All aboard! Courtney Act and Rizo invite you onto the Joy Revival Train, a glittering musical journey through lost pleasures, disco dreams, tragic romance, and femme power with duets, audience mischief, and unstoppable glamour. This intimate cabaret revival might just restore your faith in fun.
Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. Cocktail seating is first come first serve. Drinks available for purchase. Ages 21+.
The New York Times once referred to Rizo as “SENSATIONAL… A fierce but kindhearted fusion of comedy, burlesque, performance art, and rock ‘n’ roll.” Taking a cue from Piaf, Rizo (né Amelia Zirin-Brown) fully embraces the role of chanteuse. In recordings, she is a mysterious figure, a siren ushering you through tableaus of heartbreak, lust, and the murkiness in between. Live, she is an eyeful.
An international cult favorite, her stage shows bring her powerhouse vocals together with seductive storytelling and wild hilarious audience experiments. Rizo is a provocateur with an electric wit, and has been called a “diva par excellence” by The Guardian. In the studio she has collaborated with Moby, Reggie Watts, and Yo-Yo Ma; whose album Songs of Joy & Peace, which features Rizo, won a Grammy Award.
Rizo has also received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Time Out London theater award, and a London Cabaret Award. Rizo recently starred in the role of Madame Zinzanni in the revival of the much beloved Teatro ZinZanni and is in development for a television project with Michael Carbonaro of the popular series “The Carbonaro Effect.”
Boy, girl, artist, advocate - Courtney Act has been bending rules and gender since she first appeared on Australian Idol back in 2003. Her live shows The Girl From Oz and Under the Covers sold out at Edinburgh Fringe and toured theatres across the UK, Europe, Australia, Asia, and North America. She dazzled as Elvira in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit at the Sydney Opera House, and headlined alongside Lady Rizo in Smash! during Sydney Festival.
A finalist on the most iconic season of RuPaul's Drag Race, winner of Celebrity Big Brother UK, runner-up on Dancing With The Stars (twice), The Masked Singer, and a fixture on Australian screens as anchor of Eurovision and the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. Courtney brings a rare combination of vocal chops, comic timing, absolute glamour, and genuine star power to every room she walks into. She even has her own wax figure at Madame Tussauds Sydney.
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