an audience-participation murder mystery
Written by: Eileen Moushey

Performed
November 9 – 11, 2023
at
The Arena Bar And Grill

Production Staff

Director/Set Design	Rob Arnold
Stage Manager/Sound and Light Design	Kerry Clancy-Burns
Set Construction	Rob Burns
Production Assistant	J. Lance Wilkinson

About the Show

Everyone’s favorite soap opera, “The Day After Tomorrow” (TDAT), is going “on location” in your town. Cameron Dickinson, the show’s writer/director, is replacing cast members with people from the audience. These amateur actors will join the daytime drama’s stars — including Cameron’s wife, ex-wife, and latest girlfriend. Previously, on TDAT, residents of “Summit Valley” have coped with false pregnancies, alien abductions, arson, cults, and, of course, ghosts. During the rehearsal, they experience a very real drama when one of the stars is murdered.

Previously on The Day After Tomorrow:

CHAGRIN DUPREE is the widow of photographer RICHFIELD DUPREE, who was killed in a helicopter accident while on a photo shoot in Kurdistan. With the insurance money, she opened “The Blue Parrot”- a bistro, which tonight will be the scene of the wedding between, her brother, KENMORE DUPREE and AURORA SPORK. CHAGRIN has other things on her mind besides her brother’s wedding. She is terribly worried about her mother, MEDINA, even though they have been estranged since MEDINA became involved with a new age cult, THE SERVANTS OF MONTROSE. MEDINA has been in the hospital since a skiing accident, first in a coma, then paralyzed, blind, and suffering from amnesia. Just before the accident, MEDINA had a big fight with her son, KENMORE, regarding his plans to marry AURORA. AURORA is carrying his baby, the result of a one-night liaison in the boat house near the DUPREE mansion. KENMORE is doing the honorable thing and marrying AURORA, although she’s not really pregnant – it’s actually a scheme cooked up by AURORA and her brother, PARMA.  KENMORE had been engaged to COPLEY FAIRLAWN but disappeared, and she thought he was dead so she joined the convent.  Fortunately, he wasn’t dead – he’d only been kidnapped by aliens – but when he came back and found COPLEY was now SISTER COPLEY, he got drunk and met up with AURORA in the boat house. MEDINA wanted him to marry COPLEY – she was a FAIRLAWN, after all. The scene begins as it ends in the preceding episode, CHAGRIN and HUDSON are preparing “The Blue Parrot” for the wedding when the phone begins to ring…

This performance is an Interactive Murder Mystery

The Cast

Cameron Dickenson: director	Will Barksdale
Justine Winter, Medina Gazebo	Heidi Cole
Marla Powell, Chagrin Dupree	Abby Fleming*
Holly Benton, Sister Copley Fairlawn	Alpha Gutierrez-Wilkins
Delaney Dodd, Aurora Spork	Joy Robertson*
Baxter Philips, Dr. Kenmore Dupree	Connor Heimerman*
Cherie McClain, Hudson: the bartender	Kim Plummer
Kelly, Ravenna: pianist	Kelly Scott
Mary Kate: Stage Manager	Jillian Sherman
Richard: Sound Tech	Levi Richardson
Stage Crew	EL Richardson
	Victoria “Tori” Gatto*
	Ella Van Velsor

Audience participation characters	Night 1 11/9	Night 2 11/10	Night 3 11/11
Richfield Dupree	Jared Kehler	TBA	TBA
Parma Spork	Brian Henry	TBA	TBA
Dr. Johann Tallmadge	Jason Van Velsor	TBA	TBA
Hans Solon	Tony Moroni	TBA	TBA
Firestone Park-Dupree	Sela Plummer	TBA	TBA
Nurse Beechwood	Kimberly Falk	TBA	TBA