SOMETHING'S AFOOT: a musical murder mystery!
The book, music, and lyrics written by James McDonald, David Vos, and Robert Gerlach, with additional music by Ed Linderman

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SOMETHING'S AFOOT is a 1935 murder mystery musical that spoofs all-things-detective, mainly the works of Agatha Christie.  The play involves a group of people who are invited to the lake estate of Lord Dudley Rancour. When the wealthy lord is found dead, it is a race against the clock to find who-dunnit.  It is worth noting that the butler is the first suspect to die, prompting a song expressing shock at the fact that "the butler didn't do it.” 

Throughout the course of the play, characters are killed off by complex and comical booby traps, each a part of a tangled web of deception. Characters meet their ends via a breakaway staircase railing, a plummeting chandelier, a poisonous blow dart, a display of African spears that has a mind of its own, faulty telephone wiring and a human-sized urn.  Tweed, as the self-anointed detective, quickly takes charge of the situation and accuses many of committing the crimes, changing her mind quickly when new evidence arises. 

PERFORMANCES:

November 19th-21st at 8pm

November 21st & 22nd at 2pm

At the Peterborough Players

55 Hadley Road, Peterborough NH

The CAST (in order of appearance):

Lettie (the maid) ................................................................... Nell Conkright

Flint (the caretaker) ............................................................. Scott Gardner

Clive (the butler) ................................................................... Mel Bucklin

Hope Langdon (the ingenue) ............................................. Jenna Fraser

Dr. Grayburn (the doctor) .................................................... Tom Luebbermann

Nigel Rancour (the nephew) ............................................... John Haley

Lady Grace Manley-Prowde ............................................... Marilyn Simons

Colonel Gillweather  ............................................................. Rob Koch

Miss Tweed (the amateur detective) .................................. Wendy Almeida

Geoffrey (the Uninvited Guest) ............................................ David Corliss

Orchestra:

Jim Sharrock........................................................................ Oboe, Sax

Chris Sharrock..................................................................... Bass Guitar

Jo-Ann Gerde....................................................................... Drums

Millie Vigneault..................................................................... Keyboard

Crew:

Producer................................................................................ Mariah Sefel

Director.................................................................................. Lynda Loll

Musical Director.................................................................... Phil Lauriat

Stage Managers................................................................... Beth Alpaugh-Cote

                                                                                                 Ray Cote

Choreographer..................................................................... Diane Gould

Pianist.................................................................................... Millie Vigneault

Technical Director................................................................. Rob Koch

Set Design............................................................................. Rob Koch

Lighting................................................................................... Ivan Park

Sound..................................................................................... Ivan Park

Costumes.............................................................................. Susan Shanoff

Properties.............................................................................. Hope Taylor