Billy the Rabbit

Our city’s Cartoonist Laureate is this weekend doing live shows at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Nick Spunde
Published on November 06, 2012

Overview


Love Leunig? Chances are if you’re a Melburnian, the anwer’s a warm-hearted yes. Our city’s Cartoonist Laureate - to coin a title for the special role Michael Leunig and his curly-headed creations plays in our city consciousness - is this weekend doing live shows at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

He will, naturally, be cartooning, his live drawing projected onto a screen, accompanied by melodies from former pop starlet turned soulful songstress Gyan. Gyan - one of Australia’s original reality TV stars (having gained notice on Star Search in the '80s) recorded a whole album using Leunig’s poetry for lyrics, titled Billy the Rabbit, in 2006. She and Leunig have performed it together as a song-plus-cartoon cabaret several times since its launch at the Melbourne Writers Festival that year and they won a Sydney Theatre Award for it in 2007.

It’s back for two shows only, so catch this rabbit while you can.

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