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Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s, May 18

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s

Solve A Murder on the third Wednesday of every month at the Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre.

Starring Role – for You! Be the investigator who solves this Murder Mystery!

Location: Wendy’s located at 16400 Harbour Way in Bowie, MD 20716.

Third Wednesday each month, starting at 7:00PM

Visit our Facebook page to find out this month’s current murder: https://www.facebook.com/BowieCommunityTheatre

FREE! Be a Captive Audience and Support YOUR Local Theatre! We hope you enjoy dinner at Wendy’s between 6pm-9pm on this night as 20% of all your food and drink purchases (as well as drive-through sales) are donated to Bowie Community Theatre.

BCT’s Murder Mystery Troupe will present the interactive Murder Mystery

Murder is Par for the Course

It was the match of the century for the prestigious Porous Pines Country Club. For the past decade, the professional champion Holin Wunn had dominated the tournaments throughout the region. His prowess as a pro resulted in awards, accolades and, of course, a lifestyle that most golfers only dream of. Wunn’s tenacity on the tee and rigor in the rough were unchallenged by any man – but not so when it came to women.

For the past year, Birdie Bigelow, the undisputed women’s regional champ had repeatedly issued a challenge to the legendary Wunn. She would (so she proclaimed) in match play, demonstrate that Wunn’s stance to keep women out of men’s tournaments was more the result of fear than fact.

“Golf is more brains than brawn,” she told the press. “He might drive the ball farther, but no one can size up a course like I can.” With pressure from all sides, Wunn finally agreed to the head-to-head confrontation. The date of the match was set. Reporters gushed over a legendary battle of the sexes to settle the matter once and for all. It would be 18 holes of golf that would go down in the annals of the game.

After 17 holes, Wunn was up-1. That’s when it became dead-even. For as Wunn teed up for the 18th hole, a deathly silence fell over the crowd. Just as his driver reached the zenith of its arc, Wunn released the club. His eyes rolled back in their sockets and he collapsed. All efforts to revive him failed. At first, observers feared a hidden medical problem had surfaced, yet police thought otherwise. They confirmed that the evidence pointed toward homicide.

Who would dare club to death the gender controversy with such irony? Why would they even putter around with such matters? Now, it would be necessary to trap a killer with a stroke of investigative genius.

Join us on May 18, 2016!

Auditions for A Tomb with a View by Bowie Community Theater, May 11-12

Auditions for A Tomb with a View by Bowie Community Theater, May 11-12

A Tomb with a View
By Norman Robbins
Directed by Jeffrey Lesniak

Please click here to see the play and character descriptions.

A Tomb with a View

Bowie Community Theatre is pleased to announce auditions for A Tomb With a View, by Norman Robbins, directed by Jeffery Lesniak. This comedy-thriller will start off BCT’s 50th Anniversary Season, with auditions on Wednesday and Thursday, May 11 and 12, 2016 at the Kenhill Center, 2614 Kenhill Drive, Bowie, MD from 7:30PM to 9:30PM. Callbacks, if necessary, will be on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 6600 Laurel-Bowie Road (Route 197) Bowie, MD in the Multi-Purpose Room from 7:30PM to 9:30PM. Performance dates are July 15-31, 2016 at the Bowie Playhouse.

Auditioners will be asked to do cold readings from the script. British accents are required. Please bring head shots/resumes and all conflicts from May through July. Questions? Email Jeffery Lesniak, director, at jeff@jefflesniak.com

Synopsis of Play:

Reading of the Will has never been this hilariously sinister . . . or this filled with outrageous, cut-throat family members all vying for the millions left to unlikely heirs. You’ll meet the various Tomb Family members, one by one, each one more bizarre than the last. Be prepared to be ‘serenaded’ by werewolves, ‘entertained’ by Julius Caesar, and even ’embedded in the garden’ by a sweet little old aunt who plants more than just seeds in her flower beds. By the end of the show, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast. All is revealed as the plot twists and turns to its surprising conclusion.

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s, Apr 20

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s

Solve A Murder on the third Wednesday of every month at the Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre.

Starring Role – for You! Be the investigator who solves this Murder Mystery!

Location: Wendy’s located at 16400 Harbour Way in Bowie, MD 20716.

Third Wednesday each month, starting at 7:00PM

Visit our Facebook page to find out this month’s current murder: https://www.facebook.com/BowieCommunityTheatre

FREE! Be a Captive Audience and Support YOUR Local Theatre! We hope you enjoy dinner at Wendy’s between 6pm-9pm on this night as 20% of all your food and drink purchases (as well as drive-through sales) are donated to Bowie Community Theatre.

