Murder For Two: Christmas Edition

Back from the dead and home for the holidays.

Oh Come All Ye Fatal… After two killer seasons at Hayes in 2023, a deadly sell-out run at Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and lethally entertaining stops at Riverside Theatres and Arts Centre Melbourne in 2024, the musical-comedy-sensation Murder For Two is finally coming home… just in time to deck the halls (and maybe bump off a party guest or two) with the special Christmas Edition.

This strictly limited 2025 return season reunites the acclaimed original cast: Maverick Newman (“a rocketship, shedding and shifting characters as he soars towards the stratosphere” – Sydney Morning Herald) and musical comedy powerhouse Gabbi Bolt (Spicks & Specks, Ratatouille the TikTok Musical).

Together, they play every character. They also play the piano. And they’re back to sleigh once more in the show that proves murder and mistletoe do mix.

Directed by Hayes Co-Artistic Director Richard Carroll (Calamity Jane, Godspell), Murder For Two: Christmas Edition is an ingenious 90-minute madcap mash-up of music, mayhem and multiple suspects – this time with a jolly holiday twist. Don’t miss out… or Yule be next.

The Story

It’s Christmas Eve. Officer Marcus Moscowicz is a small-town cop with big-time detective dreams. When Great American Novelist Arthur Whitney is shot dead at his own Christmas-birthday party (yep, he’s a Christmas baby), Marcus jumps at the chance to solve the case before the real detective arrives—and while the eggnog’s still chilled.

Whodunit?? Was it Whitney’s terminally dramatic widow? The glacial prima ballerina? That overly friendly psychiatrist with a suspicious amount of Christmas cheer? One thing’s for sure: someone made the naughty list.

Book by Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian | Lyrics by Kellen Blair, Music by Joe Kinosian