Dolly Diamond's Rather Large Variety Night

Award-winning, sharp-tongued cabaret diva Dolly Diamond comes to Bunjil Pace for a night of inimitable Dolly-style cabaret. With some sugar, spice, and only a little bit of nice.

After a hugely successful run in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Midsumma Festival in 2023, this UK-born Australian icon brings “Dolly Diamond’s Rather Large Variety Night” to Melbourne this February.

Dolly will be joined onstage by Melbourne’s finest talent and rising stars because she’s “never afraid to shine the spotlight on others, just as long as it comes beaming back onto her.”

Dolly Diamond “will make you laugh so hard your ribs will hurt” (broadwayworld.com)

“Dolly has superb comic skills and whisky-soaked vocal talents” (weekendnotes.com)

SPECIAL GUESTS 

Iva Rosebud 
Tradie by day and drag Queen by night, Iva Rosebud is the birthchild of Cruella and Phyllis Diller. Iva made their mark on the Melbourne cabaret scene with her solo show ‘And I, in my Chair’ (Melbourne Cabaret Festival) described as “more than earning its standing ovation). She made her Victorian Opera debut in ‘The Happy End’ (Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne) and is a resident Artistè in leading avant-garde cabaret company Finucane & Smith, FUTURE. JOY. CLUB (Sofitel Melbourne on Collins) & ‘Dance Hall’ (National Tour). Iva will be returning to Adelaide Fringe after performing in ‘The Marvellous Elephant Man the Musical’ (Wonderland Spiegeltent) with their new collaboration ‘HUSH’ (nineteen-ten). And she had a “blast” in ‘She Slayed’ a Drag Murder Mystery, with Dolly Diamond for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Jens Radda 
Jens Radda is a singer, actor, drag artist, and cabaret performer. Before moving to Australia in 2007, Jens grew up in South Africa to a Danish and Afrikaans-speaking family.  

He made his TV debut in ABC TV’s ‘All MY Friends Are Racist’ and has since gone on to originate the role of Memphis in Seasons 2 and 3 of 'Single, Out’ (Melbourne Indie Pro).  

In Cabaret, Jens has worked extensively with Finucane & Smith (FUTURE.JOY.CLUB, Dance Hall, House of The Heart) and Dolly Diamond (Melbourne & Edinburgh). Recently he performed in She Slayed: The Drag Murder Mystery for MICF and can regularly be seen hosting various shows in Melbourne, most regularly at Speakeasy Theatre. Jens’ ongoing touring productions include Madame Martha’s Hush Cabaret and Skank Sinatra which won Best Cabaret at the Adelaide Fringe weekly awards.  

Jens’ theatre credits include Ruthless The Musical (Sylvia swing, Stagebugs Productions), Grease The Musical (Teen Angel, Cope Creative/De Jager Productions, QLD), The Serpent’s Teeth (KXT Kings Cross Theatre, Sydney), I Walk In Your Words (ATYP, Sydney), Reclaiming Harry (Adelaide Fringe Festival), Holy Ship! (Cope Creative, Queensland), Chicago (Mad About Theatre, QLD), Next Lesson (New Theatre, Sydney), A Chorus Line (Mad About Theatre, QLD), We Are Gods (NIDA Directors and Designers Graduating Production, Sydney).

Since graduating from WAAPA’s Musical Theatre course in 2016, Jens has gone on to study Clowning with Philippe Gaulier in Paris and Vocal Technique at Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen.  

Azcadelia 
Name pronunciation: az - cuh - deal - e – uh 
Pronouns: she/her/they/them

Prepare your fantasies and your nightmares for AZCADELIA - the face that launched a thousand sexual awakenings. The sovereign of the spotlight in Melbourne’s drag and burlesque scenes, gripping their audience as tight as their corset with perfect stage presence and chameleonic characters. Known to every stage worth its salt since 2019, Azcadelia brings high campery and high concepts into technicolour - their talents earning them Judges’ Choice at Burlesque Idol Australia 2020.  

Azcadelia makes any gig their playground, whether it’s bringing the party to local bars or captivating crowds in full theatrics. Masterful onstage and a masterpiece in visual media, this Queen of Queer is both the princess and evil stepmother of her own fairy tale: a Gemini with two faces- and they’re both irresistible! Right where arthouse meets madhouse, Azcadelia is coming to hypnotise and terrorise.  

EROTIC. ERRATIC. ELECTRIC. THEY ARE - AZCADELIA!