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Dark Kabaret (www.DarkKabaret.com)-A One-Night Stand of Vaudeville and Burlesque Wonder at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

San Francisco, CA. October 2, 2006 – Dark Kabaret will be presented at the Great American Music Hall on November 18, 2006. The illustrious and musical Dark Kabaret, blends feverish vaudeville with the vibrancy of a modern song-and-dance. It is the setting of magic, mystery and romance, echoing the frenzied bitter-sweetness of a time that was much sexier and addictive than our own, striving to surge people into a frantic gaiety. This show is not the calm before the storm; it is the storm itself in all its majestic and intense beauty.

Dark Kabaret is staged in a torrid nightclub atmosphere where a mincing master of ceremonies – Paul Nathan – creates an illicit welcome to the cabaret’s guests, promising them naughty songs and enticingly half-dressed girls, all of which are indeed delivered in spades. It captures a foreboding atmosphere but dwells only incidentally on doom and focuses instead on decadence. It quickly becomes evident that Dark Kabaret is a thrilling assemblage of daring carnival-esque music by Eric McFadden and Eric Burdon (The Animals) set against the tinseled background of delicious and terrible madness.

Dark Kabaret is directly influenced by Nathan’s explorations of the globe. Each act is hand picked by Paul allowing for a dizzying, earth-quaking shock of magnificent, unique talent.

Dark Kabaret is a brassy pleasure-haunt reminiscent of Weimar Era Berlin with wild nightlife and joyful sin. Paul creates a love affair between the audience and the stage. The romance inevitably blossoms as ladies, half-tart and half-innocent, provide a raffish nightclub atmosphere.

THE PERFORMERS

Paul Nathan - Emcee (www.firemagic.com) a professional magician providing high-end entertainment. He has appeared on HBO, MTV, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and Star Trek Voyager. Paul has performed in New York City, L.A., Berlin, Hong Kong and nearly every city along the way. He has performed for royalty, celebrities, dignitaries, presidents and common people alike.

Eric McFadden – Musical Inspiration (www.EricMcFadden.com) McFadden may just be one of the hardest working performers in the business. Fresh off a European tour with Eric Burdon and the New Animals, McFadden returns to the states and hits the ground running. He will finish out this season on the road with the Eric McFadden Trio in support of their new album, Joy of Suffering.

Eric Burdon – Musical Headliner (www. EricBurdon.com) Eric Burdon's life has been a musical journey matched by few other performers in rock music history. He has gone from the driving force of the grittiest British Invasion band, to pioneering the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene, to fronting WAR - the biggest funk band of the 1970's, to cutting an LP with an early influence, jazz-blues great Jimmy Witherspoon, to coming full-circle and reuniting his original band, The Animals, for a series of projects and world-wide tours, to forming new groups of “Animals” and releasing a series of studio CDs, live CD’s, a DVD, and his second autobiography, which was translated in several languages.

Frank Olivier – World Renowned Juggler (www.FunnyFrank.com) Frank has been performing professionally for 20 years. Upon graduating from high school, Frank attended Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Clown College. He has performed in Sugar Babies with Mickey Rooney and has been seen on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Steve Brown – Yo Yo Ninja (www.SteveBrownIsMyHero.com) Steve has been performing with yo-yos professionally for more than 12 years, and has done shows in 18 countries. His blend of jaw-dropping skill, comedic timing, and physical comedy leave audiences begging for more...and wondering why they bothered going to college and getting real jobs. Steve loves you, he really does, and hopes that you love him too.

Dark Garden Corsetry – Absinthe Drenched Fashion Show (www.DarkGarden.com) this show is like sipping licorice flavored elixir under the breezing canopy of an enchanted tree. This fashion show will make you beg for more and whisper sweet nothings to someone special while preaching the dangers of dressing inappropriately.

Ticket and Schedule Information:

TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 6TH, 2006

Tickets are $15-$75 To purchase tickets visit the Dark Kabaret Web site www.DarkKabaret.com or call the Great American Music Hall box office at 1-800-225-2277. Early performance starts promptly at 8pm and the late performance starts at 10pm.

The Great American Music Hall is located at 859 O’Farrell Street between Polk and Larkin. For more detailed directions please visit www.MusicHallSF.com.