Photo Credit: James Penlides
good day sunshine
the lennon & mccartney songbook
Three of Australia’s top cabaret performers are joining forces to take you on a Magical Mystery Tour through this collection of the finest pop songs ever written.
Fancy singing along with the ‘na na na na’ bit in Hey Jude? Like to give peace a chance? Ever listened to Abbey Road and thought “Hey, those guys are actually quite good!”? Does All My Loving bring back some awkward memories of Johnny Young and The Young Talent Team? Inhale oxygen and exhale Carbon Dioxide? Then this is the show for you!!
There’s something for everyone in The Great Liverpudlian Songbook and this multi award winning cabaret trio serve it up it with their trademark offbeat humour and a healthy dose of the hottest three-part harmonies on the planet!
You can expect highbrow harmony and lowbrow comedy!
Songs include The Long And Winding Road, Ticket to Ride, Let it Be, Live And Let Die, Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, Imagine, Lady Madonna, And I Love Her, Norwegian Wood, Got To Get You Into My Life, Baby You Can Drive My Car..…. Beep Beep, mm Beep Beep, Yeah!
Warning: Show may contain traces of Ob La Di Ob La Da.
Libby O’Dononvan is a “powerful and sassy performer” (SMH), renowned for her nuanced interpretations and extraordinary voice. She is a critically acclaimed Jazz and Cabaret performer and an award-winning Musical Director.
Libby has entertained audiences world-over with her unique talents, performing in New York, Tokyo and Toronto as well as Australia-wide. Equally at home in small ensemble acts as well as solo performances, she has been a proud member of ARIA nominated Coco’s Lunch, Flat on Your Bacharach, and Women With Standards, for which she won a Green Room Award for Musical Direction.
Highly regarded as a solo artist, Libby has performed seasons for the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Edinburgh Fringe, Sydney Spring Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, the International Jazz Educators Convention, Adelaide Cabaret Festival (including working with Broadway composers Jason Robert-Brown and Andrew Lippa), Melbourne Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Feast Festival, and the Wangaratta Jazz Festival.
Her theatre credits include Matthew Robinson’s Metro Street, Doppio Parallelo’s DJ Squat, Contaminations Lab and The Last Child, Vitalstatistix’s Way Dead Cool and Patch Theatre Company’s Sharon Keep Ya Hair On! Libby’s recent body of work in Cabaret includes The Story of Meredith Crocksley, Some of My Best Friends Are Single and Gady La La: Songs for the Sophisticated Fag Hag.
Melissa's theatre appearances include; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, LES MISERABLES, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, THE MIKADO, EUROBEAT, WE WILL ROCK YOU (Killer Queen) in Japan, THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Malthouse Theatre/The Victorian Opera) HOW TO KILL YOUR HUSBAND (The Victorian Opera) for which she received a Green Room Award nomination for Best Female Performer in an Opera, INTO THE WOODS (The Victorian Opera) and was part of the Angel City Four in CITY OF ANGELS. In 2025, she performed the role of The Housewife for the Sydney season of MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL (SK Entertainment).
For The Production Company; CURTAINS (Carmen Bernstein), CAROUSEL (Nettie Fowler), 42ND STREET (Maggie Jones), DAMN YANKEES (Gloria Thorpe), FOLLIES (Stella Deems), CRAZY FOR YOU (Patricia Fodor) and SUGAR (Sweet Sue).
Melissa is also a member of the popular girl group THE FABULOUS SINGLETTES and has performed with the group regularly since 1998 throughout Australia, Asia and Europe.
Melissa received GREEN ROOM AWARDS for Best Cabaret Artist and Best Cabaret Ensemble (with Mark Jones) and was a winner of The Sydney Cabaret Convention. She has also received numerous Green Room Award nominations for her roles in music theatre, opera and cabaret.
Mark Jones’s credits as a singer/actor include; Apocalypse Meow (Malthouse Theatre/Brooklyn Academy of Music), A Golem Story (Malthouse Theatre), The School For Wives (Bell Shakespeare), Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd (Malthouse Theatre & Arena Theatre), Good Evening – The Sketches of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (National Tour), Elizabeth – Almost by Chance a Woman (Malthouse Theatre), Eurobeat (Korean Tour) and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Anthill, Chapel off Chapel).
He is one of Melbourne’s busiest cabaret musical directors and has accompanied some of Australia’s top cabaret artists including Meow Meow, Bernadette Robinson, Marina Prior and Toni Lamond.
Green Room Awards: Cyrens (Best Musical Director of a Cabaret 2017), Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd (Best Actor and Best Composition 2010), The Beautiful Losers (Best Cabaret Ensemble 2007 & 2006), Three Weill Men (Best Musical Direction of a Cabaret 2003), Me and Mr Jones (Best Cabaret Ensemble 2002) and Jacques Brel is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (Best Cabaret 2000).
Helpman Award Nomination: Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd (Best Actor 2010)
what people are saying.
“Punchy vocals and killer voices. A full throttle cabaret show”
“An astounding, dazzling romp through the songbook of Lennon and McCartney. With the inspirational arrangements and powerful voices of Melissa Langton, Libby O’Donovan and Mark Jones this Beatles cover show is a surefire winner
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“Sensational hardly begins to describe this talented trio who combine the smoothest of melded voices, killer solos and extraordinarily clever arrangements. All the above delivered with polish and panache
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