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peacock
Star Joined: 3/03/09 Location: Bangladesh Online Status: Offline Posts: 58 |
Topic: Need a funny murder mystery Posted: 3/08/10 at 9:48pm |
I am looking for a murder mystery, preferably a comedy. I do NOT want one with audience interaction. Considered Arsenic and Old Lace, but I teach at an international school, and it is too Americana. There are thousands out there, and I cannot afford to order and read all of them. Many are really lame. So, please, let me know if you produced one that was actually well-written and funny.
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pdavis69
Celebrity Joined: 3/26/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 437 |
Posted: 3/09/10 at 8:27am |
Try Something's Afoot. Murder Mystery/Musical and FX delight.
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tristanrobin
Celebrity Joined: 4/25/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 704 |
Posted: 3/09/10 at 1:04pm |
Moose Murders- renowned for being one of the worst - and shortest-lived - Broadway plays ever - and absolutely hysterical - so bad, it's fab!
Edited by tristanrobin - 3/09/10 at 1:05pm |
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edh915
Celebrity Joined: 11/19/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 325 |
Posted: 3/09/10 at 2:26pm |
What a coincidence! Just reading "Murdered to Death" by Peter Gordon. It's a spoof of Miss Marple mysteries. (She shows up in this as Miss Maple.) I've only read the first few pages, but it looks very promising.
Description from the script cover: This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie
traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an
assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight –Bunting the butler;
an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady
French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling police inspector and a
well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes
– they're all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics
which follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomes
clear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murderer be
unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will audiences die
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Lazy Bee
Star Joined: 2/21/07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 89 |
Posted: 3/12/10 at 12:46pm |
Try the following (the links lead to synopses from which you can read the full scripts on-line by clicking on the titles)
Full length comedy murder mysteries (from which I particularly like the first on the list) One-act comedy murder mysteries (which I can't recommend too highly, since I've written three of them) |
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edh915
Celebrity Joined: 11/19/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 325 |
Posted: 3/16/10 at 1:53pm |
Have now finished "Murdered To Death" and I can say that I highly recommend it. It needs to be played very "British stiff upper lip" with outrageous things being said with straight faces. It's very funny. Miss Maple, Inspector Pratt, Constable Tompkins, and a rogue's gallery of suspects and victims.
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jmausser
Walk-On Joined: 1/16/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 3/23/10 at 2:07pm |
I directed "Done to Death" by Fred Carmichael a few years ago. It is a hilarious spoof of all sorts of common murder mystery "gadgets". Highly recommended.
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peacock
Star Joined: 3/03/09 Location: Bangladesh Online Status: Offline Posts: 58 |
Posted: 3/24/10 at 2:39pm |
I am now taking a little different tack. Anyone ever try Get Smart? Love feedback on that.< id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" ="">
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PSdotcom
Player Joined: 3/04/10 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 15 |
Posted: 3/28/10 at 8:24pm |
For a really good murder mystery, you could take a look at these:-
The Cook Did It! by Michael Starr Murder by E-mail by Reg Mitchell Who Killed the Hotel Manager by Chris Martin Who Killed the Headmaster by Chris Martin |
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