Murder at the Art Show – Saturday, 8/17
By Michael Druce
Youth Production (ages 7-16)
Director: Amber Ryan
Date: Saturday, August 17
Time: 2:30 PM or 3:30 PM
Location: Asante Library 16755 W Vereda Solana Dr., Surprise, AZ
Prepare: Cold readings from the script. Plan on staying for 1 hour.
Production Fee: $200 (if cast)
Rehearsals Begin: August 20 (rehearsals scheduled Tuesday & Thursday 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Performances: October 4 & 5 at the Arts HQ Gallery
Everyone’s an art critic … but who’s serious enough to kill over it?!
Sloane Akers is doing her best to keep afloat the Harriet Anderson Gallery (aka HAG) she inherited from her late Aunt Harriet. Standing in her way is Harriet’s conniving boyfriend, Jacob Smote, who wants to tear down the gallery and replace it with a sports complex.
Desperate to save the gallery, Sloane plans to unveil a previously unseen masterpiece—her friend Maryann Manet’s lost Monet—along with works of some other well-known artists, including abstract painter Paxton Haddock and commercially successful gnome house extraordinaire, Tabitha Cincannon. But Jason hates all that “pretentious mumbo jumbo” and plots to wreck the evening by inviting slimy chauvinist and everybody’s ex-boyfriend, Blake Slocombe, to serve as emcee for Sloane’s make-or-break showing.
By the end of the evening, Murder at the Art Show paints the perfect picture of greed, jealousy, and deception as a priceless Monet goes missing, art is hysterically destroyed, and a murder mystery is unveiled.
Rehearsal Schedule
Cast
Sloan Akers …………………… Owner of the gallery
Ellie Cousins ………………….Sloan’s friend and employee
Jason Smote …………………..Entrepreneur, despises art
Meredith Dish ………………..Jason’s assistant
Maryanne Manet …………….Wealthy art collector
Blake Slocombe ………………Art critic
Tabitha Cincannon ………….Artist of gnome houses
Paxton Haddock ………………Abstract artist
Art Frobisher …………………..Investigator
John Smith …………………….Art gallery visitor
Susie ………………………………Precocious art student
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