Moose Murders
by Arthur Bicknell

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Highlights

90 mins Present Day Features Children Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

Synopsis

Mystery/Farce / 4m 5f / Unit setThe wealthy heirs of a wealthy but ailing old man named Sidney Holloway have purchased the Wild Moose Lodge in the Adirondacks as a place for daddy to live out his last days.

During an innocuous game of "murder" suggested by one of the clan mousey young Lorraine Holloway is murdered for real.

Who done it?

Could it have been the legendary "Butcher Moose" which haunts the mountains?

Or is it a member (or members) of the eccentric Holloway family itself?

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Characters

Character
Howie Keene

40-45, Snooks’ husband, sings ok, blind, warm, gentle, good comic timing.

Joe Buffalo Dance

50s, a mock American Indian.

Nurse Dagmar

30 and over, big, powerful, beautiful, gorgeous body, exotic.

Hedda Holloway

Lead, 50-55, impressive WASP matriarch, the “eye of the storm,” always in control, disarmingly eccentric.

Nelson Fay

Lead, 30s handsome, ingratiating, manipulative yet appears trustworthy.

Stinky Holloway

18-20, Hedda’s son, quite a bit grotesque, “in lust” with his mother, should be physically striking; chubby or very skinny.

Lauraine Holloway Fay

30s, Nelson’s wife, plain and not very bright, deadpan.

Gay Holloway

12, Hedda’s youngest child, precocious tap dancer; a Shirly Temple clone.

Snooks Keene

Lead, 40-45, half of “The Singing Keenes,” off-key and overly enthusiastic, tough, funny.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 2010
Binding Paperback
Edition Illustrated
Pages 100
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573619380
ISBN-10 0573619387
LCCN 84235432
LCC PS3552.I32 M6 1984
DCC 812/.54

Moose Murders is a American comedy play written by Arthur Bicknell and published by Samuel French in New York (2010).

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