The
Mafia Murders (a murder mystery game by Haley Productions)
The following is a detailed account by Kristine Tibbs
of her
very successful murder mystery evening. It is FULL OF GREAT IDEAS you
can use.
From: Tibbs, Kristine
H CIV Code 01A32 [kristine.tibbs@navy.mil]
3 of 3 success stories. Also see: Final
Cut and Murder
on Maui
I am sure you remember the Murder Mystery that we put on last year (The
Final Cut) by a bunch of Navy sailors and family...well, it was such a hit
last year that the same command bid on the Murder Mystery this year and
won it...what did they pay for it? $2,150.00! The admiral put in 400.00
of his own money to win it.
Our teaser was the best yet and we did it to a captive audience...because
of the previous ones that we did, you could hear a pin drop during our skit.
Donato comes out (The Godfather music playing) with
his thugs (we had Tommy guns crafted by one of our guys). He stops in
the middle of the room and
says, "Why is it every time I walk into a room, this music plays?" Then
we have the soundman taken out for a thrashing.
All the guys have marshmallows stuck in their mouths,
when Donato starts to talk and starts to gag...he spits out the marshmallows
into his hand
and says "Hey! Take the marshmallows outta you mouths...they look stupid!" All
the guys take a rag out of their coat jackets and spit their marshmallows
into the napkins and lay them on the tables where ever they were standing...the
crowd went crazy.
Then Donato says, "Hey Crusher, you got the thing?" "No
boss, I don't got the thing...hey Waldo, you got the thing...what thing?
I don't know nothin about the thing...no one ever tells me anything about
the anything...Hey Fast Hands, you got the thing? No I ain't got the thing...hey
Maul Man, you got the thing? No I don't have the thing...then Crusher says,
Awwww fogetaboutit...Hey boss, I guess we left the thing in the Library...etc...Donato
then invites people to the Library and then the bidding began...it was triumphant!
The Mystery dinner will be at our CO's house this year. I have three people
to commit to driving their Model T Fords for picking up our guests! We are
going to pick them up and blindfold some of them, stop and drag one person
out of one car and place him in another...have the FBI following us and
we lose them...all kinds of fun stuff before they even get to the party.
Keep writing those mysteries! We may do it again next year...we are getting
a new CO so we don't know what is to happen next year. By the way...this
year, I am the director...and I will be playing the floozy that sings...or
Rose Scallopini. Not sure yet...I just may combine the characters. Our Rita
is going to be great. She is a redhead, but I talked her into dying her
hair black for the occasion. And our Fifi is great...She is going to have
the blonde pageboy wig and then she will pull it off when she reveals her
true identity. Our Jimmy and Dapper are played by John Marsh who was Rock
last year (he would have made a great Quinnie too) and he played the lead's
sidekick in Murder on Maui. He is a fabulous actor...he's playing The GYP
with a lisp kind of like Daffy Duck (too bad he only has
a few lines in the beginning, but he is great...makes us laugh so hard we
want to pee in
our pants) and he plays a very nervous Dapper...hysterically funny!
There will be more who will also get into the swing
of things. It will be the best yet! Anyway, CDR Feustel did leave us to
go to a carrier. He
is the Submarine Fleet Liaison for surface ship that he is on. He coordinated
everything last year and the year before. This year I am the "patsy" who
got roped into coordinating stuff and directing the Murder Mystery. I'll
write again after we do the mystery.
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