In 68 days, I'll be back on campus at my alma-mater at an extra special homecoming as Lebanon Valley College continues celebrating its 150th birthday. In honor of that countdown, here's memory #68: the very first murder mystery of mine.
For a few years (still to come in this countdown), I was the audience participation murder mystery guy on campus. But little known fact ... it all started one Halloween night of 1991 in the candlelit basement of what was then the Foreign Language house (it paid to have Dr. Scott heavily involved in our student theatre of that era).
And it was the classic old-fashioned murder mystery party ... participants walked in and were handed one of these index cards that listed the role, the age, the occupation and some necessary information about the character he or she would portray ... and then the rest was all improv prompted by someone who knew how all the pieces fit together (me)!
This late night activity actually served a dual purpose, because it was our cast party after performing a bonus Halloween showing of 'Through a Shattered Looking Glass' ... which is why the participants included cast and crew of the show (Steph A, Christopher A, John B, Stacy G, Frank H, Andy H, Amy H, Andrew P, Alison R, Lissa S, Bill T and a bunch of other people with whom I'm not currently friends on the Facebook).
Another fun fact: a select few did it all over again at a theatre retreat in the spring of 1994 ...
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