The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

MURDERS is the intelligent person`s kind of nonsense. ?NY Magazine

Written by John Bishop

Directed by Nick Reeves

Original Music by Erich Einfalt

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is coming to the Coronado Playhouse. Complete with Nazi saboteurs, secret passageways, flickering lights, and the blizzard of the century, this ingenious and wildly comic romp spoofs the great murder mystery movies of the 1940’s. Can you unravel the identity of the Stage Door Slasher? Murder has never been this much fun!

NOTE: This show is not a musical, though it does contain snippets of songs from White House Merry-Go-Round, Marlene Dietrich, and Sophie Tucker. It will however tickle your funny bone and leave you gasping for air.

"…a kind of crossbreeding of Charles Ludlam The Mystery of Irma Vep and Terrence McNally It`s Only a Play seasoned with a soupcon of NOISES OFF." ?NY Times.

"...Bishop gives us a nakedly silly and relentlessly convoluted murder-mystery plot, with twist piled on twist till you have to give way and start laughing at the silliness... it`s hugely enjoyable." ?The Village Voice.