Odeon Richmond
1925 - Vive La Difference!
The Playground Devils featuring Gala Hallelujah, DJ Randy Lipz XXX, DJ Bricolage
Odeon Richmond (Richmond, VIC)
Tuesday, 31 December 2024 8:00 pm
1925 - Vive la difference! Celebrating diversity and icons of 1925!
Jazz up your 1925 alter ego and head to Odeon Richmond where you will enjoy the hedonistic aural pleasure of Maestro Adam Rudegair's live band, The Playground Devils, featuring your temptress Gala Hallelujah as Mistress of Ceremonies. Speakeasy o’clock strikes at 1am with a lock-in and DJs continuing the dance tunes ‘til all you hepcats cain’t dance no mo’!!!
A glass of Sparkling wine and Meze plate await your arrival.
Absinthe Frappe, Sparkling wine and many cocktails available for purchase.
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1925 - what a year!
It’s 1925 and the Art Deco style is born, Josephine Baker performs the Danse Sauvage, wearing little more than a banana skirt, F. Scott Fitzgeralds’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ is published and the first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.
At 16, gay icon Gladys Bentley moves to Harlem and answers an ad for Harry Hansberry's Clam House - one of the city's most notorious gay speakeasies – for a male pianist. She perfected her act, becomes popular and successful.
In 1925 the American silent horror film The Phantom of the Opera is released, starring Lon Chaney. Rudolph Valentino forms his own production company.
Dress to impress and let’s toast the Prohibition! Glitz, glamour and wild times!
Jazz up your 1925 alter ego and head to Odeon Richmond where you will enjoy the hedonistic aural pleasure of Maestro Adam Rudegair's live band, The Playground Devils, featuring your temptress Gala Hallelujah as Mistress of Ceremonies. Speakeasy o’clock strikes at 1am with a lock-in and DJs continuing the dance tunes ‘til all you hepcats cain’t dance no mo’!!!
A glass of Sparkling wine and Meze plate await your arrival.
Absinthe Frappe, Sparkling wine and many cocktails available for purchase.
**************
1925 - what a year!
It’s 1925 and the Art Deco style is born, Josephine Baker performs the Danse Sauvage, wearing little more than a banana skirt, F. Scott Fitzgeralds’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ is published and the first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.
At 16, gay icon Gladys Bentley moves to Harlem and answers an ad for Harry Hansberry's Clam House - one of the city's most notorious gay speakeasies – for a male pianist. She perfected her act, becomes popular and successful.
In 1925 the American silent horror film The Phantom of the Opera is released, starring Lon Chaney. Rudolph Valentino forms his own production company.
Dress to impress and let’s toast the Prohibition! Glitz, glamour and wild times!