Jasmine wants to be empowered, while Snow White might be a bit more psychotically unbalanced than you might remember. Tinkerbell has a lot of built-up anger inside her, and Belle might be turned on by bestiality. These are not the Disney stories you might remember, but they are a hundred times funnier.
A guilty pleasure if there ever was one, Princess Cabaret destroys any ideals of the Disney Princess and gives a fun hour of re-visited views on what it is to be a Princess in today’s world. Away goes the subdued, quiet, woman who will do as her man says, and in comes Cinderella in female empowering classes, Aurora’s love for the modern world (where human contact means sexual diseases, and where masturbation is the way forward) or Ariel’s ideals of what the world out there (out of the sea) might be like.
There isn’t much to fault in this show by a group of seven talented Australian performers, and their hour goes flying past, with the audience leaving with their whole body hurting of laughter. There is not a dull moment, but be aware that this is not for the faint hearted. Their jokes are very un-PC, so if you are easily horrified by Tinkerbell wondering what a Tampon is, or by Jasmine’s lesbian tendencies, you better stay at home. The rest of us should head to the Gilded Balloon and enjoy true comedy genius. Princess Cabaret deserves several viewings, and these Princesses deserve a bigger audience.
4/5 
Adrian G. Velazquez
(10 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)
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