BROAD - BRISBANE COMEDY FESTIVAL
Oh Brisbane, it’s been most than a decade since I was last in Brisbane Comedy Festival - why not get into ‘BROAD’ at Brisbane Comedy Festival 2024! 4 shows only, 6:45pm (5:45pm Sunday)
NEW SHOW - Geraldine Quinn - The Passion of Saint Nicholas - MICF 2024
Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.
BROAD - Adelaide Fringe Festival
First time with a solo show in Rads for almost a decade - get into ‘BROAD’ at Adelaide Fringe Festival! 9 shows only.
A Swingin Bella Christmas - SOLD OUT
Your MCs Casey Bennetto and Geraldine Quinn will be joined by special guests as they navigate the musical joys and sorrows of the season in a special three-night engagement (on December 20th, 21st and 22nd) in the salubrious surrounds of the delightful Brunswick Ballroom. It's-a nice-a place.
12th Annual Mama Alto Holiday Special - SOLD OUT
Celebrated jazz singer and cabaret artiste Mama Alto and her special guests, are delighted to present the Twelfth Annual Holiday Special.
A beloved tradition, this Yuletide soiree of vintage holiday songs fosters togetherness at a time when many feel isolated – a silly season balm for the soul.
Carousel
Carousel is back with an all star cast! Get your tickets and ride the Carousel with Geraldine Quinn, Milo, Adam Malone, Maven & Gemma!
BROAD - ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL
Geraldine Quinn - BROAD
Nominee 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show
Nominee Golden Gibbo 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Aunty Gerry's back. Again. And she'll keep coming back again and again and again...
Multi-award-winning rock cabaret artist Geraldine Quinn (winner of the 2011 Golden Gibbo Award, as seen on Spicks and Specks, Upper Middle Bogan, The Weekly) returned to Melbourne International Comedy Festival with her first show in four long years – BROAD. She must have learned something in the break, because she finished up the 2022 Festival with two major award-nominations, sold out shows, extra shows and multiple 5-star reviews. It's just unfortunate the noms were announced after she'd finished the run – so she's back. To milk that proverbial cow.
Whether you want to unlock the Auntie Mame inside you, polish your brassiness or if (like Geraldine) your knees just aren't working anymore and you need to be near someone who understands, all are welcome in the BROAD church.
BROAD - Wollongong
Multi-award-winning rock cabaret artist Geraldine Quinn (winner of the 2011 Golden Gibbo Award, as seen on Spicks and Specks, Upper Middle Bogan, The Weekly) returned to 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival with her first show in four long years – BROAD. She must have learned something in the break, because she finished up the 2022 Festival with two major award-nominations, sold out shows, extra shows and multiple 5-star reviews. Then the show was nominated for FIVE Victorian Green Room Awards - one in every eligible cabaret category.
Now BROAD is making its NSW debut - at the ‘Gong no less! Whether you want to unlock the Auntie Mame inside you, polish your brassiness or if (like Geraldine) your knees just aren't working anymore and you need to be near someone who understands, all are welcome in the BROAD church.
BROAD - RETURN MICF SEASON
Geraldine Quinn - BROAD
Nominee 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show
Nominee Golden Gibbo 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Aunty Gerry's back. Again. And she'll keep coming back again and again and again...
Multi-award-winning rock cabaret artist Geraldine Quinn (winner of the 2011 Golden Gibbo Award, as seen on Spicks and Specks, Upper Middle Bogan, The Weekly) returned to Melbourne International Comedy Festival with her first show in four long years – BROAD. She must have learned something in the break, because she finished up the 2022 Festival with two major award-nominations, sold out shows, extra shows and multiple 5-star reviews. It's just unfortunate the noms were announced after she'd finished the run – so she's back. To milk that proverbial cow.
Whether you want to unlock the Auntie Mame inside you, polish your brassiness or if (like Geraldine) your knees just aren't working anymore and you need to be near someone who understands, all are welcome in the BROAD church.
