Summer Stock Murder

Componist: Kingsley Day
Schrijver: Kingsley Day

This riotous musical mystery’s three acts span three weeks at the Sagautasac Playhouse, a typical summer stock theatre. The company rehearses and presents a new musical in each act-a Friml-esque operetta, a Cole Porter-ish potpourri and a musical drama a la Sondheim. With the pressure on and temperaments soaring, a string of bizarre murders begins taking place. Accompanying this high drama of the hilarious sort is the low comedy of visiting stars and sex-crazed apprentices as crisis after crisis threatens each curtain. In a stroke of comic inspiration, one woman plays each of the visiting guest stars who arrive in each act-an ex-diva cum game show panelist, a B-movie sexpot, and a boozing broad from Broadway- making it a tour de force for a lucky singing actress. If the time has come to give your audience one they haven’t seen, this is it!

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Instrumentatie: Summer Stock Murder - Orchestration Package (9 Books)
  • 1 – KEYBOARD (Piano Vocal Score - Piano, Fender Rhodes)
  • 1 – REED I (Flute, Alto Sax)
  • 1 – REED II (Oboe, Clarinet, Tenor Sax)
  • 1 – REED III (Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Baritone Sax)
  • 1 – TRUMPET
  • 1 – FRENCH HORN
  • 1 – TROMBONE
  • 1 – PERCUSSION (Traps, Vibraphone)
  • 1 – BASS ( Electric, Acoustic)
PRINCIPALS
5 Women (1 Woman plays 3 Roles)
6 Men

CHARACTERS:
Julieann Barrington - sexy, bitchy leading lady, nearing 30.
Toby Patterson - genial, easygoing, leading man, older than most of the kids.
Otto French - tyrannical, overbearing, and middle-aged director/producer/owner of the playhouse.
Maggie Burke - young, innocent, and naïve intern.
Constance D'Archet - aging, embittered character actress.
Mason Hamlin - Sagaustac's erudite, eccentric and emotionless musical director.
Michael Hachmeister - flamboyant, aggressive, and gay, an actor in the company.
Christopher Vlasky - sexually confused young male lead.
Dalton Brooks - perpetually out of left field member of the company.
Vilma French - Otto's mousy, beaten-down wife, costumer and everything else for the playhouse.
The Three Visiting Stars (played by the same actress):
Doris Delaney - an over-the-hill soprano.
Cindi Summers - a blonde sexpot B movie star of many years ago.
Mara Moorehead - a brassy, boozing Broadway star.