As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Erica Moser
As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
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Blackpool impresario Varthur McArthur has a doozy of an idea for a new show, a circus/seafaring whodunnit subtitled Death on the High Seas Trapeze. He assembles his cast for dinner, and â one power cut later â ends up dead, his face planted in a bowl of soup. Oh, the irony! But this lurid twist is merely an aperitif at A Killer Party, a cheerfully camp murder mystery musical for home viewing that made waves in the US last year. Recorded by an isolated cast, and spliced together ingeniously in Benji Sperringâs UK production, it is (judging by the first three of nine episodes) preposterous, barely coherent, likably silly and undeniably hummable.
‘It was a ride’: Greenfield native speaks to producing murder mystery musical virtually
Broadway star and Greenfield native Kevin Duda returned to town Thursday night for a screening of one of his productions, “A Killer Party,” at the Garden Cinemas, followed by a question and answer session. Staff Photo/MARY BYRNE
Published: 5/7/2021 3:18:13 PM
GREENFIELD Kevin Duda, a Broadway star and Greenfield native, returned to his roots Thursday night for a screening of his production of the murder mystery musical, “A Killer Party.”
The screening at the Garden Cinemas this week marked the first cinematic run for the virtual musical, Duda said, which tells the story of an artistic director who invites his troupe of “disgruntled actors” to his home for the first read of an immersive murder mystery dinner party. When he becomes the victim, a new detective is on the case, interviewing each of the guests in separate rooms. The production was initially filmed as nine 10- to
The Sorrows Of Satan (thesorrowsofsatan.com)
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A Killer Party (akillerparty.co.uk)
Verdict: Spoof on the hoof
Poor old Mr Wickham. He s been one of the most reviled characters in literature ever since he eloped with Lizzie Bennet s little sister Lydia in Jane Austen s novel Pride And Prejudice.
Having played the saucy scoundrel in Andrew Davies s 1995 TV series (opposite Colin Firth s goody-goody Mr Darcy), Adrian Lukis finally sets the record straight with his account of the fearful bounder s bad behaviour.
It s the evening of his 60th birthday, and he s been barred by Lydia from their bedroom. Happily, he observes, he has a bottle to kill and an audience to entertain .
A Killer Party ‘is a lot of fun’ | Review
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May 7, 2021
I wouldn’t exactly say Ben Forster appearing as himself in this musical comedy is a career highlight (he is, after all, someone who has played the title role in the West End production of
The Phantom of the Opera) but it’s evident that he doesn’t take himself too seriously in
A Killer Party. The narrative arc is as predictable as night follows day. In short, this is a murder mystery story in which various leads are followed up, some more plausible than others, before eventually there’s a breakthrough of some kind in the investigation which results in the case being solved.