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February 13, 14, 15, 20, 21,
20, 1997
Plank Road School |
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The creative
team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls
were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a
backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a
wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret
passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different
people—all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which
follows when the infamous "Slasher" makes his reappearance and strikes
again—and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare
their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies
start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked
figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing
fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the
bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery
is solved in the nick of time and the "Slasher" unmasked—but not before
the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a
generous serving of the author's biting, satiric and refreshingly
irreverent wit.
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