All-Woman Murder Mystery Party in Collegeville, PA

Dear Jack,

Last winter our group used your play, "Death in Them Thar Hills" and it was a big success! What started out as an experiment to see how mystery dinner theaters would go over, turned into a sell-out crowd. It was the best attended event ever put on here (250 people showed up). We offered a buffet dinner of BBQ, cole slaw, beans, and Texas cake for dessert.

I took photos before the play and made a poster which I tacked up in our clubhouse (each photo was half a page). I was directing it, but two days before the play, our bar lady, "Cattie Adams" got very ill. No one could be found to take her place, so I rearranged the players, and used the outfit she had made for herself (3 sizes too big for me), tied the sash as tightly as I could in back and had a ball!

Our prizes for the winning table were old (well-scrubbed) horseshoes with a bag of trail mix and ribbon tied around them. I managed to track down a local farrier, and he donated a whole box of recently removed horseshoes, some in better shape than others.

We walked around the night of the play when the doors were opened, and introduced ourselves to the friends and neighbors we live with as the characters we were playing. They were in awe! Some of them didn't even recognize our friend who was playing Chief Hawk-Who-Watches. The Indian headdress was loaned to us by a neighbor who is an Indian buff! The headdress is real! I could write a book about putting this event together. We couldn't find a stretcher for Dusty, so we put him on a rack that holds folding chairs, covered him with black cloth, wheeled him out. So he wouldn't feel left out after dinner, we sat him on the stage (where we all sat and performed/ate), and put a sign around him neck that read, "Dusty's Ghost".

Best wishes,
Gail Spell
Lake Wales, FL



	Dear Jack, Last winter our group used your play, "Death in Them Thar Hills" and it was a big success! What started out as an experiment to see how mystery dinner theaters would go over, turned into a sell-out crowd. It was the best attended event ever put on here (250 people showed up). We offered a buffet dinner of BBQ, cole slaw, beans, and Texas cake for dessert. I took photos before the play and made a poster which I tacked up in our clubhouse (each photo was half a page). I was directing it, but two days before the play, our bar lady, "Cattie Adams" got very ill. No one could be found to take her place, so I rearranged the players, and used the outfit she had made for herself (3 sizes too big for me), tied the sash as tightly as I could in back and had a ball! Our prizes for the winning table were old (well-scrubbed) horseshoes with a bag of trail mix and ribbon tied around them. I managed to track down a local farrier, and he donated a whole box of recently removed horseshoes, some in better shape than others. We walked around the night of the play when the doors were opened, and introduced ourselves to the friends and neighbors we live with as the characters we were playing. They were in awe! Some of them didn't even recognize our friend who was playing Chief Hawk-Who-Watches. The Indian headdress was loaned to us by a neighbor who is an Indian buff! The headdress is real! I could write a book about putting this event together. We couldn't find a stretcher for Dusty, so we put him on a rack that holds folding chairs, covered him with black cloth, wheeled him out. So he wouldn't feel left out after dinner, we sat him on the stage (where we all sat and performed/ate), and put a sign around him neck that read, "Dusty's Ghost". Best wishes, Gail Spell Lake Wales, FL
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"The best attended event ever."