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Directed by Assistant Director - Mary Jo Skiba
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.
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Front Row - A. Crider, R. Phillips, D. Mullen, A. Baghdasarynan |
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Center Row - B. Suchey, G. Morrison, L Shultz |
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Back Row - J. Herbert, J. Meyers, J. Miesen, T. Carlson, M. Skiba |
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ALBERT CRIDER - Justin Wills JACKIE HERBERT - Betsy JULIE MEYERS - Jane Ackerly JIM MIESEN - Hugh Lawton DONNA MULLEN - Valerie Vickers ROSINA PHILLIPS - Edwina Dunbar |
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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 |
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