Babushka Cabaret
A$4,462
of $3,000 targetyrs ago
Successful on 9th Mar 2012 at 12:00AM.
"Babushka combine stunning voices, superb vocal arrangements, spot-on comic timing and a sense of the absurd to great effect. These girls are what contemporary cabaret is all about - a real post-modern mashup!" Alison St Ledger - Director of the Brisbane Cabaret Festival
1) Stage a premiere season of ‘I Can Keep A Secret’ at The Adelaide Fringe Festival 2012. This will allow us to debut at Australia’s premiere fringe festival and the opportunity to share our work with producers and promoters from around Australia.
The Show: ‘I Can Keep A Secret’
Babushka are musical directed and accompanied by the fearless, French-speaking and oh-so-buff maestro Matthew Samer. He is an accomplished musical theatre and cabaret pianist and composer and has recently completed writing his own full-scale musical, Hell & High Water.
Thank you for reading through our Pozible profile and for taking an interest in Babushka. We appreciate your support and hope that you share our enthusiasm for an exciting and creative year ahead!
Babushka's Goals
We are constantly driven to create fresh and tasty contemporary cabaret that blurs the lines between quality pop music and the finest excerpts from the world of opera.
By making a donation to Babushka, you’re helping to develop and support the work and long-term future of passionate music and theatre makers. We are committed to producing high quality original productions that contribute to the musical richness and diversity of cabaret culture. With your generous pledge, you become part of this mini-revolution and have your own backstage pass to Babushka performances and the ins and outs of how we create. Other than that, we offer our eternal thanks and public acknowledgement of your support.
Your donation will allow us to:
2) Tour ‘I Can Keep A Secret’ to Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne in 2012 to expand our public profile and establish ourselves as professional cabaret artists.
Confessional girl-talk at its best and singing what can’t be said: lies, desire, regret, tears & tantrums. Deep dark secrets are revealed as the girls of Babushka take you on an opera-cabaret journey of Gotye, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Kate Bush, Portishead, Sondheim, Kylie and more. Never before has opera been so revealing...
Your assistance
Producing and touring cabaret/music theatre can be an expensive venture. Your support is invaluable and goes directly towards basic expenses of producing any show and making it a success:
- hire of rehearsal space
- production costs - audio and lighting
- accommodation for five artists
- travel costs for five artists
- venue costs
- hiring a director
- marketing costs
About Babushka
Babushka was born in 2011 when four of Brisbane’s most vivacious and dangerously different divas bonded over a shared case of Soprano Identity Crisis Syndrome at the Queensland Conservatorium. Premiering their wares as a cabaret four-piece at Queensland’s own Woodford Folk Festival, these quirky young sopranos created the collective to indulge their love of operatic prima donnas (mostly themselves) and cabaret femme fatales. Pushing the boundaries of traditional opera through their unique crossover arrangements, mash-ups and musical sketches, the girls have won the hearts of classical music buffs and indie music nerds alike. Their repertoire explores the spectrum of theatrical music from full-blown operatic arias, cabaret tearjerkers and pop gems set to luscious 4-part harmony.
As individuals, the girls have performed with Opera Queensland, OzOpera, Alpha Crucis Ensemble (The Southern Cross Soloists II), The Sounding Out Collective, Oscar Theatre Company, The Qld Conservatorium Opera Department, ChiChi Delux, The National Youth Choir of Australia and more.
Please not that some of our rewards are location-based in Brisbane. If you are an interstate donor, we would love to chat about other alternatives.
Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
1 chosen / 299 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26
Personalised postcard sent from the Adelaide Fringe Festival + Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
2 chosen / 118 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26
1 x complimentary single ticket to any performance in 2012 + Personalised postcard sent from the Adelaide Fringe Festival + Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
1 chosen / 59 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26
1 x complimentary double pass to any performance in 2012 + Personalised postcard sent from the Adelaide Fringe Festival + Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
3 chosen / 27 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26
1 x 30 minute session to learn how to sing + Personalised sung thank you video from Babushka + 1 x complimentary double pass to any performance in 2012 + Personalised postcard sent from the Adelaide Fringe Festival + Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
0 chosen / 20 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26
2 x complimentary double pass to any performance in 2012 + 1 x 60 minute session to learn how to sing + Public credit as a producer in our 2012 programs + Personalised sung thank you video from Babushka + Personalised postcard sent from the Adelaide Fringe Festival + Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
4 chosen / 8 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26
1 x solo performance by one of the Babushka dolls at a 2012 event OR 3 x 60 minute sessions to learn how to sing + 2 x complimentary double pass to any performance in 2012 + Public credit as a producer in our 2012 programs + Personalised sung thank you video from Babushka + Personalised postcard sent from the Adelaide Fringe Festival + Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
4 chosen / 2 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26
1 x group Babushka performance at a 2012 event OR 5 x 60 minute sessions to learn how to sing + Public credit as an executive producer in our 2012 programs + 2 x complimentary double pass to any performance in 2012 + Personalised sung thank you video from Babushka + Personalised postcard sent from the Adelaide Fringe Festival + Babushka air kisses, official thank you and recognition on our website + Regular updates throughout the festival performance and post-performance periods
1 chosen / 2 available
Est. delivery is Mar 26