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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2024 season. This season is now over.

The figure of Anne Millar dressed in a red Peignoir and gesturing in a 1930's pose. There is a faint image of the Eiffel Tower in the background and the whole image is encased in an Art Deco border
She has lost yet another love and resorted to drinking, yet at this moment she's sobered up and is chatting to the audience, asking what's wrong with her and why can't she keep a man.
The character believes she has finally found true love and that the man who gave he er her first cigarette will also teach her how to become a real woman

CANCELLED - Illusions - a French Cabaret

Cabaret • Musical theatre
Western Australia • SA Premiere

From Follie and Faux pas, denial and finally, redemption, we are transported to the vibrant Cabaret era of 1930's Paris. In this onewoman show, 'ILLUSIONS-a French Cabaret', written and performed by Chanteuse, Anne Millar with Vincent Cologiuri on piano, "Millar weaves the tale through superlative acting and her sublime mezzo soprano voice.. she knows how to inhabit a character so that you in the audience forget.. and are there with her" (Bruce Mutard - Fringe Feed)

Through the lost songs of original 20' and 30's Parisien Cabaret Divas; and icons Piaf, Dietrich and Eartha Kitt, we evoke the unique visual and musical intensity of the era., where with wicked, dark humour and raw, cruel anguish, she moves through the pain of self-delusion, out of the dark, into mastery of self, life and love.

Presented by: Anne Millar

On finishing her Vocal studies at the Sydney Con of Music, Anne was contracted as Resident Mezzo for WA Opera where she performed principal roles and toured extensively throughout the state of WA. She has recently retired as senior chorus member after 35years and is now concentrating on her Cabaret performances and teaching in her home studio. Anne has also performed as soloist in Oratorio, Concert, Art Song, Musical Theatre, Cabaret and recently presented her self-written work, "ILLUSIONS - a French Cabaret" to great reviews and winning an award and Encore Season at Fringe World ‘22. Singing authentic French and German Cabaret is a particular passion of Anne's, having presented many Cabaret over the years such as ''Voyages a Paris - from Piaf to Poulenc, Femme Fatales - a Wicked History.

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