Our 24th show.
by Bert Furioli
and Butch Maxwell
As the spooky music
fades, into the eerie glow of a novelty-store party light steps one dark-suited
man... a man who would be chain-smoking if the room wasn't smoke free. Carrying
an improbable collection of children's stories, is the host of this evening's
murder mystery, the strange creator of a spooky anthology series, Odd Sterling. (Bert Furioli).
"You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension between fact and fairy tale;
a dimension of demented legends of folklore, gone askew of the storybook,
under a blue florescent glow... "Once Upon a Crime - in the Black Light
Zone."
"Submitted for your approval: A hooded girl
with a propensity for wearing red, now all grown up and running a courier
service for fairy tale characters." Sterling adds that "Said Red
Riding Hood (Dee
McCorkle) is dispatched
to the home of one little old lady know to Ms. Hood as Grandma, who is hosting
party for a king. Along the way, she is followed by the son of the legendary
Big Bad Wolf."
Grandma (Arlene Merryman), is known to travel on broomsticks
and ask advise of her mirrors and kitchen appliances.
The king, (Gino Angelo), is not the jolly old soul he is
rumored to be. He hates his own pipe and bowl and despises fiddle music.
In fact, he is a cranky old man who couldn't be bothered to lend out his
men or his horses to put Humpty Dumpty together again. It is said that he
is haunted by a witch's curse.
And Big Bad Wolf Jr., (Butch
Maxwell),a sophisticated
gourmet of vegetarian foods and who is fond of women who speak French, wants
nothing more than to avenge the murder of his father.
~ ~ ~
All this, under
the occasional eerie psychedelic glow light, happens "Once Upon a Crime - in the Black
Light Zone." For more background on this show, see also: Scenes of
"The Crime"
Cast
Little Red Riding
Hood ~ Dee
McCorkle
Grandma ~ Arlene
Merryman
Big Bad Wolf, Jr. ~ Butch
Maxwell
Old King Cole ~ Gino
Angelo
Odd Sterling ~ Bert
Furioli
Understudies:
Little Red Riding Hood ~ Rachel
Podwika (Sept. - Oct.
2001) Cheryl
Saseen (June 2004)
Jen
Gellner (April 2006)
Big Bad Wolf Jr. ~ Larry
Carlisle (Oct. 2001) Ryan
Sears (April 2006)
Old King Cole ~ Michael
Moran (June 2004)
Mario
Muscar (April 2006)
Odd Stering ~ Michael
Moran (March 2004)
Michael
Ramsay (April 2006)
Original Run: Wednesday,
August 22 through Saturday, November 17, 2001
Revival: February 14 - April 14, 2004
Special Performances: June 2004, April 2006
Private Parties Call: 304-242-7828
Last updated: March 22, 2006