Fish Creek Carnival
Fish Creek Carnival returns with an all new show as part of the Prom Coast Festival, and Quinn makes her Fishy debut! I can’t wait to get in front of an audience again with circus peeps, and work with some of the great folks I met thru Circus Oz as well. Been too long.
Bowie Ball - Midsumma Festival
Grab your lycra jumpsuit and get ready for an anything-goes extravaganza bringing together the best in music, art, fashion and entertainment. All your favourite Bowie hits performed live by some of Melbourne's most exciting singers and provocateurs. Let your inner lightning bolt fly!
A Swingin Bella Christmas 2022
A SWINGIN’ BELLA CHRISTMAS - 2022 - BRUNSWICK BALLROOM
20/21 DEC SOLD OUT- EXTRA SHOW 22 DEC ON SALE NOW
A Swingin’ Bella Christmas is back for 2022! Brunswick Ballroom, 6:30PM door, 8PM show.
Josh Earl’s 100% Hits Vol Pod LIVE
The first ever live show of 100% Hits Vol. Pod. The podcast that looks at the greatest music compilation series Australia ever produced. This show will look at the songs from the first half of Volume 17 released in 1995. There will be comedic guests, live musical performances and all for a good cause with all proceeds going to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
Guests include Jordan Barr, Gillian Cosgriff, Geraldine Quinn, Oliver Clark, Hot Department and PROBABLY MORE. Also Jearl will be there.
Unsung - An Antipodes Concert Fundraiser and 2023 Season Launch
Antipodes Theatre Company presents "Unsung", a concert fundraiser featuring a dozen of Melbourne's best singers and comedians performing songs from musical theatre roles they wouldn't traditionally be cast in. The evening will feature a silent auction and raffle, along with the reveal of Antipodes' 2023 Season.
Rhys & Joel's Family Christmas
Rhys & Joel's Family Christmas
THURSDAY 1 Dec - THORNBURY THEATRE
Special guests: Kirsty Webeck, Jude Perl and Geraldine Quinn
It’s beginning to look a LOT like Christmas. A time to cherish loved ones? Ew, no thanks.
Join your favourite drunk aunties Joel Creasey (Australia’s #1 drive radio show “Kate, Tim and Joel”, Eurovision, Netflix) and Rhys Nicholson (RuPaul’s Drag Race Downunder, Conan, Netflix) as they host a yuletide gay extravaganza featuring some of their favourite comedians, musicians and who knows, maybe some members of the clergy?
What better way to get in the Christmas spirit than spending some time with a couple of HO HO HOs?
MELT Comedy Gala - BRISBANE
Join us on closing weekend for a MELT laugh-fest, the ultimate variety night full of top-shelf comedy and fun!
Sunglasses at Night - PORTLAND (VIC)
The 1980s wasn’t all parties, rah-rah skirts, and side-ponytails. It was the Cold War. Chernobyl. The Berlin Wall. And the best ‘poncing’ about in pop music history.
Enter a world of artsy, decadent 80’s pop music excess as your host Geraldine Quinn gives you a crash course in apocalyptic 80s – inviting you to sing along to gloriously pretentious hits of the era.
BROAD - Cockburn Live (WA)
‘BROAD’ - COCKBURN LIVE (WA)
Geraldine Quinn returns to Perth for the first time in almost a decade with the multi-award-nominated ‘BROAD’, for two nights only!
★★★★★ “The sort of electric thunderclap that inspires audience members to hoot out loud" Time Out Melbourne
★★★★★ “Both impressive and jaw-dropping.” Theatre People
★★★★ “Supercharged by the fire within, she reminds the audience of all she has to offer.” Chortle (UK)
★★★★ Mervyn Stutter’s Pick Of The Fringe (UK - Edinburgh Fringe 2022).
