Mayhem & Mystery presents their latest interactive mystery production, Gams, Gangsters, & Gigglewater. Join Sherry “Louisiana” Sugar at her speakeasy, the Warehouse, where she makes sure that all of her guests have a wonderful time and that the drinks are in abundance. Jack Rose, a supposed gangster with an interest in the Warehouse, likes to hang around, much to the annoyance of Louisiana. Are his interests just in the drinks? “Gin” Rickey Roscoe, a local hooch runner, supplies alcohol to the Warehouse and other clubs in the area. Gin is easily distracted by beautiful women, especially the singers and dancers at the Warehouse, including Brandy Belle Bearcat. Brandy is a former vaudeville performer who is just waiting for her big break on Broadway. Brandy always has a “sugar daddy” to keep her in expensive jewels and furs and the like. When one of the foursome dies mysteriously, all are at a loss. Can you solve the crime? Prizes are awarded at the end.
Cost is only $29.95 for dinner of salad, bread, select entrees, and beverage, and show (tax and gratuity not included). Shows are 7:00 PM weekly on Monday evenings plus one Friday each month at the Spaghetti Warehouse, 36 W. 5th Street, Dayton, 45402. Reservations are required. Call 937.461.3913 to reserve your seat now. Show runs approximately 2 1/2 hours.
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Gams, Gangsters, & Gigglewater presented by Mayhem & Mystery
Mayhem & Mystery presents their latest interactive mystery production, Gams, Gangsters, & Gigglewater. Join Sherry “Louisiana” Sugar at her speakeasy, the Warehouse, where she makes sure that all of her guests have a wonderful time and that the drinks are in abundance. Jack Rose, a supposed gangster with an interest in the Warehouse, likes to hang around, much to the annoyance of Louisiana. Are his interests just in the drinks? “Gin” Rickey Roscoe, a local hooch runner, supplies alcohol to the Warehouse and other clubs in the area. Gin is easily distracted by beautiful women, especially the singers and dancers at the Warehouse, including Brandy Belle Bearcat. Brandy is a former vaudeville performer who is just waiting for her big break on Broadway. Brandy always has a “sugar daddy” to keep her in expensive jewels and furs and the like. When one of the foursome dies mysteriously, all are at a loss. Can you solve the crime? Prizes are awarded at the end.
Cost is only $29.95 for dinner of salad, bread, select entrees, and beverage, and show (tax and gratuity not included). Shows are 7:00 PM weekly on Monday evenings plus one Friday each month at the Spaghetti Warehouse, 36 W. 5th Street, Dayton, 45402. Reservations are required. Call 937.461.3913 to reserve your seat now. Show runs approximately 2 1/2 hours.
Gams, Gangsters, & Gigglewater presented by Mayhem & Mystery
Mayhem & Mystery presents their latest interactive mystery production, Gams, Gangsters, & Gigglewater. Join Sherry “Louisiana” Sugar at her speakeasy, the Warehouse, where she makes sure that all of her guests have a wonderful time and that the drinks are in abundance. Jack Rose, a supposed gangster with an interest in the Warehouse, likes to hang around, much to the annoyance of Louisiana. Are his interests just in the drinks? “Gin” Rickey Roscoe, a local hooch runner, supplies alcohol to the Warehouse and other clubs in the area. Gin is easily distracted by beautiful women, especially the singers and dancers at the Warehouse, including Brandy Belle Bearcat. Brandy is a former vaudeville performer who is just waiting for her big break on Broadway. Brandy always has a “sugar daddy” to keep her in expensive jewels and furs and the like. When one of the foursome dies mysteriously, all are at a loss. Can you solve the crime? Prizes are awarded at the end.
Cost is only $29.95 for dinner of salad, bread, select entrees, and beverage, and show (tax and gratuity not included). Shows are 7:00 PM weekly on Monday evenings plus one Friday each month at the Spaghetti Warehouse, 36 W. 5th Street, Dayton, 45402. Reservations are required. Call 937.461.3913 to reserve your seat now. Show runs approximately 2 1/2 hours.
Gams, Gangsters, & Gigglewater presented by Mayhem & Mystery
Mayhem & Mystery presents their latest interactive mystery production, Gams, Gangsters, & Gigglewater. Join Sherry “Louisiana” Sugar at her speakeasy, the Warehouse, where she makes sure that all of her guests have a wonderful time and that the drinks are in abundance. Jack Rose, a supposed gangster with an interest in the Warehouse, likes to hang around, much to the annoyance of Louisiana. Are his interests just in the drinks? “Gin” Rickey Roscoe, a local hooch runner, supplies alcohol to the Warehouse and other clubs in the area. Gin is easily distracted by beautiful women, especially the singers and dancers at the Warehouse, including Brandy Belle Bearcat. Brandy is a former vaudeville performer who is just waiting for her big break on Broadway. Brandy always has a “sugar daddy” to keep her in expensive jewels and furs and the like. When one of the foursome dies mysteriously, all are at a loss. Can you solve the crime? Prizes are awarded at the end.
Cost is only $29.95 for dinner of salad, bread, select entrees, and beverage, and show (tax and gratuity not included). Shows are 7:00 PM weekly on Monday evenings plus one Friday each month at the Spaghetti Warehouse, 36 W. 5th Street, Dayton, 45402. Reservations are required. Call 937.461.3913 to reserve your seat now. Show runs approximately 2 1/2 hours.
Coming up in Dayton Theatre, 9/20 – 9/29
Hello again! Welcome back and hello! We’ve got three good shows closing this weekend, a couple still running and one getting ready to open. Let’s get right on stage.
Closing This Weekend!
Hairspray!
Dayton Playhouse
The Skinny: This high-spirited musical musical takes place in 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland. Teenager, Tracy Turnblad, dreams of dancing on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program. When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight. She then launches a campaign to integrate the show. The show deals with injustices of parts of American society in the 1960’s.
