Lady Rizo Special Show 16 June 2025

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We are thrilled to announce a one off special mid winter show featuring the extraordinary Lady Rizo who is visiting from the US to perform at the  Adelaide Festival. 

"If you only see one cabaret show this year, see Lady Rizo" - Time Out London

"fierce but kindhearted fusion of comedy, burlesque, performance art and rock ’n’ roll" - New York Times

"But it’s really all about the songs and that incredible voice. It deserves a full house every night. If this is what a true American apology looks like, all is forgiven..." - Herald Sun

“An anarchist streak still runs through me,” says Rizo, the singer-sophisticate who was once a teenage punk rocker. A provocateur with an electric wit, Rizo is a vessel for the spirits of Edith Piaf and Freddie Mercury.

Rizo has collaborated with Moby, Reggie Watts, and Yo-Yo Ma, the latter on his Songs of Joy & Peace album, which won a Grammy Award.

She’s received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, a Time Out London theatre award, and a 2013 London Cabaret Award. She also co-composed music for Adam Rapp’s Los Angeles, as well as theme songs for the Fuse network and E! Entertainment. All of which is to say: Our Lady of Perpetual Creativity is, by design, many things to many people.

Taking a cue from Piaf, Rizo 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. “Freddie Mercury embodied songs with his voice and body,” she says, admiringly. Like the Queen singer, she too can make even the simplest sentiment feel voluminous.

Rizo just finished a 6 month role as Madame ZinZanni in Teatro ZinZanni’s Love, Chaos & Dinner in Chicago. 

Monday June 16th

Doors at 6pm, Music from 7pm

Starfish Kitchen will be open from 6pm.