Local Laughs - Hallowe'en Edition
HALLOWE’EN LOCAL LAUGHS - THE LOCAL TAPHOUSE, ST KILDA EAST
Come to one of Melbourne's longest running comedy rooms in the front room of The Local Taphouse.
Bowie Ball (Guest Appearance)
The Bowie Ball (Oz) Is back! One night only, and I will once again be a guest performer! Come and sing along, The Night Cat, Fitzroy - 13 May 2022
BROAD - Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2022
Agnes Moorehead. Rhonda Burchmore. Vivienne Westwood with a tit out. There is something heady about these kinds of brassy broads. So many (b)older women, so many (A)FAB icons to look up to. So what if these camp inspo glamour heroines feel a bit close to your own sagging jawline? Well, you write your own ridiculous story and paint your own ridiculous face in a cabaret about how anyone can find their inner Endora – bejewelled kaftan and all.
The Rubber Chicken Cabaret Club
Look at this line-up! We’re vaxxed and ready. Come visit!
MC Dave O’Neil
Geraldine Quinn
Elliot Goblet
Randy Feltface
BROAD - new show! new show! new show!
Agnes Moorehead. Rhonda Burchmore. Vivienne Westwood with a tit out. 5-star rock cabaret veteran Geraldine Quinn (Spicks & Specks) grew up idolising bold, brassy (mostly ginger) older women. Now she's becoming one. With pianist Cameron Thomas, Quinn's back to help us all find our DGAF Dame. Whether you want to unlock your inner Auntie Mame or if (like GQ) your knees aren't working anymore, ALL are welcome in The Broad Church.
“Magnificent on-stage charisma [...] With ballsy attitude like she displays so convincingly here, she could always be a rock goddess instead.” Chortle (UK) ****
A Swingin' Bella Christmas - 2021
FINAL SHOW ON SALE! SUNDAY 19 DECEMBER - 2pm MATINEE!
The other two shows sold out SO FAST, that for the first time ever, A Swingin’ Bella Christmas is doing a matinee!
COMEDY REPUBLIC - A Christmas Pageant
Our first pageant was the most talked about festive affair in town. Now - Comedy Republic's Second Annual Christmas Pageant returns for six holy nights from 16 December. Prepare to be titillated by a delectable and ever-changing cast of comedians, carollers, cabaret performers and more, all served up by the inimitable sultry songstress Tina Del Twist. Enjoy special treats from different lineups each night.
Join in the merry cheer for this unmissable Christmas extravaganza, we know Yule love it.
And I will be shaking my jingle bells on the following dates:
Thursday 16 December
Friday 17 December
Saturday 18 December
Wednesday 22 December
Thursday 23 December
All Out Of Pride - An Evening of Songs You're Ashamed to Love - RESPRITZED!
One show only! A revamp of the award-winning, 5 star, sold out show of shame songs, with Spandex Ballet alumni and repeat Dolly Diamond enabler Cameron Thomas. A spritz of new songs, new gags and a new attitude.
GLOBAL PANDEMIC
Because of the current COVID-19 pandemic, all live performance has evaporated, and we don’t know how long that will last. It’s terrifying, particularly for artists with no fall back, who rely on live performance or writing for performance. Basically we’re all sh*tting ourselves that we’ll never work again, a whole industry and all the connected business and jobs gone in a puff of smoke.
Well…I don’t have a positive spin to put on this, it’s grim. So please - if you can pay someone for a single or a CD or a bit of merch, or to write something for you, or even just stream their songs for free on Spotify so that artist can get a few cents in royalties - and when we kick this virus in the arse, come out and see us perform. Scientists are working fast.
Pandemics happen. They just don’t happen very often. We can’t do anything about it but hope, wash our hands, stay at home, isolate, and buy supplies sensibly so no one gets left behind, then massively reform our political and economic system so this loo paper bollocks doesn’t happen again.
Good luck to you all! Remember we’re all in the same boat, so be kind.
xxx
GMQ
Cabaret For a Cause - Raising Money for Bush Fire Relief
A stellar line-up of cabaret artists gather under Mama Alto’s wing to raise money to relieve the devastation of the recent bushfires. One night only.
