Fall 2011
A ghost tries to find out who murdered her in a witty, sophisticated, yet suspenseful look at the upper crust of Hollywood. The curtain rises to find Jane, Oscar winning screen writer, dead at the bottom of the stairs in a Vermont ski lodge. Her four friends and husband are saying she fell. “I was pushed!” she says as her ghost rises. Aided by Kitty, a rather wanton adviser from “up there,” Jane is brought ahead to the present, three years after the murder, where the same group is gathered. They are all famous film makers with an intense hate love relationship; Jane’s husband who has married an ambitious ingenue, a heading for middle age leading lady, an arrogant director, and Hollywood’s reigning gossip columnist. The five suspects join together to keep the possible murder quiet for reasons of their own but their relationship busts apart with their mutual distrust. Woven through the suspense in humorous, acidic, and revealing comedy is an extraordinary whodunit with a surprise denouement when the murderer is revealed.
Cast
Hugh Lawton Peter Smith
Betsy Randolph Hollie Sheppard
Valerie Vickers Judy Beler
Jane Ackerly Paula Bancroft
Edwina Dunbar Cindy Thornton
Justin Wills Duell Pruden-Doughty
Kitty Angie Podgurny
Production Team
Director Scott McKenzie
Assistant Director Kelly Ainsworth
Producer Leslie Hart
Stage Manager Pamela Gehlert
Set designer/Carpenter Geoff Allcock
Set dressing and props Geoff and Janet Allcock
Costume Manager Christine Awde
Lights and Sound Ben Schmidt
Front of House Manager Midge Laslop
Box Office Brenda Clavier
Marketing Janet Allcock
Photography Chelsea Hart
