Central Oregon fans of live performance don’t have to go far for a show this weekend.

Cascades Theatre in Bend is putting on a teen production of Ben Elton’s musical “We Will Rock You,” based on the music of Queen. High Desert Chamber Music has brought the SAKURA Cello Quintet to Central Oregon for the first time. The Deschutes Theatre Company will perform a murder mystery comedy. And Ellipse Theater Company is touring Mitch Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie.”

‘We Will Rock You — School Edition’

The Cascades Teen Theatre production will perform the Queen jukebox musical Friday through Sunday. Elton’s story tells of a globalized future without musical instruments where a handful of rock rebels, Bohemians, fight against the all-powerful Globalsoft company and its boss, the Killer Queen, for freedom, individuality and the rebirth of the age of rock.

Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.; $39, $35 for students and seniors; Cascades Theatre, 148 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend; cascadestheatrical.org or 541-389-0803.

HDCM Concert Series — SAKURA Cello Quintet

The cello quintet will make their Central Oregon debut in High Desert Chamber Music’s 16th season. Join members of SAKURA for a pre-concert talk about the program at 6:45 p.m. The program includes Beethoven’s Cavatina Op. 130, quintet member Peter Myers’ “Stratigraphy,” Manuel de Falla’s “Ritual Fire Dance,” Debussy’s “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair,” Schubert’s “Erlkönig” and Piazzolla’s “Adiós Nonio.”

Friday 7:30-9 p.m.; $48 general admission, $10 student/child; Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon, 61980 Skyline Ranch Road, Bend; highdesertchambermusic.com or 541-306-3988.

‘Women in Jeopardy’

This murder mystery comedy about three women, one of whom may be dating a serial killer dentist, is mixed with creepy and clueless characters that make for suspense and buffoonery. This is the first weekend the Deschutes Theatre Company will be performing the show. Next week’s performances are at Open Space Event Studios in Bend.

Friday 7:30-9:30 p.m., Saturday 2-4 p.m. and 7:30-9:30 p.m.; $25 online, $27 at the door; Hollinshead Barn, 1235 NE Jones Road, Bend; deschutestheatre.com or 541-389-7275.

‘Tuesdays With Morrie’

The Ellipse Theatre Community (ETC) will perform this stage adaptation of Mitch Albom’s memoir — featured in last week’s issue — in Sisters and Redmond this weekend. Founding member and president of ETC Craig Brauner, who lost his grandfather to Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) when he was 10 years old, will portray Albom in this autobiographical story about Albom’s visits with his old professor, Morrie, who was battling ALS.

Saturday 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; $20; Sisters Firehouse, 301 S. Elm St., Sisters; etcbend.org. Sunday 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; $20; High Desert Music Hall, 818 SW Forest Ave., Redmond; etcbend.org or 541-527-1387.

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