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    Posted: 7/06/09 at 4:42pm
Hey,
 
I'm looking for a good murder mystery to direct at the high school level.  I've been through a bunch of scripts, and nothing seems just right.
 
Ideally, I would like the script to contain the following elements:
 
murder mystery
comedy
cast of 15 to 20
full length
2/3 to 3/4 female characters
audience interaction/improvisation
 
If need be, the audience interaction/improvisation element can be removed.
 
If anyone has any suggestions, I've love to hear them.
 
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bullet Posted: 7/06/09 at 5:44pm
wow, good luck on those elements. Most I've seen are about 50/50 possibly leaning more toward males and maybe a total of 10 or so.
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bullet Posted: 7/06/09 at 6:05pm
Don't know what you've looked at but here are two:  Occupation Murder (audience participation) and Bonechiller  (audience can guess along with the people on the stage about a rebus).
 
 
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bullet Posted: 7/06/09 at 6:07pm
Murder Most Fowl--cooking competition in a high school setting with a murder.
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bullet Posted: 7/06/09 at 6:14pm
I have some one-acts that might serve your needs.
 
Employees Must Wash Hands... Before Murder
 
cast of 14-19 (66% female) read it online here:
 
 
The Murderous Mansion of Mr. Uno
 
cast of 11, audience participation, multiple endings (basically the movie Clue as written by Christopher Durang)
 
Read it here:
 
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bullet Posted: 7/06/09 at 6:25pm
Thanks for the suggestions so far.  I have read a few of those and will look into the others.
 
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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bullet Posted: 7/07/09 at 11:41am
My new murder mystery, The Man in Seat 24 or (The Uninvited Guest), has a cast of 15- 8 females and 7 males- and is published by Brooklyn Publishers.
     Synopsis: An irate, rude, and combative theatre patron (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up stone cold dead at center stage. The Man in Seat 24 Or (The Uninvited Guest) is a murder mystery, a play-within-a-play, where a harried and frazzled theatre director investigates a murder--during a night of theatre gone wrong--and realizes that there is more to this evening’s performance than meets the eye.
Note: There is an optional audience participation section in Act 2 and five imbedded actors in the actual audience.
Good luck in your search,
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bullet Posted: 7/07/09 at 3:35pm
I don't know of a specific script that meets all your specs, but I have directed a fun audience participation murder mystery (The Ghost of Jeb Taylor) by Eileen Moushey
and her website has quite a few different ones, so you might find one that suits your needs. Good luck!
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bullet Posted: 7/08/09 at 1:06pm
Thanks for all the suggestions.  If there are any that don't have audience interaction but meet the other criteria, I'd love to hear about those.
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bullet Posted: 7/19/09 at 12:59pm
When I was in high school, we did this show called Rehearsal for Murder and set it up as a dinner theater sort-of thing.  It's about a Broadway director whose girlfriend committed suicide, or so the police concluded.  He assembles a cast to stage read a new play--but the play is full of these accusatory scenes pinning the murder on each of them.  It has some fun twists, and, while there's no audience participation per se, it can be interactive.  One character (who's eventually revealed as the killer) stands at the back of the audience for a while, there's a blackout at one point, and one character fires a gun at another as he's running through the audience.  To my recollection, there are about 15 in the cast, probably roughly even male and female, with maybe about half of those good, meaty roles. 
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