Featuring
By: Richard Levinson and William Link
Adapted for stage by: D.D. Brooke
November 9, 10 - 7:00pm
November 11 - 2:00pm, 7:00pm
This is a thrilling "theatrical" mystery in which your theatre becomes the set for the play. The playwright turns on the stage work light and prepares for the first reading of his new play. The actors, producer, director and others connected with the show come onto the stage, and under their humorous (and utterly real) theatrical talk, tension grows. We discover that everyone connected with this play was involved with another play by the same playwright. At its opening night, exactly a year ago and in this same theatre, the beautiful leading lady, who was also the playwright's fiancee, was murdered! As these people start with the new play, startling connections to the murder begin to unfold. The growing tension reaches the boiling point with surprising revelations, countered by others even more surprising. The dazzling, yet basically logical twists build to a climax and solution that are theatrically stunning!
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
With Opening Performances by the Junior High Troupe
From the author of The Jungle Book, comes this fun and fanciful tale about how the Elephant acquired his very long nose. For the Elephant's Child, curiosity leads to a question too many when he asks a crocodile where he gets his dinner. The crocodile bites the baby elephant on the nose, and in the ensuing tug of war, voilà, the elephant gets his trunk.
Humorist James Thurber wrote a timeless short story in which poor Walter Mitty constantly daydreams about being something more than he is. Throughout the story he is a naval pilot, a surgeon, a defendant in a murder trial, and a fighter pilot. In spite of the efforts of his wife and other characters, Walter Mitty remains undeterred in his dreaming of bigger things.
By: Paul Meloon
There are “Dadd jokes” galore in this fast-talking film-noir spoof featuring Detective Hugo Dadd, whose idea of justice is served with a punny dish of corn. When a mysterious case goes missing from the bus station — a suitcase, that is — Dadd is on the case of the missing case, using his arsenal of wordplay and one-liners to ensure his investigation is over the top. It starts when his capricious new client, Dinah Mite, explodes onto the scene in search of the mysterious MacGuffin suitcase, claiming to know nothing of it, other than it was hers to retrieve. Dadd soon comes across a pair of common crooks in Robin Banks and Rex Carrs, who lead the droll detective to believe there’s more to the story than Miss Mite might be telling. And when a couple of coppers — brothers Ben Ding and Stan Ding — start sniffing around, Detective Dadd realizes there’s more to this mysterious case than meets the eye. Who’s telling the truth? Find out in this mile-a-minute comedic homage to The Maltese Falcon.
Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Englewood, Colorado.
