International Cabaret and Musical Theatre star Chelsea Plumley has just returned to live in Australia after 4 years treading the boards in London.
This gorgeous Australian entertainer traverses the gamut of theatrical experience from song to stand-up at breakneck speed. Unpredictable, thrilling and cheeky…Chelsea Plumley in performance is a rare artist who bares herself completely on stage, creating incredible intimacy with the audience. The sheer force of Plumley’s personality is mesmerising as she darts from dazzling Broadway tunes centre stage to comedic ditties deftly executed from the piano. It is “more than a collection of fine music, performed with consummate musicianship… it is a serio-comic promenade through the life and song of a very fine artist.”(Dr David Schwartz, NY Cabaret.Org).
Chelsea developed and honed her craft accompanying cabaret and musical theatre stars across Australia and produced and hosted cabaret soirees for two years at Side On Café in Sydney in the late nineties. Her first show Chelsea Plumley in Concert debuted at the Sydney Opera House in 2000. New York followed with rave reviews and a 5-city tour of India distinguishing Chelsea as the first Australian cabaret artist to conquer the Himalayas!
In 2003, after hosting and starring in the prestigious Sydney Cabaret Convention, Chelsea toured LIVE & LUSCIOUS to huge critical acclaim and received a coveted GLUG award for “Most Versatile Performance”.
Not content with being Queen of comedic cabaret, Chelsea is a highly acclaimed musical theatre actress whose notable roles include Amy in Company, Rizzo in Grease, and Betty in Sunset Boulevard.
Chelsea launched her first solo album Live & Luscious in 2004 followed by a move to London where she resided with her husband James Roche (one half of chart-topping Australian pop duo Bachelor Girl) for 4 years.
Whilst based in London, Chelsea’s reputation for versatility was well earned. She made her UK cabaret debut in Live & Luscious; she was the West End correspondent for Australian radio program Broadway At Bedtime on Joy Melbourne 94.9fm; she traveled internationally with opera/musical theatre act Incognito Artists; she was invited to produce and perform at the Showcase of Australian Talent for the Australia Day Foundation in 2007; she regularly hosted and performed cabaret evenings at the Cellardoor on The Strand, Soho Revue Bar and The Lost Society; she performed her unique comedic cabaret at the behest of renowned peer, Lord Kirkham; she appeared in the short film Angel which opened at the historic Curzon Cinema in Soho; she starred as Red in the musical production Everything’s F**ked and in her capacity as piano bar pianist and singer - Chelsea gigged in some of London’s top hotels including; the Ritz; the Dorchester; the Millennium Mayfair and the Churchill.
Chelsea was thrilled to be included in the inaugural edition of the Who’s Who of Australian Women (2006) and in 2007; she took time out from her UK commitments to unveil her new one-woman show, Gorgeous to her Sydney and Melbourne audiences.
Chelsea returned to live in Australia permanently mid-2008 in order to begin rehearsals for The Boy From Oz. She will be musically directing the Victorian College of the Arts (V.C.A.) production, due to open in November.
