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Season Update for the Phoenix Stage Company
The thriller 'Accomplice' has been replaced with the comedy 'Murdered to Death'
Ed Bassett, one of the partners in , sent an e-mail to update me on a change in their season. After receiving input from their audiences, and in response to the box office performance of some previous shows, they have decided to pull Accomplice from our 2012 line up. He writes:
"As theater folk, we want so badly to produce the kind of shows that we would want to play in, or be a part of; but the reality is that without an audience, we wouldn’t have the place to play at all – so we’re giving them what they want … for now."
In place of Accomplice, Phoenix Stage Company will be producing Murdered to Death by Peter Gordon.
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This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight—Bunting, the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling local inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes—they're all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will readers and audiences die laughing first?
Cast of Characters
Mildred: The lady of the manor, in her 50’s
Dorothy: Companion and Housekeeper to Mildred. In her 20’s
Bunting: The Butler
Colonel Charles Craddock: In his 60’s, he has a blustering manner
Margaret: The Colonels somewhat younger wife.
Pierre Marceau: A French art dealer with an exaggerated accent.
Elizabeth Hartley-Trumpington: Very high society, in her 20’s or 30’s
Joan Maple: In her 50’s or 60’s. Knowledgeable about crime scenes.
Inspector Pratt: An inept, posing and clumsy walking disaster area.
Constable Thompkins: A typical young village policeman.
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Auditions will be held at the theatre on Monday, June 25 and Tuesday, June 26, 2012 from 7-9 p.m.
Performance dates are September 8 through September 22.
This sounds like a great little show to me. A spoof will definitely attract the many patrons who enjoy comedies.
They will be updating their website etc. soon.
