"Mugsy Sent Me," a murder mystery dinner theatre hosted by The Centre at Bluffton will be performed by Mr. E Murder Productions in March, according to Brenda Gaines of The Centre. The Centre is located at 601 N. Main St., Bluffton
The performance is at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 23. Doors open at 6 p.m. Hors 'd-oeuvres are served at 6:30 p.m. To purchase tickets contact The Centre at 419-358-8533. No tickets will be sold at the door on the evening of the performance.
The Centre accepts Visa, Discover and Mastercard.
The dinner theatre menu includes:
• Hors d'oeuvres
• Salad
• Yankee pot roast
• Italian marinated chicken
• New red potatoes
• Stuffed shells with Alfredo sauce
• Corn casserole
• Home-style green beans
• Dessert
• Non-alcoholic beverages.
A cash bar is available.
Mr. E murder Productions is located in New Philadelphia. The troupe performs a dinner theatre annually at The Centre.
Synopsis
It’s the 1920’s all over again and you’re throwing a “themed evening” that becomes a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime, interactive experience for everyone involved, cast and audience alike! From the moment your audience arrives at your front door to that desperate last scream when everyone must leave (and real quick, too), it’s hilarity, thrills and chills!
“Mugsy Sent Me!” works like this: your guests (audience) arrive at your front door and are surreptitiously given a very secret password. Unless your guests (audience) utter that secret password when asked, they simply won’t get past the black-hat-wearing goons guarding the doors! You see it’s all very hush-hush! Once inside, your guests will suddenly find themselves overhearing whispered conversations and witnessing clandestine meetings between reputed mobsters (it is the 1920’s after all!). Everyone’s trying to conduct illicit business while trying even harder to stay out of jail (your audience included!). See nothing, hear nothing, tell nothing!
In “Mugsy Sent Me!” cast and audience intermingle, laugh and chat with one another, all the time re-living and enjoying the life and times of a great era in American history when flappers were the latest rage and keeping everything under raps was the order of the day.
“Mugsy Sent Me!” offers everyone in your theatre troupe an opportunity to try his or her hand at delighting an audience with a most unique interactive experience from start-to-finish. Suggestions for a “Dinner Theatre” presentation are included in the script.
Some of your performers serve as waiters and waitresses, others as local thugs, still others as the rather hoity-toity hoi polloi, so often found loitering ‘til all hours in the dimly-lit speakeasies down along the docks! And one or two of your members will have to be a flatfoot (somebody’s got to do it!). Add tap dancers, singers, and/or accordion players for a fabulous floor show! At times, the lights go out! Gunshots are heard! And when it’s all over, everyone will clamor, “When can we do this again?” Bare stage with pieces.