Dates: Hairspray runs this weekend, closing Sunday, 9/22.
Tickets: Please visit the Dayton Playhouse website at www.daytonplayhouse.com
Hair
Beavercreek Community Theatre
The Skinny: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical!This show introduced America to the “Rock musical”, with songs that became standards, such as “The Age Of Aquarius” and “Easy To Be Hard.” Hair focuses on a “tribe” of hippies, touching on several different individual stories, woven throughout with the tragedy of the Vietnam conflict.
Dates: Hairs also closes this weekend, Sunday 9/22.
Tickets: Please visit www.bctheatre.org
First Baptist of Ivy Gap
The Skinny: During WWII, six women gather at the church to roll bandages and plan the church’s 75th anniversary. Overseeing things is Edith, the pastor’s wise-cracking wife who dispenses Red Cross smocks and witty repartee to Luby, whose son is fighting in the Pacific; Mae Ellen, the church’s rebellious organist who wants to quit but hasn’t the courage; Olene, who dreams of a career in Hollywood; Sammy, a shy newcomer with a secret; and Vera, an influential Baptist with a secret of her own. When Luby learns her son has been wounded, she confounds the others by blaming the vulnerable Sammy. Twenty-five years later, our “First Baptist Six” reunite!
Dates: Closing Sunday, 9/22
Tickets: To make ticket reservations, please call the Brookville Flower Shop at 937-833-3531
Opening This Weekend!
Harvey
The Wright State Theatre Company
The Skinny: Elwood P. Dowd is an endlessly pleasant & delightfully eccentric bachelor living in a small town that isn’t quite aware that its newest citizen is a 6’3″ white rabbit named “Harvey,” that only certain people can see.
Dates: Harvey opens Thursday, 9/19 and runs through 9/29
Tickets: Please visit the WSU Theatre Department box office website: http://www.wright.edu/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures/performances/ticket-information
Currently In Production
Becky’s New Car
The Human Race Theatre Company
The Skinny: Becky Foster is stuck in neutral—middle aged, in middle management and a middling marriage—until an honest misunderstanding with a wealthy widower offers her the chance at an exciting double life…and she takes it. Now she’s frantically juggling to keep her two worlds apart before everything threatens to come crashing down on her. It’s enough to drive Becky off a cliff, and she’s taking the audience along for the ride!
Dates: Running through the 29th.
Tickets: Please visit the Human Race Theatre Company website at www.humanracetheatre.org
A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement
La Comedia Dinner Theatre
The Skinny: The fourth installment in the popular Church Basement Ladies series takes place in 1960, and reformation is underway. The Church Basement Ladies are once again required to face chance head-on, but they will stand strong in their faith and their friendships.
Dates: Closing 10/27.
Tickets: Please visit the La Comedia website at www.lacomedia.com
Coming up in Dayton Theater: 1/25 – 2/3
Welcome back, theatre lovers and seers and makers and doers! Time to once-again check in on our little corner of the theatre world here in Dayton, and see what the next fortnight shall bring!
Closing This Weekend!
Shrek! The Musical!
The Victoria Theatre
The Skinny: Based on the hilarious original movie, this family-friendly and crowd-pleasing musical includes music featured in the movie as well as wonderful original songs.
Dates: Closing on Sunday, 1/27
Tickets: Please visit Tickets Center Stage for all ticketing information; www.ticketcenterstage.com
Ghosts
The Dayton Theatre Guild
The Skinny: The ‘‘ghosts’’ in this play are taboo topics that cannot be openly discussed. This drama is one of Ibsen’s most powerful works, but also one of his most controversial. Family sins are revisited when a son returns home to dedicate an orphanage in his father’s name and becomes involved in a tryst that ends in the painful knowledge of long suppressed family truths.
Dates: Closing this weekend, on 1/27.
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online at the DTG website, here.
Opening This Weekend!
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Dayton Playhouse
The Skinny: Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners is both a romance, if tongue-in-cheek, and a sly personal commentary on the British class system. Also, it’s hilarious.
Dates: Opening Friday, 1/25 and running two weekends to close on Sunday, 2/3. On Saturday, 2/2, there will be a special “Afternoon Tea” performance including a high tea featuring treats from one of Dayton’s most-charming confectionery shoppes, Sweet Nothings (www.getsweetnothings.com).
Tickets: Tickets for all performances, including the special Afternoon Tea, are available online, here.
1913: The Great Dayton Flood
Wright State University
The Skinny: By W. Stuart McDowell and Timothy Nevits, inspired by the book A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood by Allan W. Eckert, with recorded narration by Martin Sheen, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
Dates: Opening Thursday, 1/24 and running three weekends to close Sunday, 2/10.
Tickets: Ticketing information is available at the WSU Theatre Dept website, here.
Steppin’ Out
Beavercreek Community Theatre
The Skinny: Steppin’ Out is the story of Mavis, a former professional chorus girl who tries her hardest to teach a group of bumbling amateurs some terpsichorean skills for an upcoming recital. But before the dancing begins Mavis must mediate the minor dramas that erupt among this motley but loveable crew on their way to triumph at their recital.
Dates: Opening Friday, 1/25 and running 2 weekends to close on Sunday, 2/3.
Tickets: For all ticketing information, please visit the BCT website, here.
Currently Running!
The Dixie Swim Club
La Comedia Dinner Theatre
The Skinny: An hilarious and touching comedy about five unforgettable Southern women, and the bond of friendships that last a lifetime.
Dates: Running through March 3rd. This production has no Wednesday performances.
Ticketing: Tickets are available at the La Comedia website, and include their well-loved dinner buffet. Visit lacomedia.com for further details.
