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EVITA SE PERRON
DARLING
F.A.K. SONGS
Pieter-Dirk Uys presents Evita Bezuidenhout's sister Bambi Kellerman in her unique cabaret - opening at The Fugard Theatre from 31 Aug to 18 Sept BOOKINGS AT 021-461 4554
Bambi Kellermann, born Baby Poggenpoel in Bethlehem OFS somewhere in
the late 1930s. Married Joachim von Kellermann in 1957. 'This Bambi, a Marlene Dietrich clone from hell, a very dark Blue Angel, part Euro-slut, part boer and part lush. Welcome!'Hamburg Zeitung March 1959
This is what the cabaret is about: Bambi's extraordinary story of survival is told in song and sketch, her background echoed in familiar
tunes, her inspirations gently mocked through canny impersonation. With music arranged by Godfrey Johnson and performed by Bambi's Bokkie Band, 'F.A.K. Songs and Other Struggle Anthems' is performed in three languages. Bambi's story is told in English, while the songs also include some in German and some in Afrikaans. This cabaret is not for the faint-hearted.
It unites the acrid stench of the old Weimar Republic of the 1930s and the sexy rot of Hamburg's Reperbahn with the familiar aromas associated with 'ons eie' Voortrekker-camps and braaivleis-orgies. Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout will not be on stage with Bambi. The two sisters are sworn enemies and have never been seen in the same place at the same time. And for good reason. Whereas Evita is proper in all aspects, Bambi is not. The former stripper/sex worker now runs her internationally-known wine cellar in Paarl - with 'special offers' on weekends, plus condoms.
With her Nazi husband's ashes in an urn on the piano, Bambi sings about love and confides about life. Not for the squeamish or the proper, this cabaret features songs by Kurt Weill and Stephen Sondheim, as well as a selection of familiar Afrikaans liedjies from the legendary F.A.K Sangbundel, a songbook of the federation of Afrikaans Cultural organisations, reinvented by Bambi to suit the mood of 2010.
