Bridgeport Hotel will be unmissable during Adelaide Fringe 2023
Whether it’s comedy, music or something else you’re after, there’s sure to be an event for you at Murray Bridge’s premier entertainment venue.
This sponsored post is brought to you by the Bridgeport Hotel.
Get ready, Murray Bridge – the Bridgeport Hotel is bringing the Adelaide Fringe to town.
With a huge lineup of comedy, music and events scheduled, the hotel will be the place to be throughout the festival season.
Whether you want to bliss out to some of your favourite old tunes, snort-laugh into your wine glass or even paint your own masterpiece, you’re sure to find a show you’ll love.
Scroll down to see what’s on at the Bridgeport this February and March.
- More information: Visit adelaidefringe.com.au or call Fringetix on 1300 621 255.
We are Woman
8pm Saturday, February 18
This is the ultimate tribute show to the pioneering female vocalists of the 60s and 70s, featuring Full Tilt Janis, the Janis Joplin tribute show.
Acclaimed vocalist Melissa Jubb and her six-piece, all-star band capture the sound, feel and attitude of Janis as witnessed by countless enthusiastic international audiences, including Australian and Edinburgh Fringe festivals, plus European festivals.
Pearly Gates, also featuring the vocals of Melissa Jubb, perform classic hits from some of the iconic female vocalists of the 60s and 70s, including Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Patti Smith, Carly Simon, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Carole King, Jefferson Airplane, Helen Reddy and more.
- Tickets: $30 at adelaidefringe.com.au, or $70 for a meal and a show
Paint and Sip: Van Gogh, Monet, Klimt and more
11am and 3pm Sunday, February 19
After a sold out season last year, Paintelaide are back with more.
Join them for a two-hour guided painting session to create your very own version of classics by Van Gogh, Monet or Klimt, or to paint a popular original like Mindful Mandala or cocktail art.
No art experience required.
- Tickets: From $59/54 at adelaidefringe.com.au
Redneck Greenie: Confessions of an Ozymoron
6.30pm Friday, February 24
Two rival personalities from diametrically opposed social viewpoints fight it out as one bloke navigates his inner conflict in outrageous and poignantly funny ways.
Playing live original songs, farmboy, actor, comedian and NT Greens candidate Robbie Hoad masterfully weaves fantastically ridiculous true tales as he straddles the genres of stand-up comedy, impro, story-telling, satire and physical theatre.
Audience choose from over 80 stories, including Fear in Tangier, Imagineer Candy Man, Croc Crossing, The Dumbest Thing, A*sehole Angel, Clown Cops and Fringe Criminals – every show is different.
Me ‘n’ Me Mates
2.30pm Saturday, February 25
Country, folk and original songs mixed with bush ballads and comic sketches – Lawson, Paterson, Slim Dusty – celebrating the Australian way with words and sense of humour.
Expect a uniquely Australian experience.
Me ‘n’ Me Mates have performed at many folk and country festivals including the National Folk Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival, aboard the Ghan, at agricultural shows and in town halls, backyards and bus shelters right across SA, Victoria, the ACT and New South Wales alongside Ted Egan, Greg Champion and other prominent folk/country artists, and create a warm and welcoming atmosphere and interact positively with audiences of all ages.
- Tickets: $25/21 at adelaidefringe.com.au
Unpredictable Magic
3.30pm Sunday, February 26
This is an exciting crossover between circus juggling and magic routines, a fun show with a combination of silliness and sophistication for everyone.
Nic from Off the Shelf Juggling, presenting in his Fringe debut, will be joined by Drew Magic in a make-your-own-adventure of wonder, where you have the power to control what happens next.
Nic will juggle just about anything he can throw and brings several amazing routines with unpredicatble objects, while Drew is full of stories and bring magic tricks to life thorugh stories we can all relate to.
- Tickets: $28/24 at adelaidefringe.com.au
Closure at a Self-Serve Checkout
8pm Thursday, March 2 and Friday, March 3
If you’ve ever been ghosted by a Gemini, burned by yet another boy with a mustache, or played the little-known game BitLife in a depressive state and wondered if it would make for a very niche joke in a comedy cabaret show, this is the show for you.
Closure at a Self-Serve Checkout is a ridiculous, raucous, and some may say chaotic one-woman comedy cabaret; a collection of stand-up monologues and witty songs performed by Bobbie and her piano; a show about taking our depressed and broken hearts of the past and finding ways to move on and, most importantly, laugh about it all together.
So come along and enjoy some chaotic catharsis by laughing at some silly little songs about our silly little lives.
- Tickets: $30/27 at adelaidefringe.com.au, or $80 for a meal and a show
Dodgy Drag Divas
7.15pm Saturday, March 4
Adelaide, are you ready?
Come and join star-spangled, sequin-studded divas for a night of camp mockery of divas through the ages – because not one looks like the real deal.
Musical stylings from the 80s through to current times, you’re bound to leave the show laughing, maybe even crying.
- Tickets: $50 at adelaidefringe.com.au.
Funny Adelaide on Tour
8pm Friday, March 10
There’s no place like home, so Funny Adelaide is loading up the campervan and getting around to some suburbs and towns near you (if you live near the ones they’re going to).
On board they will have some of the funniest stand-ups from around the Fringe, including Brisbane’s Shayne Hunter, who is to hecklers what Ivan Milat is to backpackers; Fabien Clark, who has been making SA laugh for two decades; Lauren Thiel, who will tell you in intimate detail what’s happening in her life in the most hilarious way; and Jono Makai, who is super handsome, witty and writing this.
Get ready to laugh your sensational butt off.
- Tickets: $25/21 at adelaidefringe.com.au, or $70 for a meal and a show
Granny Flaps: Hot off the chest tour
8pm Friday, March 17
It’s a brand spanking new show for the award-winning comedy act Granny Flaps.
This ukulele lady will have you laughing from beginning to end as she explores everything from love and lust in your golden years to the joys of a Friday night in your 20s.
“If you want to laugh a lot, be thoroughly entertained, and are not offended by the F word, then this show is for you.” –Broadway World
- Tickets: $28/25 at adelaidefringe.com.au
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