Throw your cares away – Mel Trickey’s quirky new cabaret will show you how!
Opening next week, Happiness 101 is a cabaret about the ploys for joy, the measures for pleasure, and practising what you preach. Warning, though: laughter is contagious…
Professor Geraldine Gravis has turned her incredible intellect to a systematic, scientific and scintillatingly thorough study of the concept of ‘happiness’. Could the surprising outcome of tonight’s presentation lead her to rethink her life’s work…?
For Mel Trickey, the transition from award-winning music theatre performance and production to cabaret has been a natural progression: after introducing the world to Happiness 101 in a short but hilarious preview piece last year, Mel created her unexpected alter-ego and developed the performance into a full-length cabaret show.
Suppressing her own colourful and bubbly personality to bring the character of the ostensibly severe Professor to life has proved a challenge (and a surprise to all her friends!), but Mel’s singing, dancing, choregraphy and production talents are all being showcased in this fun and funny show.
With cabaret songs that will wreck some happy havoc with music theatre favourites such as Hairspray, Chicago and Legally Blonde, Happiness 101 will leave you with a song in your heart and a smile on your face. Just ask the Professor herself!
24-27 Feb, 7pm Thurs-Sat, 6pm Sun
204 Bank Street, South Melbourne
Tix: $22/$18
Bookings: www.thebutterflyclub.com
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Written and Performed by Melissa Trickey
Directed by Kim Edwards
Accompanied by Rowland Braché
Theatre Press 