Malthouse Theatre – Southbank
Red Shoes – Meow Meow returns
International cabaret icon Meow Meow returns to Melbourne with Meow Meow’s Red Shoes, a wildly inventive, darkly funny and achingly beautiful reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytale, at Malthouse’s Merlyn theatre.
Drawing on the myth of a young girl who cannot stop dancing, Meow Meow explores the seduction of desire, the fragility of identity, and the hunger for transcendence that every performer wants to step back into the spotlight again and again.
The beguiling fairytale offers audiences the perfect end-of-year escape – a dazzling cabaret spectacle that leans into frenzy, ferocity and joy, with a wink, a gap and more than a little mischief.
SEASO: 19 November – 3 December, 7.30pm.
Eltham Little Theatre
Whodunnit
Six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer’s mansion during a thunderstorm.
The guests include an aged rear admiral, a bitchy aristocrat, a doddering old archaeologist, a dashing young cad and other Agatha Christie types.
One of the guests is an oily Levantine who tells the others that he has the goods to blackmail them.
He is ripe for murder and so it happens. Whodunnit?
This is a tabled event – take your own food and beverages.
Bookings: 0411 713 095.
Season: Friday 21 November – Sunday 6 December.
1812 Theatre
Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica
It’s an age-old-question: do opposites attract.
More specifically could you date someone who had completely different music desires to you.
Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica explores this contested idea with oodles of wit and charm through the story of a very unlikely pair.
It’s the beginning of a new friendship between Miss Monica and her contractor, Gary.
Miss Monica has taken leave from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to tendinitis in her shoulder and decides to employ Gary to install her IKEA-designed décor.
Unbeknown to the trained musician, Gary has an alto ego of Rhinestone Rex, a washed-up country music star who intends to convince Monica that country music is just as valid as her classical music.
Both single and alone, a little spark forms between the two, but are they too dissimilar to match or do opposites attract?
Season: 13 November – 6 December. Bookings: 9758 3964
Lilydale Athenaeum theatre
Sister Amnesia’s Country Western Jamboree
In Nunsense 1, wacky nun, Sister Mary Amnessia, regained her memory and recalled that she always wanted to be a country singer.
In Nunsense 11, her dream became one step closer to reality when Reverend Mother landed a recording contract for her.
The third in the series in Dan Grogan’s series of Nunsense musicals, this hilarious comedy is cheered by audiences and critics alike as funny and fast-paced.
Outrageously funny musical numbers include We Miss You Patsy Cline and A Cowgirl from Canarsie where Sister amnesia’s dream is realised as ache headlines a brand new sow promoting her debut album I Coud Have gone to Nashville.
Season: 20 November – 6 December. Bookings: 9735 1777
