UPDATE!  The Dinner Theatre performances on Friday & Saturday are  SOLD OUT, but no worries – you haven’t MISSED OUT! Palace Theatre management will open the Pavilion doors on Thursday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m. to patrons wishing to see the show. The show begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and available ONLY AT THE DOOR. First-come, first serve general admission seating at tables.

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Mystery. Murder. And, lots of surprises and laughs abound in the Palace’s annual Dinner Theatre held in the May Pavilion.

Following a catered buffet dinner, “YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN DEAD” narrator, Harnell Chesterton, will take the audience to visit a small community theatre group staging a play set in the Deep South….and the scene of the crime. Here you’ll meet Fat Daddy, a rich but vindictive southern gentleman with an equally conniving and scheming family: Sweet Mama, Daddy’s pandering wife; Hyacinth, the daughter who’s always cleaning the family firearms; Earl the worm and his overly amorous wife, Savannah; and Clete, the sullen handyman who, for some reason, is in the will? But, did a member of the cast commit the murder—or did someone in the audience?

Twists, turns and a fast-paced dialogue will keep the audience guessing “whodunnit” until the last clue is dropped.

All Occasions Catering will prepare the family style dinner: Choice of Penne Pasta & Shrimp in Tomato Basil Sauce or Braised Beef Short Ribs, Roast Fingerling Potatoes, Steamed Broccoli, Assorted Desserts, and a Deluxe Coffee Bar. A cash bar will also be available.

Directed by Margaret Bowman. Reserved Seating $40 for dinner and show.*

Please contact the Palace Box Office (740) 383-2101 to reserve your seats. Box Office hours 9a-5p Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri.

*non-member fees apply ($1 per ticket)

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MEET THE CAST:

HARNELL CHESTERTON – Bob Sullivan-Neer

OFFICER BAINBRIDGE – Mike Cochran

BLANCHE LaTOURE – Dee Ehrman

ARNOLD TURNBULL/FAT DADDY – Bruce Cudd

DORIS TURNBULL/SWEET MAMA – Joni Carlson

LOIS JACOBSEN/SAVANNAH – Rebecca (Becky) Pfeiffer

STEVE RANDALL /EARL – Tim Lutz

LEIGH DORSETT/HYACINTH – Sarah Perkins

AJAX CONROY/CLETE – Jay Reid

TRUDY MARSH – Sami-Kay Mergy

 

“You Have the Right to Remain Dead” by Pat Cook | Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.

Sponsored in part by Mary H. Hollaway Palace Theatre Fund at Marion Community Foundation and supported by Ohio Arts Council.

Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m. | Performance follows dinner | Doors open at 6 p.m.

Sponsored in part by Mary H. Hollaway Palace Theatre Fund at Marion Community Foundation and supported by Ohio Arts Council.