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Murder on the Rerun

Directed by
Grace Morrison

Assistant Director - Mary Jo Skiba


Written by Fred Carmichael


Well, we endured a construction project, winter storms that threatened show cancellations, and a gun that not always fired but the show was a success.

What was the show about? Here is what we wrote to introduce our patrons.

Being a dead person doesn't necessarily mean you have no life. Sometimes, when there is an unjust death, some souls cannot rest until the truth behind their murder is revealed.

And that's exactly what happens in Fred Carmichael's comedic murder mystery Murder on the Rerun, which tells the story of a woman named Jane who is determined to solve the mystery behind her own death.

Murder on the Rerun is a satirical look at Hollywood and the ambitious people who reside there.

Set in the 1980s, an eclectic group of people converge at the Vermont ski lodge of Hollywood producer, Stanzio, for the weekend. There are producers, actors and even a gossip columnist, who all have career opportunities in mind. However, Jane is not as shallow and selfish as the rest. She's a more trusting person and a little naïve of the Hollywood culture.

Jane comes to the lodge with her actor husband, Hugh, to bring her newly finished screenplay, The Loves of Laura, for Stanzio to consider producing. But Jane is discovered lying dead at the bottom of the stairs and it's presumed by all that she fell to her death.

In the afterlife, an angel must earn its wings in order to be accepted into heaven and it seems an angel was just what Jane needs to help her figure out who pushed her down the stairs. Kitty is the angel assigned to help Jane figure out who killed her. If Kitty succeeds, she'll finally have entrance into heaven. She's been trying for 200 years to get in; she lived a very colourful life and she hasn't done enough of helping sinners repent, so in order to get admittance into heaven she has to help Jane.

Jane wants to know why she was killed and who did it, because she feels it wasn't her time to go and she can't accept that everyone thinks her death was accidental when she was in fact murdered.

Not only do Kitty and Jane become astral detectives but little by little the two become friends who support one another and together solve the case.


SOME OF THE PRODUCTION TEAM
Front Row - A. Crider, R. Phillips, D. Mullen, A. Baghdasarynan
Center Row - B. Suchey, G. Morrison, L Shultz
Back Row - J. Herbert, J. Meyers, J. Miesen, T. Carlson, M. Skiba

THE CAST
TERRY CARLSON - Kitty
ALBERT CRIDER - Justin Wills
JACKIE HERBERT - Betsy
JULIE MEYERS - Jane Ackerly
JIM MIESEN - Hugh Lawton
DONNA MULLEN - Valerie Vickers
ROSINA PHILLIPS - Edwina Dunbar

PRODUCTION TEAM
Grace Morrison - Set Design
Bill Morrison - Set Construction
Don Cline - Set Construction
Jim Phillips - Set Construction
Terry Carlson - Set Crew
Anne Cline - Set Crew
Jackie Herbert - Set Crew
Sue Maxwell - Set Crew
Grace Morrison - Set Crew
Bobbi Jo Suchey - Set Crew
Anita Harmon - Painted Picture
Anna Baghdasarynan - Lighting and Sound
Jim Phillips - Lighting and Sound

Brad Shriner - Lighting and Sound
Marion Brown - Costumes Director
Bobbi Jo Suchey - Costumes
Lorraine Shultz - Stage Manager & Props
Fran Hamp - Box Office Manager
Bea Diamond - Box Office Helper
Lois Darga - Box Office Helper
Alexandra Hamp - Box Office Helper
Lillian Shriner - Box Office Helper
Mary Jo Skiba - Program and Publicity
Cary Keller - Publicity
Bronwyn Woolman - Photos and Picture Board
Grace Morrison - Outside Sign
Bobbi Jo Suchey - Makeup


PRODUCTION PICTURES


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