Death By Chocolate

  
   
2009 Season

 

Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are dropping like flies, including famed chef Edith Chiles! On the eve of the grand re-opening, this is not the best advertisement! It's up to John Stone, the manager, to find the cause and the murderer. Delightfully sarcastic and cynical. Stone finds himself teaming up with Ed Parlor, mystery writer and amateur sleuth, in a wacky race against time. The clues point to a sinister box of chocolates, and the suspects include all the outlandish characters working for the resort. Could it be Lady Riverdale, owner of the resort, and a woman with dark secrets? Or Ralph Deadwood, gym instructor and all around cad? Dick Simmering, the aerobics instructor? Anne, the panic stricken nurse? Or could it be “Sweet Pea” Meadowbrook, overweight and grieving daughter of the recently deceased founder of the resort? Combining all the elements of classic murder mysteries with a scathing satire of today's health crazes.

  

AUDITION DATES

  

 
2010 Season    

 

    
About Us     JUNE  
Auditions        
Box Office     12th & 13th  
Calendar     19th & 20th  
Contact Us        
Links     1pm to 5pm  
Location        
One Acts     3220 Bell Rd. Nashville    
Past Productions          
Shopping     At Community of Christ church    
Sponsors          
Home     SHOW DATES    
           
      AUGUST    
 
 

12th, 13th, 14th, 15th
 

CAST

19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd
 
 

Lady Riverdale

 Owner of Lady Riverdale Chocolates, Inc. and the new owner of the Meadowbrook Health Resort. She is the pompous, high-society type except when occasionally required to use a " vicious street shrewdness" to survive. (Which serves as a hint of her mysterious past).
 
 

Dyslexia

 Lady Riverdale's assistant and long-suffering secretary on loan to...
 
 

John Stone

 The new manager of the Meadowbrook Health Resort (and how he got there, no one knows.) He is quick-witted and finds almost everything absurd (a basic cynical sort of person).
 
  Ralph Deadwood The Gym Manager and all -round cad. Knowing all about Lady Riverdale's past, he has used that knowledge to get whatever he can from her.
 
  Margaret Daniels A very attractive woman who is trying to write a feature story on the resort for a leading gossip magazine.
 
  Alfred Mellox He is in charge of the janitorial staff and maintenance for the resort (a position given to him only because he was the trusted companion of the late Henry Meadowbrook). He is very stiff, rigid, and typical "butler-type" with clipped British accent.
 
  Edith Chiles The Head Chef (or would that be, "Cheftess"?). She is a rather large, buxom sort of woman with jovial personality and New England Matronly manners (whatever that means).
 
  "Sweet Pea" Meadobrook Daughter of the late Henry Meadowbrook. Extremely overweight, she seems to be trying to eat herself to death because of the trauma of losing her father. Her mouth is always full of food and no one can understand her without the help of Alfred Mellox.
 
  Dick Simmering The Aerobics Instructor. Always garbed in a jogging outfit, he is a bright, hyperactive, effeminate person
 
  Anne The resort nurse who tends to panic at the slightest injury.
 
  Ed Parlor Guest of Lady Riverdale's, he is a writer with a cheery disposition and enjoys the opportunity to try and solve the mysterious deaths by chocolate.
 
  Henry Meadowbrook The founder of the Meadowbrook Health Resort, he is never seen since he dies in the opening moments of the play
 
SETTING
 
The Meadowbrook Health Resort, a converted mansion in Upstate New York. All scenes take place in the Main Office which is a converted drawing room inside the converted mansion
 
TIME
 
The Eve of the grand Re-Opening of the Meadowbrook Health Resort after several weeks of dormancy following the death of Henry Meadowbrook.
                 
 
 

Rehearsal Schedule
 

June 12th – 13th

 

 

Auditions

June 19th – 20th

 

 

Auditions

June 20th

 

 

Casting

Mon June 21st 

 

7 – 9

Orientation / Read Through

Tue June 22nd

 

7 – 9

Read Through

Thu June 24th

 

7 – 9

Blocking Act 1 Scene 1

June 25th – 30th

 

 

No Rehearsal

Thu July 1st

 

7 – 9

Blocking Act 1 Scene 2 (Off Book Act 1 Call Line)

Tue July 6th

 

7 – 9

Blocking Act 2 Scene 1 (Off Book Act 1 No Line Call)

Thu July 8th

 

7 – 9

Blocking Act 2 Scene 2 (Off Book Act 2 Scene 1 Call Line)

Mon July 12th

 

7 – 9

Blocking Act 2 Scene 3 & Epilogue (Off Book Act 2 Scene 2 Call Line)

Tue July 13th

 

7 – 9

Run Act 1 Scene 1 (Off Book)

Thu July 15th

 

7 – 9

Run Act 1 Scene 2 (Off Book)

Sun July 18th

 

1 to 6

Set Load In

Mon July 19th

 

7 – 9

Run Act 2 Scene 1 (Off Book)

Tue July 20th

 

7 – 9

Run Act 2 Scene 2 (Off Book)

Thu July 22nd

 

7 – 9

Run Act 2 Scene 3 & Epilogue (Off Book)

Sat July 24th

 

9 to 5

Set Work Day

Mon July 26th

 

7 – 9

Run Act 1

Tue July 27th

 

7 – 9

Run Act 2 w/Epilogue

Thu July 29th

 

7 – 9

Run  Act 1

Sat July 31st

 

9 to 5

Set Work Day

Mon August 2nd

 

7 – 10

Run Act 2 w/Epilogue

Tue August 3rd

 

7 – 10

First Stumble Through

Sat August 9th t

 

9 to 5

Set Work Day

Sun August 8th

 

3 – 6

Run Through w/Tech

Mon August 9th

 

7 – 10

Dress Rehearsal

Tue August 10th

 

7 – 10

Dress Rehearsal

Wed August 11th

 

7 – 10

Final Dress Rehearsal

Thu August 12th

 

6 – 10 

Show Night

Thu August 19th

 

6 - 10

Show Night

Fri August 13th

 

6 – 10 

Show Night

Fri August 20th

 

6 - 10

Show Night

Sat August 14th

 

6 – 10 

Show Night

Sat August 21st

 

6 – 10

Show Night

Sun August 15th

 

6 – 10 

Show Night

Sun August 22nd

 

6 – 1-

Show Night

Sat August 28th

 

8 to 6

Strike

 
 

 
 
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