHOW of unearthly delights & debauchery! Straddling the hilarious gap between religious & related, performance art & party, busking & burlesque, profanity & divinity, this 2-gal circus contorts and careens to a bacchanalian finale. A LAST SUPPER, full of saviours, savants and showgirls!!

Part-musical showcase and intimate theatre piece, 'the Wheel...' unites four unique Australian songwriters to push the boundaries of conventional music performance. Ben Stewart, Emma Dean, Brendan Maclean and Adelaide's own Emily Davis spin the dreaded 'Wheel of Frank Confession' revealing the darkest secrets, desires, and fears portrayed in the...

The President of the Mythical Bowls Club reviews the happenings of the past 12 months... then join in the fun and excitement of our fabulous cabaret featuring a cavalcade of musical entertainment, with song, dance, comedy and old time vaudeville. BYO supper, bar facilities available.

Join Agent Snuzge as she charismatically conducts the character jammed traffic of her multi-dimensional mind. Can Marseille Motor-Inn survive the waft of Love? Will Cosmic Sass Penetrate the 5th Dimension? Find out in this Hardcore-Fluffy one woman show. "A Ringa-Dinga! Guitar, Keys and a Singa!"

Dangerously mischievous and frighteningly beautiful- this stray cabaret has a lot to say! Meet Violet Rapscallion- a rare beauty and reckless scallywag! Meet cantankerous gothic burlesque dolls! An enchanting bellydancer, maniacally depressed ukulele players, megaphones, soaring vocals, and heart wrenching cello solos... Come one! Come All! Come...

Be entranced by the vintage glamour and stunning voice of Lili la Scala singing for you 'War Notes'. A stunning combination of the most recognisable songs from wartime, with some lesser-known gems and the touching letters sent by modern day soldiers who have given their lives fighting for their country.

WINNER 2009 MELBOURNE FRINGE 'BEST CABARET' and MELBOURNE AIRPORT AWARD 'BEST NEWCOMER'. 'When the Sex is Gone' is a portrait of romance-infused eroticism, as told by a foul-mouthed split-person hermaphrodite. A stripper and a boxer, musing over broken hearts and drunken brawls, Tommy Bradson is "guaranteed to SHOCK and AMAZE".

Are you running away from something? Or toward it? "... America. Nightclub. Drink. Pill. Dance. Hand. Shoulder. Security. 'I'm fine'. 'FINE'. Outside.Tab? Tab! WOW! Walk. Gutter. Cop. RUN. Laugh. 'Your place?' Keys? Keys...Stairs. Inside. Bedroom...button...button...button..." "the voice of an angel" Amanda Palmer, Dresden Dolls

What do you get when you mix three leggy lasses, from three towns in Australia? And what do you get when you mix Cabaret, Burlesque and Comedy? You get a saucy trio that's utterly caba-risque! WRONGTOWN: Population...You!