Sat, October 12, 2024
Oct 12: AUDITIONS for The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.
Casting 5 men and 5 women
Director: Anna Weidemiller (Masque Award winner)
Asst Director: Tim Novotny ( Masque Award winner)
Performance dates: January 24-Feb 1
Audition packet is at https://thelibertytheatre.org/
About the show:
December, 1940. Elsa Von Grossenknueten, an eccentric theatre financier, has gathered a team at her mansion in Chappaqua, New York. Everyone believes that they will have a backer’s audition for Elsa in order to get financing for the newest musical by Roger Hopewell and Bernice Roth, directed by Ken De La Maize, and produced by Marjorie Baverstock. However, the shadow of the team’s last show hangs over the group–deemed a flop, Manhattan Holiday was ravaged by the “Stage Door Slasher,” a mysterious killer who stabbed chorus girls. The undercover police officer Michael Kelly is hoping to flush out the killer from this group of suspects–but the killer has other plans. More than that, the threat of Nazi saboteurs lurks among them. Throw in blizzard conditions, secret passageways, and some musical snippets to create an Agatha-Christie-meets-Clue formula of whodunnit parody.
Liberty Theatre