Married to the mob

[jethrien]

Chuckro and I are appearing in a murder mystery play that our local theater company is putting on as a fundraiser for a church. (In return, one of the church ladies bakes cakes for the theater to sell at intermission.) I'm playing the scheming widow of the deceased - and Chuckro is my step-son. (Amusingly enough, I'm the youngest there, and most of the other characters are the kids of the late mob boss. And I'm their step-mom. Very trophy wife.)

Turns out I helped knock off my husband. And then I get to die two thirds of the way in - turns out Chuckro shot me.

We started rehearsals Saturday. Oh, this is going to be fun. Now if I can only get my lines down...haven't done this since middle school...

Comments

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds like so much fun - better than the mystery play we sat through with you. When are the performances?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

There's only one, on Sept 29. It's one of this church's annual fundraisers - it's one of those interactive dinner mysteries, where the characters start out in the audience, eat dinner with them, do part of the performance, and then the audience gets clues and have to guess who the murderer is, and then we finish the play.

I actually get killed off before dessert - they promised they'd send someone down to the dressing room with my dessert.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Oh, and this is not exactly a good play. It's pretty bad, actually - some of the lines are awful. And the clues are also pretty awful. But it's the kind of cheesy bad that should still be entertaining (I hope). If nothing else, Chuckro does a great dopey Brooklyn accent.

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

But it's a one-shot deal, and they can't fire you, so you can ad-lib and have fun. It'll be great!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, they can never ask me to be in one again. So I would like to do a decent job. :)