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See more Adelaide Cabaret Festival reviews and previews here. The final performance of Pound It! is tonight at the Dunstan Playhouse. Pound It! is sure to be one of the highlights of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

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Perhaps best known to Australian audiences for her appearances on Inside Amy Schumer and Maria Bamford’s fantastic Netflix series Lady Dynamite, Bridget Everett is a force of nature in her own right. It certainly won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but if you’re willing to have your boundaries pushed (Bridget doesn’t have any) and want to spend a night crying with laughter, then there’s no better entertainment. Review: Bridget Everett Pound It Cabaret Festival. Hearing the stories behind them gives them so much more life and makes them infinitely funnier than they were in isolation.įeaturing tons of audience participation (think older men being “motorboated”, Everett sitting on someone’s face or slinging a young woman over her shoulder to play her like a guitar), on-stage costume changes and intentional wardrobe malfunctions, this is not cabaret for the faint of heart. When Everett’s individual songs were featured on Inside Amy Schumer they were stripped of their original context, which did her and the songs a great disservice.

EST on HBO.Funding cut threatens SA Aboriginal health training provider Search All categories Somebody Somewhere airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m. “We’re finding something that suits us in our 40s.” “We’re all sort of the same age, and we’re actually kind of having a parallel experience to Sam,” Everett said. Murray Hill was cast as choir host Fred Rococo, and Mary Catherine Garrison as Sam’s surviving sister Tricia, through casting sessions.

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The 2017 movie Patti Cake$ cast Everett as a singer and the estranged mother of an aspiring rapper.Įverett and the creators used Somebody Somewhere to give other performers the sort of chance Everett received. She released another in 2015, and more singles in 20. “He was like, ‘You should really do a show.'”Įverett’s first album, Pound It, was released in 2013.

“Jason Eagan from this theater in Ars Nova came and saw me sing in a karaoke bar,” Everett said. Everett said her real-life cabaret opportunities came when she was singing karaoke for fun. Sam works at a standardized testing office in Manhattan, where she reconnects with Joel.

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She only quit her day job around 2014 to 2015, after having opened for Amy Schumer and appearing on Schumer’s TV shows and movies. “It’s just sort of a reminder you have to keep dreaming and dreaming outside of where you are.”Įverett continued to wait tables as she performed standup and cabaret music. “I never dreamt I would end up here,” Everett said. She said she thought her singing days would be over after graduation. “When I was little, I would be walking around the playground, and we would sing, ‘Hot Child in the City,'” Everett said.Īfter high school, Everett studied opera and vocal performance at Arizona State University. Like Sam, she performed in her high school’s show choir, and also in high school musicals.

“I happen to respond to stories of discovery and finding yourself.”Įverett grew up in Manhattan, Kan. Best known to Australian audiences via her many appearances on Amy Schumer vehicles, Bridget Everett was called the queen of wine-soaked cabaret by The New York Times. “I’m not a trained actor, so for me it’s easiest to tap into my resources that already exist,” Everett said. Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos created Somebody Somewhere, which was inspired by Everett’s life. Choir practice is not actually for a formal choir, but rather a weekly late night party, frequented by LGBTQ performers, though everyone is welcome. Six months after her sister dies, Sam is struggling to move on.Īn old high school show choir classmate, Joel (Jeff Hiller), invites Sam to his choir practice. Sam moved back to Manhattan, Kan., to care for her ailing sister. “This is giving me the best opportunity I can to tell my story.” “This show has given me an opportunity to access some strengths and some vulnerabilities,” Everett said in a Television Critics Association Zoom panel.

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