There are thirty-six musical numbers throughout the evening (the show isn’t sung-through) but this is nonetheless a pleasant and delightful production.
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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.