The Cabaret Hour: Jens Radda and Iva Rosebud
- Live at The Count's | Melbourne Cabaret Festival Roadshow
- The Count’s
The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts
$15 - $35
Past Event
Melbourne Cabaret Festival Roadshow: Live at The Count's
MPAC unites with Melbourne Cabaret Festival to present Australia's best cabaret talent across five shows in The Count’s this October. The limited season includes drag, jazz, comedy and pop performances.
Feast on a smorgasbord of exquisite cabaret shows, curated by the long-running Melbourne Cabaret Festival. Each show opens with emerging cabaret talent thanks to the Ron and Margaret Dobell Foundation. Nestled in the heart of Monash University ’s Clayton campus, The Count’s transforms into a cosy cabaret room with full bar with dinner service available.
Join Melbourne’s award-winning cabaret duo Jens Radda and Iva Rosebud for an unforgettable show of soaring live vocals, laugh out loud comedy, razor-sharp wit and dazzling dance numbers.
With a setlist featuring the timeless tunes of Sinatra, Piaf, Porter and Bassey, every moment will have you sitting on the edge of your seat and singing along.
Jens Radda, famed for Skank Sinatra (winner of Best Cabaret at Adelaide Fringe), and Iva Rosebud, the iconic Tradie By Day, Drag Queen By Night, have toured the world, stamping their mark on every capital city in Australia as well as internationally in Copenhagen and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This glamorous duo are the hottest ticket in town.
Preview: YouTube
Also appearing: Charlee Watt
Hailing from regional South Australia, Charlee began attending the Adelaide Cabaret Festival aged 11, and by the age of 16 was the recipient of the Festival’s Nathaniel O’Brien Class of Cabaret scholarship where she was touted as “One to watch”. This opportunity was also the beginning of regular yearly appearances on the stage of maestro piano man Dr Trevor Jones, in the Quartet Bar, sharing the stage with an array of artists including friend and inspiration, Mama Alto.
Charlee has completed three Adelaide Fringe seasons with acclaimed tributes to Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Mama Cass Elliot and is recipient of this year’s Encore CabFringe award. In 2024, Charlee’s hire of a fab jazz band led to her new award-winning show, Beating up The Beatles.
Her second tour in Melbourne, following her debut at Mama Alto’s 2023 12th Annual Holiday Special, Charlee Watt brings The Count’s a petit degustation of some of the songs she has loved performing in her Fringe Cabaret shows so far.
Show Times
Doors @ 6.30pm
Charlee Watt @ 7.30pm
Jens Radda and Iva Rosebud @ 8.15pm
Eat & Drink
Make a meal of it! The music gets underway at 7.30pm, but arrive a bit earlier if you can. From 6.30pm, enjoy pre-show dinner and drinks at The Count’s Italian-style kitchen and bar. Reservations are not required when you purchase a ticket to a show. Order from the QR code on your table, or at the bar. View the menu.