Local Laughs - Monday 24 February
I’m going to be at Local Laughs on FEB 24 - 8.30pm, and let me just say, I may need to talk about ‘Eurovision - Australia Decides 2020’… Tickets here. Or of course at the door.
* GERALDINE QUINN - musical comedy powerhouse
* SAMI SHAH - 'Stylish, cynical, brutally newsy, bitingly funny.' The Sunday Telegraph
* TWO LITTLE DICKHEADS - 'Lo-fi arthouse comedy at it's most exuberant.' Chortle (UK)
*AMY CUNNINGHAM - a rare visit by this Canadian comedy gem
A Swingin' Bella Christmas 2019
Christmas. It's pretty good, isn't it? Wide-eyed children, galloping reindeer, sparkling tinsel, barbecues, goodwill to everyone. Thumbs up! On board!
So every year, we get together and sing the praises of the season in a venerable Melbourne hall - and that's where we've always gotten it wrong.
Go back and look at the original story. Four walls and a roof? Christmas doesn't have a plaster ceiling on it. It takes place outside, in a humble stable. Simple. Modest. A lean-to, perhaps. Some kind of tent. A beautiful century-old Belgian canvas pavilion with wooden floors and stained glass and mirrors and a licensed bar. Y'know. Slumming it.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Melba Spiegeltent, the legendary palace of festivity and frivolity adjoining Circus Oz /Melbourne Polytechnic / Collingwood TAFE / Collingwood Tech (depending on your era)! And welcome to A Swingin' Bella Christmas - a finger-snappin', toe-tappin' romp through traditional carols, modern favourites and specially-written original songs of the season, executed with airy panache by a horn-laden bevy of brilliant performers known throughout the civilised world as The Bella All-Stars!
Out front, MCs Casey Bennetto and Geraldine Quinn will be joined by special guests - past years have seen guestage (and co-hostage) from the likes of Virginia Gay, Tripod, Sarah Carroll, Eddie Perfect, Tim Rogers, Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, Mike McLeish, Angie Hart, Ali McGregor, Alan Brough, Mikelangelo, Paul Kelly, Rebecca Barnard and many more.
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW, and have yourself A Swingin' Bella Christmas!
Hepburn Palais - A Swingin' Bella Christmas 2019
Christmas. It's pretty good, isn't it? Wide-eyed children, galloping reindeer, sparkling tinsel, barbecues, goodwill to everyone. Thumbs up! On board!
So every year, we get together and sing the praises of the season in a venerable Melbourne hall - and that's where we've always gotten it wrong.
Go back and look at the original story. Four walls and a roof? Christmas doesn't have a plaster ceiling on it. It takes place outside, in a humble stable. Simple. Modest. A lean-to, perhaps. Some kind of tent. A beautiful century-old Belgian canvas pavilion with wooden floors and stained glass and mirrors and a licensed bar. Y'know. Slumming it.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Melba Spiegeltent, the legendary palace of festivity and frivolity adjoining Circus Oz /Melbourne Polytechnic / Collingwood TAFE / Collingwood Tech (depending on your era)! And welcome to A Swingin' Bella Christmas - a finger-snappin', toe-tappin' romp through traditional carols, modern favourites and specially-written original songs of the season, executed with airy panache by a horn-laden bevy of brilliant performers known throughout the civilised world as The Bella All-Stars!
Out front, MCs Casey Bennetto and Geraldine Quinn will be joined by special guests - past years have seen guestage (and co-hostage) from the likes of Virginia Gay, Tripod, Sarah Carroll, Eddie Perfect, Tim Rogers, Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, Mike McLeish, Angie Hart, Ali McGregor, Alan Brough, Mikelangelo, Paul Kelly, Rebecca Barnard and many more.
BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW, and have yourself A Swingin' Bella Christmas!