Show The Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940 7 is a a- a basic done it who it Susan Sotomayor Arts Editor T was a dark stormy winter IT Iday day in December of 1940 in Chappaqua NY The library was warm and cozy compared to the freez below ing weather outside Hot was coffee sitting on the desktop soft music playing in the background both background both waiting for someone to come in and take advantage of them The Musical Comedy Murders 0 Of f 1940 just as the title suggests suggests suggests sug sug- is basic who-done- who your it comedy play of musical murders Beginning in mid after noon guests slowly start to arrive and eventually all are present The guests have been gathered for the rehearsal of a musical by the famous director director director tor Ken De La Maize who has made several films that have yet to be released played by Rodney Johnston Unknown to guests this meeting has been set up by police in order to capture the killer who has been striking each of De La I Maizes Maize's more recent The story opens with a candlestick killing of the maid and the finding of a day planner belonging to one of the killers killer's more recent vic vic- vic vic- tims The butler did it Right Except there is no butler and the maid is already dead so that rules her but out r Soon after the performers start arriving and begin getting getting getting get get- ting acquainted another murder occurs and someone else turns up missing later to tobe tobe tobe be labeled as the possible killer but in order to find out who you'll have to see the play yourself Sue Jarrard portrays the therole therole therole role of Bernice Roth an incorrigible incorrigible incorrigible in in- corrigible drunk who is hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly seen without bottle in hand When she isn't busy drinking she's busy passing out due to the reappearance of dead bodies that were once dead but are no longer Her performance alone had the audience in an uproar The first act of the play starts a little slowly however by the second act it will have you laughing your socks off This play is a sitcom in itself and if yo yop you feel the need to laugh I highly recommend The Musical Comedy Murders 0 Of f 1940 |