CABARET
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Following a sell out season at the famous Butterfly Club during the 2010 Melbourne Midsumma Festival, Rachel Juhasz brings her emotional one woman autobiographical cabaret to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Rachel is a self confessed massive Judy Garland fan and can recount several moments of her life that are symbolised by many of Judy’s most famous songs. This isn’t a show about Judy Garland and nor does she try to physically imitate Judy in anyway. What she does do is open her heart and her teenage and early adult journals to allow us to see how she first found love, accepted it, watched it flicker out and ultimately watch as she had to let the man she loved get away from her. At various points she launches into song in a classy jazz voice very reminiscent of Mrs Garland. Despite suffering from a bout of summer flu she succeeds in getting the audience into her grasp aided by the talented Jonathan Harvey (no not the British writer) at the onstage grand Piano.

Such Garland standards like “You made me love you”, “Embraceable you” and “ the man that got away” feature in the sit list and she also resists the temptation to sing one song you may have heard called “over the rainbow”.

At the end of the hour in her company you can help but feel completely entertained and hoping she really did get the happy ending at the end of the rainbow she so deserves. Catch this one in the home of the Edinburgh jazz scene during here limited engagement during the festival.