In 1947, the play won several awards, and as often as I have read it and seen it, this production brought me to tears, several times, after bellowing well-deserved laughter. The play has everything, and this time around, it has a cast to die for.
CTG has a ‘Clue’ when it comes to COVID-era entertainment | The Daily Gazette
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The information following the review usually indicates where, geographically speaking, the show is taking place. Technically, it took place in our granddaughter’s bedroom in Albany because that’s where I watched it, with the computer propped up on her desk.
But actually the production had been recently filmed in Congregation Beth Israel in Schenectady and was being streamed to our house, on Thursday, December 10.
I miss truly live theater, but I am glad that such forces as Classic Theater Guild have figured out a way to maintain the joy of doing theater and presenting it to us during this awful time. CLUE is a light-hearted piece of murder and mayhem adapted by Sandy Rustin (story by Jonathan Lynn) that, with a libation and a snack on hand, helps to pleasantly pass a winter’s night.