The Vermont Theatre Company announces another of their popular mystery dinner theater productions, this year a flashback to the 1970’s, “Murder at the Disco”, to be presented at the Dummerston Grange in Dummerston, VT on September 17 and 18.

It is 1979 at the trendy Studio Manhattan, a chic and glamorous New York discotheque frequented by the rich and famous. In their platform shoes and polyester leisure suits guests feverishly dance the Hustle and the Bump to the throbbing rhythmic disco beat as zany DJ Wolfguy Jake spins the vinyl platters.  But where is notorious club owner Jackie Fever? Has she really danced her last dance? Is she still “stayin’ alive”? A scream is heard, a body is discovered, and Detective Starsky Hutch (Bob Kramsky) is on the case to discover what really happened to Jackie Fever and who put out her lights at the disco.

The Vermont Theatre Company announces auditions for "The Heiress," a two-act play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz suggested by Henry James's "Washington Square."  There are roles for five women and four men.  The auditions will be held Wednesday and Thursday, September 8 and 9, in the BUHS auditorium at 7:00 P.M.  Show dates are November 5-7 and 12-14, at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston.

You do not need to prepare a monologue for the auditions.  One copy of the script will be on reserve at the Brooks Memorial Library, and portions of the script are available for free through Google Books.

If you are unable to attend on either of these dates or if you are unable to arrive close to 7:00, please contact the director, Bob Wellington (see below for contact information) to make alternative arrangements.

The Play:
At first glance, the play, set in New York in 1850, is a straightforward tale of a jilted woman's revenge on her fortune hunting suitor.  But the complex relationships between the characters raise the question of how the shy young woman at the beginning of the play became the embittered spinster at the end.  Ideally, the audience should be looking for a villain and unable to determine who it is.