The Butler Did It, Singing
by Ole Kittleson, Tim Kelly, Arne Christiansen

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Synopsis

This is a delightful, audience pleasing, one-set, musical spoof based on Mr. Kelly's enormously popular hit The Butler Did It .

Miss Maple, a flaky society dowager, invites a pack of zany detective writers to a spooky house on an isolated island and forces them to impersonate their fictional sleuths.

For entertainment, she arranges some "classic" touches - a hairy face at the window, the threat of an escaped lunatic, no communications with the outside world.

What she did not arrange was the body on the sitting room carpet!

It's up to seedy Chandler Marlowe to solve the bizarre case and he makes a side-splitting mess of it!

Ultimately, everyone has a guilty secret to confess and the real killer turns out to be the least suspected.

The happy score is dotted with likeable and show-stopping hits: "Murder, Mystery and Mayhem," "The Moth to the Flame," "Cherchez La Femme," "I Know My Stuff," and, of course, "The Butler Did It," among others.

Production demands are extremely modest and the cast of ten can be expanded if desired.

Characters

Character
Rita

A social secretary

Miss Maple

A well-known society hostess

Father White

A mystery writer

Chandler Marlowe

Another

Louis Croissant

Another

Rick

Another

Laura

Another

Peter Flimsey

Another

Charity

Another

Servants

Chorus (Optional)

Haversham

A young housemaid, an ex-convict

Publication

ISBN-13 9780874403770
ISBN-10 0874403774

The Butler Did It, Singing is a play written by Ole Kittleson and published by Concord Theatricals .

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