DYING TO WIN

                        A Seven Corpse Dinner Murder Mystery

performed by

The Champaign Urbana Theatre Company

Performances:

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Sunday, March 2, 2008

(Reservations required and payment due by Wednesday preceding performance)

$39.00 per person includes buffet dinner and murder mystery

Time & Place

6:00 p.m. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres

6:45 p.m. Dinner

Cash Bar

Evening ends approx. 9:00 p.m.                                     

Round Barn Banquet Centre

1900 Round Barn Rd., Champaign

(one block west of Mattis and Springfield; behind Famous Dave's, south of Original Pancake House)

 For more information – e-mail CUTCMysteries@gmail.com

Or call 217-355-3636 – ask to leave a message on the murder mystery voicemail

To print an order form, click here. 

DYING TO WIN:  Plot Synopsis

It’s election night in Soy Bean City!   The mayor’s race has been long, hard, and ugly, and the polls are undecided.   If things weren’t bad enough, the two rival candidates are accidentally booked into the same banquet room for their election night party! And what is the primary issue in this election?  Funding for schools? No.  Taxes? No.  Improvements to streets? Nope.  The major issue is . . . A fight over the ducks in the city duck pond. 

The Republicrat candidate wants to pave over the city duck pond for a shopping mall and land-based casino with a 500 ft. tall glass tower. That means the ducks (and the ugly mess they leave behind) have to go.  The Democricans want to preserve the duck pond for families and children to enjoy, as they have for decades.

Voters are outraged.  A pro-duck activist has been holding demonstrations and communing with the ducks.  Anti-duck groups are using scare tactics of duck-borne diseases and stories of deranged duck attacks.  There is no middle ground.

The Anti-Socialist party candidate is the only one who seems to have it right. He talks about what the city REALLY needs, and ignores the ducks.   But as “Vladimir” (his internet handle) does all of his campaigning on Facebook and LiveJournal, few voters over the age of 30 even know about him. 

Political maneuvering.  Skeletons in the closet. Undisclosed relationships.  Someone is certain to end up, well . . . a dead duck.

What happens at these murder mystery things?  Our Seven Corpse Dinner Murder Mysteries are totally interactive.  This is not a play we are performing for you, but rather a game we are playing with you.  Our actors will mix with the guests, answering questions, having arguments, making and breaking business deals and love affairs, and whatever else is the essence of the evening.  After dinner, an actor “dies.”  An investigator character will take over and ask for accusations.  Then, the guests interrogate the suspects, and vote for who they think the murderer is.  A ballot pulled from the correct guesses gets a pair of tickets to a Champaign Urbana Theatre Company show at the Virginia Theatre!

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