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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2020 season. This season is now over.

An Evening of Tom Waits Songs

Music
Australia

Stewart D'Arrietta & band return with a revival of the five-star Tom Waits show 'Belly Of A Drunken Piano'.

We romp through 30 of the best Tom Waits hits: 'Red Shoes', 'Going Out West', 'Martha', 'Ol 55', 'Hold On', 'Big In Japan', 'God's Away' and many more. Fringe favourite Stewart D'Arrietta on piano and vocals, is joined by SA Music Hall Of Fame inductee Rob Pippan and his band. This lively, passionate & demented rock journey is for anyone who loves music, storytelling & all round great entertainment.

You don't have to be a Tom Waits fan... but you probably will be after this!

"One of the ten best shows of the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe" The Sunday Times.

★★★★★ "Astonishing" The Advertiser

★★★★★  Variety

★★★★★  The New Yorker

★★★★★  The New York Times

Please note: There will be some seating available on the night. First in, best dressed! 

Presented by: Stewart D'Arrietta and Rob Pippan

As a guitarist/ musical director, Rob Pippan has worked with over 100 artists & received 4 ARIA nominations.
His company, Rob Pippan Productions, is one of SA’s best producers of local & international acts such as Orianthi, Glenn Shorrock, Ross Wilson, Kate Ceberano & others. Rob himself has been inducted into the prestigious SA Music Hall Of Fame.
Stewart D’Arrietta is the piano guy in 'Lennon Through A Glass Onion’, one of Australia's best loved & longest running shows, which he co-created & continues to perform with actor John Waters since 1992.
Another of Stewart’s shows, ‘My Leonard Cohen’, is an ongoing hit at the Adelaide & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.
Having become mates through the Fringe, Rob Pippan & Stewart D’Arrietta have joined dynamic forces to present this show.

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