Cairns Little Theatre's latest production takes pride in a well worn adage, writes PETER EDSON.

You’ve heard the saying, "it ain’t over till the fat lady sings".

Well, the Cairns Little Theatre’s next fringe production, aptly called The Fat Lady Sings, pushes this old saying to its limits.

The fictitious Clifton Beach Amateur Theatre Group is in dire trouble. It’s $245 in the red, 86 members of the public demanded a refund after their last production and six people are suing them for psychological damage caused by their pantomime.

In fact, things are so bad for this group that the public buy tickets to their productions as gifts for people they hate.

The ultimate insult is the fact that a rival amateur theatre group is starting up in Kewarra Beach, aptly called the New Age Kewarra Amateurs (NAKAS for short), and they are staging a musical in competition with their rivals, called Sex, Drugs and Rick ’n Noel.

The Clifton players haven’t got a hope – their last musical production was so awful it caused complaints from the local alley cats.

Short of hiring a hit man to take out the opposition’s performers, this amateur group looks like they’re finished. Or are they?

Plans are being hatched to sabotage their rival’s production.

Needless to say, it goes riotously wrong, but you’ll just have to come along to the Rondo to see how it all turns out.

Under the direction of Frank Joel (the man who brought you Fawlty Towers and Girls Night Out) you know you are in for a rollicking night of fun and laughs.

Add to this the featured comedic talents of Wayne Rees, Wayne Hogan, Krysten James and Kate Newman, and this is one fringe comedy play not to be missed.

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