Calling All Actors! Casting Call for Murder Mystery Actors
Join us for casting call tryouts as we search for volunteer actors to play the main characters in an interactive, themed murder mystery dinner event. These type of events offer lots of freedom for actors to improvise, interact with the audience, and truely become the character they are portraying. Are you up for a new challenge?
The event is a fundraiser for KYP and performance date is tentatively scheduled in March.
CASTING CALL TRYOUTS
Date: January 11, 2023
Time: 5-7 p.m.
Location: Lakeshore Center, Community Room 123
600 E Lakeshore Drive, Houghton, MI
The Characters (or Suspects)
Harold Logan: The owner of the Pineapple Haven Hotel (it was part of his divorce settlement). His marriage to Stella Capwell was a big mistake but she was filthy rich.
Bambi Bianca: Harold’s girlfriend, or as she says, fiancée. An ex-con turned mud wrestler. She’ll use anybody and everybody if it works to her advantage.
Stella Capwell: Harold's miserable & mean ex-wife from NY. She now realizes she was a bit too generous in giving this hotel to Harold.
Mrs. Abigail Wiggins: She claims to be an author, psychic and expert on island voodoo. Typically found wearing a muumuu, bright colors, and a scarf around her head.
Donny Wo: A lounge singer. Harold hired him to sing at the event.
Thomas Q. Magnus: A private eye. He and Abigail are chums and he’s here at her request because of her premonitions.
Rebel Hanukkaiiaihani: He’s Harold's business partner. When Harold makes money, Rebel makes money and vice versa.
Ruth Astoria: Stella's daughter from her first marriage. A snotty little witch with a bad attitude. She hates her mother, well, because she’s her over-bearing mother. She also has a love/hate relationship with Harold. Described as modern, hip and sexy.
Sadie Summer: Abigail’s new very enthusiastic assistant who is in “psychic” training.
Chyna Doll: Rebel’s girlfriend. She, like Bambi, is a champion mud wrestler who will challenge anyone who rubs her the wrong way to a wrestling match.
Robert: Stella’s driver and generally abused go-fer. Robert’s in love with her, being the masochist that he is, so he does her bidding immediately and without question.
Mack and Matilda Titmouse: They won a free vacation to the Pineapple Haven hotel all the way from the U.P.! They’re working class types who look like the tourists. They have never traveled far from their small home town in Michigan and are beside themselves with exuberant touristy joy.