Last night I went to the show Mysteriously Yours with the AFACT group. That's a dinner theatre place that puts on mystery shows. (We only came for the show, skipping the dinner.) Their mystery took a spoofy approach, set in Upton Mansion (like Downton Abbey, geddit?), with the detective parodying Columbo.
The show had six actors, with one actor playing a daughter in drag until she got killed and he came back as the detective. Instead of being on a stage, they came out among the audience. Some people who were their for their birthday or wedding anniversary got introduced as cameo characters! At the end audience members got to guess who'd done it and why, but I didn't try.
I paid thirty-five dollars to see the show, and at that price it seemed thin. (Don heard the food was overpriced too: it's basically for tourists.) But it got us thinking about the approach we want to take with our show.
The night before I sent a message to the group's other members with a link to a Youtube clip of a Carol Burnett Show episode with an Ed & Eunice skit where Eunice was rehearsing a play with Madeline Kahn. (Mama: "I used to like Ingrid Bergman till she ran off with that foreigner!")
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