Music and murder on the menu

THEATRE

A sure-fire hit featuring 30 sure-fire hits! – that’s the boast from Stage Door Dinner Theatre about its next production Rock n Roll Inferno that plays up at Bowen Hills from 22 October to 24 December.

Damien Lee and his merry band ramp up the jukebox full of classic rock ‘n’ roll that pays homage to the hits of the biggest names of the 50s, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Dianna Ross and the Supremes, Connie Francis and Chuck Berry, Through the performance of their songs, and multi-media presentation, the audience will be transported back to the 1950s where they will relive the music, the stars and the era. So pull on the bobby socks with a musical that will burn the floor and leave you wanting more the theatre blurb says. A fantastic idea for Christmas Party bookings and social clubs, it says – and who are we to disagree!

• Bookings to the theatre on 3216 1115.

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Across town – across the river in fact – Centenary Theatre Group is asking the question: “In Casablanca, can anyone get away with murder?”

Red, White & Boogie is set in Tanajablanca, a mythical city somewhere between Tangiers and Casablanca, and the story takes place in the foyer of a seedy hotel where a group of shipwrecked survivors are holed up, and an international financier ends up shot, strangled and stabbed.
All of the occupants are horrified, but none of them want the police involved so they decide to sell the body in the Casbah. They wrap the body in bandages to disguise it and throw it out the window for Ali to collect – but the body disappears!
It’s directed by Steve Pearton and features Helene Holland, Andrew Wallace, Jan Lord, Samantha McLaughlin and Joshua Bevan The season runs at the Chelmer Community Centre on the corner of Queenscroft and Halsbury streets, Chelmer from 5 to 26 November – Friday & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 6pm. There’s a licensed bar with plenty of free street parking

• Phone 0435 591 720 to book.