THE RHUMBELOW THEATRE
WE ARE NOW FULLY
AIR-CONDITIONED
PRESENTS
"BAMBI IN KABARET"
VISITS DURBAN
With Pieter-Dirk Uys
as 'Madame Bambi Kellermann'
and Godfrey
Johnson at the piano
SUNDAY 03 JUNE 2007 Show starts 6.30 pm
SUNDAY 10 JUNE 2007 Show starts 6.30 pm
(Venue opens 90 minutes before show for picnic dinner)
While
the controversial candidate for the Presidency in 2009, Mrs Evita
Bezuidenhout, is presenting her manifesto in EVITA
FOR PRESIDENT from 29th May to 10th June at the Sneddon
Theatre, her blonde sussie, Bambi Kellermann
will be presenting two Sunday shows of her Cabaret with Godfrey Johnson at the
piano on 3rd and 10th June.
"BAMBI
IN KABARET" performed at Cape Town's Intimate Theatre during 2006 and
critics have hailed it a milestone in Cape Town theatre and 'not to be missed!'
It will be presented at this year's Grahamstown Festival of the Arts.
Bambi Kellermann (born Baby Poggenpoel)
is the younger sister of Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, the 'most famous white woman in South
Africa'. Chalk and cheese. Whereas Evita
has become a household name and favourite across political-party lines, Bambi
smoulders in the background - not yet as famous as her sister, but far more
dangerous. She left Bethlehem in South Africa's Orange Free State in 1956 and
went to Europe where she eventually married Joachim von Kellermann,
a notorious nazi survivor of the Second World War. In
order to hide him from arrest, she took whatever job she could, in many cases
verging on the pornographic. Eventually they reached Paraguay where von Kellermann found old SS friends. He became Minister of War.
He has
since died.
Bambi
is back in the democratic South Africa. She runs a wine-tasting cellar in Paarl, sometimes referred to as nothing more than an excuse
for a high-class brothel. It is known that she is HIV-positive. But with money
and knowledge, she can live with her virus, as she did with her terrible
secrets. She sings - well, she has been inspired to sing by many who also could
not sing, but became famous for their singing: Marlene Dietrich, Hildgarde Knef and Zarah Leander to name the German ones. She loves the music
of Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim. And being an
Afrikaner meisie at heart, finds any excuse to sing
her favourite Boere Liedjies
out of the FAK Sangbundel. But with a sinister twist.
This
is what the Kabaret is about: her extraordinary story
of survival told in song, her background echoed in familiar tunes, her
inspirations gently mocked through canny impersonation. With Pieter-Dirk Uys as Bambi and with music arranged and played by Godfrey
Johnson, the cabaret is performed in three languages. Bambi's story is told in
English, while the songs also include some in German and some in Afrikaans.
This cabaret is not for the faint-hearted. It unites the acrid stench of the
old Weimar Republic of the 1930s and the sexy rot of Hamburg's Reperbahn with the familiar aromas associated with 'ons eie' Voortrekker-camps
and braaivleis-orgies.
Join us at the
Rhumbelow.
RHUMBELOW BOOKINGS
R 100-00 (BANKING & BOOKING ESSENTIAL)
Bring food picnic baskets.
(Braais will be available
should you wish to cook some meat)
Bar Available (Please note Alcohol may not be
brought on to the premises)
Phone or
email Roland for bookings and get that money rolling in.
H 2057602 Cell
0824998636 email
roland@stansell.za.net
VISIT : www.rhumbelow.za.net
“EVITA FOR
PRESIDENT”
29th May to 10th June at the Sneddon
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