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AUDIENCE members at The Palace Theatre in Manchester will be joining in with hits like We Are The Champions, Radio Ga Ga and We Will Rock You this Saturday evening.

Freddie Mercury look-a-like Gary Mullen, who won the Stars in their Eyes grand final in 2000, is bringing his band The Works for one night only to the Palace to entertain guests with showmanship, pomp and style.

Tickets for the show at 7.30pm on Saturday are available by ringing the box office on 0870 401 3000.

FUN and laughter will be the order of the day this weekend as comedy duo Mel and Sue take their show to The Lowry, Salford Quays.

There promises to be more banter and out-of-tune singing from 8pm this Saturday and the box office can be contacted on 0870 787 5780.

FRESH from an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival, Out-of-Joint Theatre Company will be presenting Duck at The Library Theatre in Manchester.

The show will be on until Saturday, September 6 and tickets can be obtained by ringing 0161 236 7110.

CHETHAM'S School of Music will be performing the children's opera Brundibar twice this Saturday together with the premiere of a contemporary drama commissioned by the NSPCC.

Written by Hans Krasa, Brundibar was performed 55 times in the model Nazi camp in Terezin between 1943 and 1944.

The performances will start at 6pm and 8pm at the Bolton Octagon Theatre and tickets are available by ringing 01204 520661.

THE Chester Gateway's autumn season gets under way tonight, Thursday, with the semi-autobiographical South African play Out of Bounds.

It tells the story of Lal and his family growing up in a township on the outskirts of Durban during and after the apartheid.

The play runs until Saturday.

Tickets can be obtained by ringing 01244 340392.

HOLLY Dawes' art exhibition, Lipstick, Powder and Paint, is open at the Chester Gateway Gallery until the middle of October.

The portraits of women are created using lipstick kiss marks as well as Holly's own hair and the display will be open to visitors until Sunday, October 12.

More information is available by ringing 01244 344238 ext 105.

NORTHERN comedy Hobson's Choice will be at The Lowry from next Tuesday, September 9, set in a modern-day Asian community.

The play has been adapted by award-winning Tanika Gupta and will be in Salford Quays until next Saturday, September 13.

Tickets are available by ringing the box office on 0870 787 5780.

SHAKESPEARE'S romantic comedy As You Like It starts its touring production at The Regent Theatre in Stoke on Trent next week.

This latest production will be on from Monday, September 8 until Saturday, September 13 and tickets can be obtained by ringing the box office on 01782 213800 or Ticketmaster on 0870 9080 888 (24 hours, booking fee). See Interview Page 108