Interactive Musical Comedy Murder Mystery
Once Upon a
Crime
(In the Twilite Zoan)
Once upon a time, everybody had a motive.
Complete Script on NPX →The Mystery
Happily ever after has been cancelled.
Old King Cole is tired of royalty and wants the wicked witch who transformed him from a frog to reverse the spell. The witch is hiding in plain sight as Grandma, a sweet old lady with a bubbling cauldron and an unusually flexible definition of dinner.
Little Red Riding Hood arrives with Big Bad Wolf Jr. close behind, while Odd Sterling narrates the fractured fairy tale toward another dimension. Then Sterling samples Grandma’s stew and dies — leaving four suspects, four motives, and an audience charged with finding the killer.
The Experience
Eventually, even the narrator comes from the audience.
Guests become Grandma’s Mirror Reflection, Goldilocks, a telephone Operator, and finally the replacement Narrator. The entire audience questions the suspects and completes Detective Cards before the solution.
Evidence from the Case
Somewhere between Grimm and the Twilite Zoan.
Production Information & Script
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The Morning After
The cauldron is cold.
The stories are done.
Somewhere, the frog is happy.
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