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Joe Bonamassa @ Palais Theatre
Wednesday 5 October, 8 pm
Blues-rock guitarist extraordinaire Joe Bonamassa with support Sinead Burgess. $164 / $104
Tix and info
Factions | SCIMM Dance Company @ Theatreworks
Thursday 6 October – Sunday 9 October, 8 pm and Sunday 1.30 pm & 6.30 pm
In a fictional dystopian universe, three pure souls emerge and are quickly branded by three evil dictators. Factions explores their journeys through each of these dictatorships; Suppression, Anarchy and Vanity. $35/$30
Tix and info
Sci-fi double feature @ Astor
Thursday 6 October, 7.30 pm
Classic cinema for sci-fi freaks – Barbarella and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. My teenage brain is still recovering from Jane Fonda as Queen of the Galaxy exploding the excess machine. Worthy of the big screen and a few
big screams!
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Light the Night @ South Beach
Friday 7 October, 5.30 pm
Light the Night is the Leukaemia Foundation’s annual fundraising walk to help
more Australians beat blood cancer. It’s never too late to raise a few $$ and
light the night.
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Boom Crash Opera @ Memo
Friday 7 October 8 pm
2017 marks the 30th Anniversary of the bands debut self titled album and they
plan to make some crashing opera in celebration of this landmark event. Tix
$35/$25
More info and bookings
CLOC does Jesus Christ Superstar @ National
7 October – 22 October
CLOC’s motto is “while there is a paying audience there is no such thing as amateur”. And after Wicked and Mary Poppins in recent years, they’ve turned
to JCS for a ‘new beginning’. Tix $50/$52
Info and cast bios
Friends of St Kilda present Paris @ Emerald Hill
Saturday 8 October,11.00 am
Friends of St Kilda Cemetery illuminated talk on the famous Pere Lachaise
Cemetery, Paris and its residents. Free
Emerald Hill Library And Heritage Centre, 195 Bank Street, South Melbourne
More info info@foskc.org
Alan Hopgood in The Carer @ Alex Theatre
Saturday 8 October, 2 pm and 7.30 pm
Alan wrote The Carer and it first appeared in 1999 with Bud Tingwell in the
role. And that production was highly successful. Now Alan brings his acting
talents to the stage. Tix $39/$32
More info and tix
Kinky Friedman @ Memo
Saturday 8 October, 8 pm
Nobody could invent a character quite like Kinky Friedman, the stogie-waving,
black-hat-wearing Texas Jewboy singer, storyteller, tequila purveyor, animal
rescuer and full-time iconoclast. Stuff of legends. Tix $52/$47 More info and bookings
Tips for actors auditions @ Alex Theatre
Sunday 9 October, 3.30 pm
Love them or hate them we all know that auditions are the essential first
step to landing the gig. What are the do’s and don’ts of preparing a great
audition? Hear an expert panel hosted by Actors Benevolent Fund’s Sioban Tuke,
including Janine Snape, Jane Norris, Lou Mitchell and Lynne Ruthven. $25
More info and tix
Adults’ Crafternoon Pet Portraits @ Linden
Sunday 9 October, 2.00 pm
Join Linden Postcard Show artist Mary Neighbour for a workshop where you’ll learn some of the tips and techniques needed to produce a convincing portrait of your beloved canine companion. $50 More info