CAST: 4M, 6F, extras
SET: Interior art gallery set
TIME: About 50 minutes
Script:
$8.25 each Director’s book: $25.00 each
ROYALTY:
$55 First Performance
$55 Each Additional Performance
SET: Interior art gallery set
TIME: About 50 minutes
Script:
$8.25 each Director’s book: $25.00 each
ROYALTY:
$55 First Performance
$55 Each Additional Performance
Everyone’s an art critic... but who’s serious enough to kill over it?! In this comedy murder mystery especially ideal as a fundraiser for an art show — either as dinner theatre or as a traditional production — we hope to find out!
Sloane Akers is doing her best to keep afloat the Harriet Anderson Gallery (aka HAG) she inherited from her late Aunt Harriet. Standing in her way is Harriet’s conniving boyfriend, Jacob Smote, who wants to tear down the gallery and replace it with a sports complex.
Desperate to save the gallery, Sloane plans to unveil a previously unseen masterpiece — her friend Maryann Manet’s lost Monet — along with works of some other well-known artists, including abstract painter Paxton Haddock and commercially successful gnome house extraordinaire, Tabitha Cincannon. But Jason hates all that “pretentious mumbo jumbo” and plots to wreck the evening by inviting slimy chauvinist and everybody’s ex-boyfriend, Blake Slocombe, to serve as emcee for Sloane’s make-or-break showing.
By the end of the evening, Murder at the Art Show paints the perfect picture of greed, jealousy, and deception as a priceless Monet goes missing, art is hysterically destroyed, and a murder mystery is unveiled.
Sloane Akers is doing her best to keep afloat the Harriet Anderson Gallery (aka HAG) she inherited from her late Aunt Harriet. Standing in her way is Harriet’s conniving boyfriend, Jacob Smote, who wants to tear down the gallery and replace it with a sports complex.
Desperate to save the gallery, Sloane plans to unveil a previously unseen masterpiece — her friend Maryann Manet’s lost Monet — along with works of some other well-known artists, including abstract painter Paxton Haddock and commercially successful gnome house extraordinaire, Tabitha Cincannon. But Jason hates all that “pretentious mumbo jumbo” and plots to wreck the evening by inviting slimy chauvinist and everybody’s ex-boyfriend, Blake Slocombe, to serve as emcee for Sloane’s make-or-break showing.
By the end of the evening, Murder at the Art Show paints the perfect picture of greed, jealousy, and deception as a priceless Monet goes missing, art is hysterically destroyed, and a murder mystery is unveiled.
Additional products available:
Director’s book: $25.00 each
Director’s book: $25.00 each
Murder at the Art Show
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LAURA GARONE
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY
SAMANTHA COLE
WASHAGO, ON CANADA
WASHAGO, ON CANADA
GOSNELL SCHOOL DISTRICT #6
GOSNELL, AR
GOSNELL, AR
SARAH YEAGLE
FARMER CITY, IL
FARMER CITY, IL
HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
KENNEWICK, WA
KENNEWICK, WA
MEG DONEGAN
CALEDONIA, NY
CALEDONIA, NY
AMBER CEPKAUSKAS
PEORIA, AZ
PEORIA, AZ
CLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST
CLINTON, MS
CLINTON, MS
ETON SCHOOL FOUNDATION
BELLEVUE, WA
BELLEVUE, WA
LASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL
LASHBURN, SK CANADA
LASHBURN, SK CANADA
WILLOW LAKE SCHOOL DIST #12-3
WILLOW LAKE, SD
WILLOW LAKE, SD
MIDWAY ISD
WOODWAY, TX
WOODWAY, TX
STEVENS POINT AREA SENIOR HIGH
STEVENS POINT, WI
STEVENS POINT, WI
WESTFIELD AREA HIGH SCHOOL
WESTFIELD, WI
WESTFIELD, WI
CHARLES TRAUTWEIN
GRANTSVILLE, MD
GRANTSVILLE, MD
BLACK HILLS SPEC SVC CO-OP
STURGIS, SD
STURGIS, SD
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