Murder Mystery sold out this weekend, but adding a third weekend, Feb. 3-4

HUNTINGTON — Murder and Merriment’s ski resort-themed murder mystery, “Silent Night, Deadly Night!” at Heritage Station is being held over for one more weekend at Heritage Station, 210 11th St.

 The first two weekends, Jan. 20-21 and Jan. 27-28 are both sold out, but limited tickets are now on sale for 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3-4.
 

Call 304-523-7526 for reservations.Dinner is by A Taste From Above. Tickets are $35 each. Seating is limited and will sell out. Guests are encouraged to wear their favorite ski sweaters and apparel.
 

Written by George Snider III, and and presented in cooperation with the Heritage Station Shop Owners’ Association, “Silent Night, Deadly Night!”  is a wintry tale of murder, greed, and deceit set at a mountain ski lodge, the Heritage Ski Resort where an eccentric group of guests are staying.

After a blizzard strikes and an avalanche closes the only road leading down the mountain, the resort owner is found brutally stabbed, and the suspects find themselves snowed in — unable to escape the wiles and deductions of mystery writer and amateur detective, Ellery King.

The eight characters include: U.S. snowboarding champ, Skylar Mathison; teenage downhill ski sensation and spoiled brat Bunny Collins (who demands bottled water to wash her hair); Joanie Collins, a famous romance novelist; Carson Powell, a washed-up B-Western movie actor played by Snider.

Snider said the murder mysteries, filled with over-the-top and despicable characters that utter a lot of improv lines, have been a lot of fun for himself and a slew of regional actors who he’s tapped to help play roles in such past productions as “The Murdered Mistress,” Marriage, Mob, & Murder,” “Murder at the Opera,” and “A Murderous Reunion,” an ’80s-themed murder mystery in which an obnoxious former class president gets murdered.
This cast includes many familiar faces on the Tri-State theater scene such as: Kendra Egnor, Bill Tussey, Josh Taylor, Sarah Diamond Burroway, Brian Cook, Ashley Taylor, Kennedy Snider, Greg Kiser, and George R. Snider III.

“Every show has been just a real pleasure because we have a lot of talented people in the area,” Snider said. “What’s been difficult for a lot of people is they have jobs and lives and families and so do they have time for the six to eight weeks to rehearse a full show? Maybe not, so with these murder mysteries you have one cast meeting and you do the show. You don’t have to memorize length scripts and a different person is the murderer every night so it’s fresh and edgy and fun for actors.”