Growing Old Disgracefully

Growing Old Disgracefully!

R400 per person, inclusive of a Pienk Kerk Burger or Yanni's Famous Artisan Pasta

Own Wine Permitted - No Corkage Fee

5 pm Sharp! Please arrive in good time, no formal seating arrangements

Join international cabaret artist, Tonya Koenderman in her hilarious comedy cabaret, Growing Old Disgracefully - a light-hearted, frank look at the funny side of ageing!

After her sold-out performances at The Hilton Festival, Durban, Midlands, and Redhill festival, Tonya returns to Joburg for two nights at Die Pienk Kerk.

Do you put your car keys in the fridge? Do you walk into a room and forget why you went there in the first place? Are your arms starting to resemble bat wings? You are not alone! Come enjoy a glass of wine or six with this pint-sized dynamo and enjoy a show filled with laughter and just a few tears.

All your favourite songs will be featured, with a wicked twist. The evergreen but, perhaps, dated These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things has been rebooted to embrace more age-appropriate themes. All about That Base is now an ode to make-up and other anti-ageing tools, while the classic Memories, from the musical Cats, is now about…well…remembering. All in all, you can look forward to a side-splitting night of entertainment and fun-filled frivolity. Sorry in advance for the new laugh lines.

About Tonya

Tonya has been hailed by critics as "one of the hottest properties on the cabaret circuit.

Tonya started her career fresh out of drama school with Kevin Feather's cabaret, The Dooh Wah Girls, in 1990, which toured the country for four years.

Other cabarets under her belt are Dooh Wah Girls, We 3, Juke is King, Jive to the Juke, and Wurlitzer, All of Woman and Shake Your Bootie, and the Durban award-nominated Convent Girls (with old school pal, Lisa Bobbert). All of these shows performed to packed houses throughout South Africa.

Her solo cabarets include the hits, Tonya unwrapped, Makin' Whoopee, Liza with a T, Age of Aquarius, A Night In Paris, When Jazz Was King and Born To Diva.

Tonya performed in the look-alike, sound-alike show, Stars in your Eyes, impersonating her favourite artist, Liza Minnelli, which ran for two seasons at the Carousel in Johannesburg.

Tonya has worked extensively for Sun International in numerous extravaganzas throughout South Africa.

Tonya had the great honour of being the only local artist to star in the Sun City sensation, Beyond Belief, which ran for 16 months at the Sun City Extravaganza, in which again she impersonated the legendary Liza Minnelli.

Most recently, Tonya has been very much in the corporate function scene, performing for the likes of Investec, Standard Bank, Nedbank, Appletizer, Gillette, S.A. Breweries, Avis, Adcock Ingram, World Travel, VWV, Absa, Discovery, Virgin Active, to name but a few.

Apart from dazzling Saudi Arabian “royalty”, she has performed in countries such as Australia, Mauritius, Seychelles, Ethiopia (for the WHO) and Morocco.