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| Carlotta |
Carlotta is Australia’s most famous drag queen with almost fifty years on the stage. Her career started in 1963 when see joined the original cast of Les Girls in Kings Cross and quickly rose to become its star and compere which she mostly did until 1993.
Since
then she had a career in TV and film and toured the country first with her big
showy production show’s and now with her one woman show Life’s still a drag.
This
highly entertaining cabaret show has been touring Australia for the last year
and only last week did she bring it back to her long time stomping ground Kings
Cross as part of the Kings Cross Festival. Preforming in a new cabaret space
within the Kings Cross Hotel; I was delighted that she invited me along to see
the show and generally catch up.
I
guess the most charming surprise is this show is 80% sung live and Carlotta has
the chops to carry it off and at times belts them out. The songs are mostly
showbiz standards and well-chosen to suit her range and theme of this show. A
highlight is The Lady is a Tramp,
which Carlotta has had rearranged and recently released through iTunes.
Basically
it’s Carlotta telling the back story of how Les
Girls came about, what it was like and even a few tell-tales involving the
personalities behind the glamour. Oh yes she certainly lays it all on the line,
and tells it like it was warts and all.
