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    An Audition For A Murder: Play Dead Murder Mystery Plays
    An Audition For A Murder: Play Dead Murder Mystery Plays
    An Audition For A Murder: Play Dead Murder Mystery Plays
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    An Audition For A Murder: Play Dead Murder Mystery Plays

    By Lee Mueller

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    A Theatre group is holding auditions for a Murder Mystery called "Death of A Disco Dancer". All of the typical actors show up to audition. There is Mia Monahan - the militant method actress, Amber Frost- the ditzy Drama queen, Chad - the energetic actor who never seems to get a part in anything, Alan- the accomplished Theatre Major who works at a fast-food place in the meantime. Troy May - the ego-centric actor who always gets a role and his gorgeous assistant Tantanya who holds his imported bottled water and carries his Portfolio. And last but not least, Mrs. Needleman and her precious daughter Julie, fresh from the Little Miss Pumpkin Pageant finals.

    The auditions get underway without too many problems, well a few.. Well, all right, you see, the thing is.. the Director Vivian Vinderlou and assistant director Reed Moore have a bit of the problem with "script". The problem is they don't have enough copies for everyone. And the bigger problem is they don't actually have a finished script.

    Jim Culter- the playwright arrives in the nick of time with a few more copies and a few more finished pages just as one of the actors mysteriously dies. As luck would have it, Jim has brought Inspector Bonnie Brauvera along to the auditions to serve as Technical advisor for the play. Perhaps the investigation into this "mysterious death" will inspire the playwright and help him finish the play. After all, there is a read-through on Monday.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLee Mueller
    Release dateJun 1, 2020
    ISBN9781393092186
    An Audition For A Murder: Play Dead Murder Mystery Plays
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    Lee Mueller

    Lee Mueller was born in St. Louis, Missouri. For over thirty years he has been involved in the performing arts, from acting, directing, improv/sketch comedy, and most notably as a playwright. His first one-act play, "In Between Days" was produced during a national writers conference. His second one-act, "The Favor" was a finalist in a short play competition in St. Louis. He has specialized in comedy murder mystery plays that have been produced all over the world. His play "Death Of A Doornail" won "Best Original Comedy" at the 27th Annual "Arty Awards" in Fairfield California. "Murder Me Always" ran for a month at the Laugh Factory in New York. Lee also hosts a Podcast on creativity called "And So The Mind Reels" and has published a collection of short stories called "Idle Essence: Tales Of Marvin".

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      Book preview

      An Audition For A Murder - Lee Mueller

      An Audition For A Murder

      AN AUDITION FOR A MURDER

      A COMEDY MURDER MYSTERY PLAY

      2

      LEE MUELLER

      Playedwell Publishing

      Copyright © 2005 by Lee Mueller

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Characters

      Prologue

      Act One

      Act Two

      Production Notes

      INTRODUCTION

      An Audition For A Murder was partly based on a suggestion by an actor friend who mentioned that I should write a mystery about a playwright who is scrambling to complete a play. A play that already has a cast and was well into rehearsals. You see, I developed the habit of waiting until the last minute to finish a script until I saw the actors that the director had cast and how they were approaching the roles – only then did I get a good idea about how the play should end. In some cases, I did not have a firm conclusion on WHO the murderer would be, until I saw all the actors at the audition. A friend suggested that I could get a bit artsy, a little meta, and write a mystery play about writing a mystery play. Wait, what? Why not? I moved the setting to the auditions for a murder mystery. I had a few true stories about auditions from my days as an actor and a director that needed a place to land beside my social banter. I had fun weaving the idea ad stories into a play. I could add that the character of the playwright may or may not be (loosely) based on myself.

      Note: Originally, the play was titled "All Over But The Shooting - but I received a request one day from drama teacher at school district who wanted to perform the play but the title was an issue: using the word Shooting" at a school raised a few eyebrows and a few unpleasant associations . I understood, the title of the play was changed to what it is now. Also, I couldn’t wait to see an audition notice for this play to go up and read; An audition for An Audition for a Murder.

      CHARACTERS

      Characters

      REED MOORE – assistant Director. More or less holds everything together.

      VIVIAN VINDERLOU- Director of the play. Slightly flamboyant in an artistic nature. .

      AMBER- Auditioning actress. Proverbial drama queen.

      MIA- Auditioning actress. Intellectual /militant that questions everything. Wears a Che Guerva T-shirt and and combat boots.

      CHAD- Auditioning actor. Can’t project above a whisper. Willing to work props or build sets if he doesn’t get cast.

      TROY MAY- Auditioning Actor. Attractive male. Is a legend in his own mind.

      TATANYA- Troy’s significant female friend.

      ALAN- Auditioning Male. Quiet subdued intelligent guy.

      JULIE- Auditioning actress. Project of her Stage Mother.

      MRS. NEEDLEMAN- Julie’s mother.

      JIM- Playwright. Slightly scatterbrained due to his always listening for dialogue or ideas.

      INSPECTOR BRAVURA- Female detective. Came to the auditions at the invitation of the playwright to serve as a technical adviser.

      PROLOGUE

      "A n Audition for Murder by Lee Mueller, Directed by Jim Meady, was produced by Affton CenterStage Theatre Company in St. Louis, Mo. It ran under the title All Over But The Shooting " and opened on March 09th 2005 with the following cast:

      REED MOORE – John Kiske

      VIVIAN VINDERLOU – Karen Diehl

      AMBER FROST – Laura Wettingfeld

      CHAD – Steve Karasek

      MIA MONAHAN – Liz Landeau

      ALAN – Steve Nealon

      MRS. NEEDLEMAN – Nicki Ketterling

      JULIE – Erin Marie Hogan

      TROY MAY  - Jack Ables

      TATANYA – Amy Rocchio

      JIM CULTER – Bob Baker

      INSPECTOR BRAVURA – Jennifer Mowery

      ACT ONE

      Asparse set. Whatever the place you held auditions for this show is what the set area should look like. Perhaps the back of some flats lying around. Odd furniture, etc.. Only the readings should be done on the stage area. Most of the action is outside

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