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Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Editing and Publishing, University of Southern Queensland

Congratulations, Get Rich! is a glittering ghost story where emotion is lost to theatrics

Stephen Henry

Merlynn Tong’s new play, Congratulations, Get Rich!, bursts onto stage with all the colour and flair you’d expect from a work set in a struggling Singaporean-style karaoke bar.

Currently playing at Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre, the play opens with Mandy (Tong) and her doting boyfriend Xavier (Zac Boulton) caught in a literal and metaphorical storm on the 7th night of Chinese New Year, as the couple fight to save their failing business, Money Money Karaoke.

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