Arsenic and Old Lace 

Performances Nov.13-15, 2024

Auditions August 28 3:30-5:30pm In the auditorium. Grades 7-12. You will choose a monologue from the script. There will be a dance audition and cold reads  August 29 from 3:30-530pm for all students called back.  See Information below. 

Arsenic and Old Lace Is the funniest comedy ever written.  13 actors and 13 dancing dead bodies create a story of family, love, poison, and murder (Note: Most of the roles can be played by actors of any gender).  this will be a classic done the KCAA way!  You don't want to miss It! 

Drama critic Mortimer Brewster’s engagement announcement is upended when he discovers a corpse in his elderly aunts’ window seat. Mortimer rushes to tell Abby and Martha before they stumble upon the body themselves, only to learn that the two old women aren’t just aware of the dead man in their parlor, they killed him! Between his aunts’ penchant for poisoning wine, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother using plastic surgery to hide from the police—not to mention Mortimer’s own hesitancy about marriage—it’ll be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his wedding. Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic black comedy about the only thing more deadly than poison: family.

Arsenic and Old Lace Script  - Arsenic and Old Lace Script