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18a Smoothly sonorous dance music in location with turntable, and 20a Theatre character in shape. I think the answers are roundhouse and repair, but would appreciate help with parsing?

smoothly sonorous gives ROUND and HOUSE is a type of dance music. I don't see the definition though - isn't it a concert venue in north London somewehere?
REP(etory) is theatre, AIR is loosely "character".

Was there a railway turntable there once?

Roundhouse is an American word for an engine-house with a turntable.

Thanks, ChrisE, I understood Rep for theatre but hadn't thought of air as character.

Thanks Loge. I didn't know this meaning.

I concur with all the above (or it may be below) but I need to know whether 24A starts with 'name' or 'face' - I cant choose,

Gerba, I've got Face, because a wastrel could never ???? ??????

PS It's always best to give the clues - then those without a copy can help/try to help.

Theatre character in shape (6)
as discussed above.

This was my last one in (LOI, I have learned here).
I thought of REPAIR but couldn't see the definition so didn't get as far as REP and AIR. Lazily cheating by looking up -E-A-R, I was surprised to discover that only REPAIR fits. I suppose it can mean 'shape'.

I got stuck on ROUNDHOUSE because I had R-U-D-A-S-, for which, cheating again, I found nothing fitted. Checking crossers I realised I had relied too much on the Hippopotamus song (Mud...mud) by Flanders and Swan, the inamorata adjusting her garter, so had the wrong gender for 'lover'. Of course it had to end in o for 'round'.