FJA presents "Drop Dead!"
FJA stages the murder-mystery farce "Drop Dead!" on Thursday, December 10, at 7 p.m. at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield. Cast and crew keep turning up dead during a disastrous production; tickets are $19.
Written by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, "Drop Dead!" is a play about a play: a 576-page script boiled down to an 18-page plot. A mix of has-been divas and green actors pin their hopes on a potboiler mystery, all under director Victor LePewe, the self-styled "Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage," who is really an eye-twitching, megalomaniac.
In Act One, the final dress rehearsal, lines get dropped, props vanish, actors run into the scenery and sound cues go wrong, all while people start turning up murdered. In Act Two, opening night, the bodies keep piling up, and the survivors have to save the show, solve the mystery and stay alive until the final curtain. Expect slapstick and plenty of one-liners.
Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
In Act One, the final dress rehearsal, lines get dropped, props vanish, actors run into the scenery and sound cues go wrong, all while people start turning up murdered. In Act Two, opening night, the bodies keep piling up, and the survivors have to save the show, solve the mystery and stay alive until the final curtain. Expect slapstick and plenty of one-liners.
Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
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