CT’s Murder Mystery Troupe will present the interactive Murder Mystery:
Death Ahoy

Cruise Director Sunny Sails had her own way of handling the passengers on the good ship Legendary Carnival. Her two decades of life on the Caribbean had seen her promoted from busgirl to the person whom everyone depends upon to get things done.

The past eight years had been spent making sure that passengers were happy and content as they enjoyed the amenities of a world-class cruise ship. It was indeed strange, then, that her body was found early one warm morning tucked away near a lifeboat on Deck 5. At first, everyone was certain it was a tragic accident – an unexpected slip on a wet deck, or an inadvertent misstep.

Yet, the more that was discovered about the death, the more apparent it became that Sails met her demise in an untimely fashion. Who would have wanted to do in such a maritime fixture? After all, stories of Sunny’s many adventures were recounted by cruise ship employees from Fort Lauderdale to Panama.

Some of those tales, if true, would make an experienced sailor blush. Her many encounters with the rich and famous aboard the Legendary Carnival would provide fascinating reading for someone who might want to learn the real ins and outs of a life aboard a luxury ocean liner.

Although the official investigation of the death would have to wait until the ship docked, a select group of on-board sleuths could provide an early insight into what could have happened to turn a sunny event into a cloudy affair.

Join us on April 20, 2016!

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s, Mar 16

Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre at Wendy’s

Solve A Murder on the third Wednesday of every month at the Murder Mystery Theater by Bowie Community Theatre.

Starring Role – for You! Be the investigator who solves this Murder Mystery!

Location: Wendy’s located at 16400 Harbour Way in Bowie, MD 20716.

Third Wednesday each month, starting at 7:00PM

Visit our Facebook page to find out this month’s current murder: https://www.facebook.com/BowieCommunityTheatre

FREE! Be a Captive Audience and Support YOUR Local Theatre! We hope you enjoy dinner at Wendy’s between 6pm-9pm on this night as 20% of all your food and drink purchases (as well as drive-through sales) are donated to Bowie Community Theatre.

BCT’s Murder Mystery Troupe will present the interactive Murder Mystery

Murder Most Green

This special holiday murder mystery takes place in the City of Blarney in your state. Your guests are invited to a St. Patrick’s Day party to honor Patrick Flaherty, owner of Flaherty’s True Green Plant Nursery.

When they arrive, they find out that Flaherty died the previous night after a get-together that celebrated the nursery’s centennial year. Instead of having a party, your guests will be attending his wake. Family members and acquaintances pay their respects to Flaherty and, in the process, drop hints that Flaherty’s death might be more than accidental. An undercover member of the local police force, who believes that foul play is prevalent, leads the homicide investigation.

Flaherty’s True Green Plant Nursery has been serving the Blarney area for the last 100 years since Pader Flaherty, the nursery’s founder, built a greenhouse to grow plants that thrived in his native Ireland.

Through the years, operations expanded and, ten years ago, Pader’s grandson, Patrick, became majority owner of a business that is still family-run. Today, Flaherty’s is a major producer of shamrocks, supplying the entire state with the plant, especially for “the wearin’ of the green.”

Although rumors persist that all is not well, the family has maintained an outward calm, denying all rumors of a rift. The business seemed to be going well until Patrick Flaherty’s body was found in the pond at the nursery.

An Act of the Imagination by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Mar 4-20

An Act of the Imagination by the Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse, Mar 4-20

An Act of the Imagination
By Bernard Slade.

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Performances: March 4 – 20, 2016
March 4th at 8 pm, March 5th at 8 pm, March 6th at 2 pm
March 11th at 8 pm, March 12th at 2 pm and 8 pm, March 13th at 2 pm
March 18th at 8 pm, March 19th at 8 pm, March 20th at 2 pm

Description: Arthur is a successful mystery writer whose latest work has strangely turned into a romance–a vivid and adulterous romance. His son, his second wife and his editor marvel at the truthfulness of the work, remarkable since it is inconceivable that he could ever have had such an affair. Enter a woman, who is intent on blackmail and whose story is foolproof and airtight: it appears that Arthur has been trysting away from home. Cunning, deceit and ingenious plotting twist and turn this thriller into a surprise ending—is this real or an act of his imagination?

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