Dolly Diamond's Rather Large Variety Night

Award-winning, sharp-tongued cabaret diva Dolly Diamond comes to Bunjil Place 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 

Rose Garden
U.K drag legend Rose Garden returns to Australia after a self-imposed exile in the Mother country and is more than ready to return and excited to join the cast.

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.  

Ziegfeld Boy
Ziegfeld Boy has been professionally undressing himself for many years now. Headlining in shows such as Sugarbabies, Scoundrels, Ziegfeld Boy, Bombshell and De-Nuded, he has appeared at a range of high profile venues and festivals around the country including Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Ballarat Cabaret Festival, Midsumma, Feast as well as Perth and Sydney Fringe Festivals.

With an extensive background in Music Theatre, Ziegfeld Boy has also appeared onstage with clothes on. He has toured in many Australian productions including; The Emcee in Cabaret; Keno in The Full Monty; Cosme McMoon in Glorious and; Rooster Hannigan in Annie.