J & J Productions, Inc.

Comedy Murder Mystery

The show will be 75 minutes in length: it shall interactively involve: 5-7 audience members as suspects and all other audience members as detectives engaged in solving the mystery. It shall have a predominately comic theme and center around current topical humor. An audience member or two solving the mystery correctly will receive a complimentary gift. It will also provide the opportunity for you to include unique inside information regarding members or guests to be used in the show (subject to supplying the information before the performance).

Show synopsis:

If Not Youdunnit, Whodunit?

Rhett, the butler, enters and explains the proceedings for the mystery. He is joined by Yvette, the upstairs maid, who serves as co-facilitator. A member of the audience is chosen as referee and draws 4 cards from 20 clue cards and seals them in an envelope. One card is for the victim, one for the weapon, one for the motive, and one for the murderer. The mystery is then played out in front of the audience (the detectives) with the murder-taking place at the end of act 1. A ten-minute intermission is given or the serving of dinner takes place while alibis are handed out to the suspects. Act 2 continues with the hearing of the suspect’s alibis, then Q & A of all the suspects by the detectives and finally the voting where the detectives fill out solution forms. The referee collects them, sorts them, and all correct forms are placed in a container and the winning detective is drawn. The detective comes forward and solves the crime, opens the envelope and receives the prize.

Comedy Murder Mystery Characters

Rhett-the Butler - (stuffy subservient who really hates his job and his employers).

Yvette the upstairs maid - (typical French maid type looking to advance her position via the bedroom).

Scarlet O-bigHarra - lady of the house, clueless to all things of life except when the next social affair is.

Lute Gettingrich - (master of the house); politician, wouldn’t recognize the truth if it walked up and bit him.

Major General Colon Foul - (military type, retired, crusty ultra-right winger).

Nurse Camille - (sadistic medical worker; irritable and without compassion).

Michael Cannelloni - (Mafia typed; here on a little “family business”).

Donna Chump - (entrepreneur, big name in Charlotte real estate development).

And Martha Stewart - (as herself)

About the Group:

Stageworks Theatre is an interactive, improvisational theatre company offering educational, family oriented performance, which both entertains and instructs. They also provide teaching and performing projects to schools through After School Enrichment Programs. They offer performance products to adult groups and corporate clients. These take the form of Mystery Shows, Improvisational Performances, and Role Playing and Simulation. They are beginning their fifth year of operation. The theatre presents over 300 performances and 30 teaching residencies per year in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. Managing Director is Mrs. Laura Courter. Artistic Director is Mr. Mike Stair.

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