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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 2009
Shoo Shoo Baby - The Entire History of Cabaret
Directed by Steve Marmion
Original music by Shoo Shoo Baby & Michael Roulston
Other musical references: Duke Ellington, Kander & Ebb, Friedrich Hollaender, Mischa Spoliansky.
Assembly Rooms, George Street on 6th-16th August @ 16.50hrs
Tickets: £9.50/ £12.50 Assembly box office: 0131 623 3030 www.assemblyfestival.com www.edfringe.com
Shoo Shoo Baby presents The Entire History of Cabaret: a wild ride from cabaret’s emergence during the Parisian Belle Époque to its somewhat less lofty present-day incarnation as ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, via the Weimar revue, the Cotton Club and the political rantings of the Beat Poets.
Shoo Shoo Baby, accompanied by their pianist and Musical Director, Michael Roulston, will re-enact a choice selection of cabaret curios such as pioneer Alphonse Allais’ Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man (consisting of nine bars of silence) alongside original creations inspired by cabaret’s opulent and taboo-breaking past. Allais’ gory vignette Dr Snowdrop will be re-imagined as a dark chamber piece with original music inspired by Erik Satie. Paying homage to cabaret’s modernist traditions of intimacy and the abandonment of the illusory ‘fourth wall’, the Shoo Shoos allow the audience the chance to ‘perform at the fringe’ in a modern interpretation of Duke Ellington’s haunting Creole Love Call. Each performance of the song will be recorded and uploaded onto the web after the show. The audience will also reap the dubious benefits of a comical masterclass in authentic 1930s German cabaret singing.
In true Beat poetry style, the Shoo Shoos question the very place and meaning of cabaret in the 21st century. Regarded by some cultural commentators as ‘high art’ and by the Arts Council as ‘entertainment’, they will strive to prove that cabaret can triumphantly fuse both High Art and Entertainment by unveiling their macabre four-minute opera parody Britten’s Got Talent (II).
Steve Marmion was associate director with RSC from 2006-07. In 2008 he had 3 critically acclaimed successes with Vincent River in New York, Only The Brave in Edinburgh (nominated for Best New Musical) and Metropolis in Bath. He also transferred Rupert Goold’s Macbeth onto Broadway. This is the first time he has worked with Shoo Shoo Baby. http://www.stevemarmion.com
Promoter: Dave Mauchline - 020 7240 6997 dave@davemauchline.com
Publicist: Samuel Joseph - 07929 462259 sjoseph.ent@gmail.co
