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EastEnd Cabaret is an award-winning musical comedy cabaret character duo based in London, England, formed in late 2009.〔http://www.timeout.com/london/cabaret/event/166084/bernadette-byrnes-east-end-cabaret〕 EastEnd Cabaret is Bernadette Byrne (played by Jennifer Byrne), a European chanteuse of unknown origin, and Victor Victoria (Victoria Falconer-Pritchard), a faux-bilateral "hermaphrodite" reminiscent of the sideshow "freaks" such as Josephine Joseph. Acclaimed for their risqué original songs, character comedy, raucous live shows and innovative audience participation, the double act have been called "a high-powered feminine 'Flight of the Conchords' dipped in acid and drenched in smut."〔http://blogs.crikey.com.au/curtaincall/2012/03/27/review-east-end-cabaret-red-bennies-melbourne/〕 The pair, along with their creative director and co-writer Tom Velvick, were the first cabaret act to be named one of the hClub100, awarded by The Hospital Club in 2013, a national search for the most innovative and influential people working across the creative industries. Other recent winners include Stella McCartney, Grayson Perry, Kate Moross and Benedict Cumberbatch. ==Early Appearances and Notable history== The first incarnation of EastEnd Cabaret was in November 2009 at the iconic East End pub owned by artist Pauline Forster, The George Tavern. The show was called ''Bernadette Byrne and the EastEnd Cabaret'', and took the form of a cabaret revue, featuring singers, poets and comedians.〔http://www.thisiscabaret.com/eastend-cabaret-celebrates-three-years-of-salacious-songs-gin-and-half-moustaches〕 In 2010, the two main characters of the EastEnd Cabaret show became a duo: Bernadette Byrne and Victor Victoria. Their early performances featured original and improvised songs, stories, and the recontextualisation of other material, subverting songs by Radiohead, The Magnetic Fields, The Kings of Leon, Right Said Fred and David Bowie, however since 2011, they have not included cover songs in their full-length shows. The duo, choosing to perform under the original name, appeared at performance spaces around London, including "CellarDoor" in Aldwych,〔http://www.thelondonword.com/2010/10/east-end-cabaret〕〔http://londonist.com/2010/11/eastend_cabaret_cellar_door_zero_al.php〕〔http://londoniscool.com/eastend-cabaret-live-at-the-cellar-door〕 Theatre Souk with Theatre Delicatessen〔http://londonist.com/2010/10/theatre_review_theatre_souk_2-4_pic.php〕 and The Old Vic Tunnels.〔http://www.londonist.com/2010/08/review_dark_carnival.php〕 EastEnd Cabaret created and curated "The Attic" in December 2010, a pop-up cabaret bar in an illegal squat in the heart of Soho. The building (which once housed the Limelight Club, famed in the 1980s for celebrity nightclubbers including Prince) was taken over by art squatters The Oubliette Arthouse.〔http://londonist.com/2011/01/review-the-attic-the-oubliette-arthouse.php〕 The aim of "The Attic" was to recreate the experimental, intimate and informal atmosphere of early cabaret bars in Paris and Berlin, and performers included Dusty Limits, Sarah-Louise Young and Piff The Magic Dragon.〔http://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/index.php/site/article/forget_the_art_world_in_the_oubliette_art_house/〕 After successfully establishing themselves on the international cabaret scene, the duo have since performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Brighton Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Fringe World in Perth, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, variety shows at The Lowry in Manchester, the Komedia in both Brighton and Bath, Brussels, Dublin and Melbourne, shows in Denmark including the Nørrebros Teater in Copenhagen and Nordkraft in Aalborg, and at UK festivals including Latitude, Bestival, Secret Garden Party and headlining the Cabaret Tent at T in the Park. They have also been a special guest act on the award-winning cabaret and circus show, La Soirée, during its 2012 Australian season. In 2011, in an article celebrating the London cabaret scene, the duo was named as one of ''Time Out'' magazine's Top Ten "Cabaret Superstars"〔http://www.timeout.com/london/gallery/826/londons-cabaret-superstars〕 and featured on the front cover as 'the queens of musical smut'. The magazine was published with a series of ten different front covers, featuring David Hoyle, Le Gateaux Chocolat, Jonny Woo and Dusty Limits amongst others. In 2012, Victor Victoria made a guest appearance for Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra at Koko in London, accompanying Neil Gaiman as part of a "sawchestra": an ensemble of musical saws, led by Adrian Stout of The Tiger Lillies, also featuring performance artist Le Pustra and Michael McQuilken of the Grand Theft Orchestra.〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYj314ATeFs〕 In 2013, EastEnd Cabaret were named as part of the "vanguard of female rock cabaret" alongside Amanda Palmer, Martha Wainwright, Camille O'Sullivan, Meow Meow and Christa Hughes by David Zampatti in The West Australian newspaper.〔http://fromtheturnstiles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/music.html〕 The duo have also hosted a number of well-known variety shows around London, including the Friday Night Freakshow at the udderBELLY and the London Wonderground on the South Bank, and The Black Cat Cabaret at Cafe de Paris. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EastEnd Cabaret」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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