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General Comments:
"The humor was great and so much of it played right into the story
line. Those attending seemed to pick up on all of them."
K. Melton, FBC Maryville
"Our church loves these! I had no
idea if people would even come, but they did and are always asking for
more." K. Rodden,
Eastside Community Church
"Audience
participation is great—especially by getting some up on stage with the
actors. And it’s also fun that the audience can question the
suspects and make their own deduction about the murderer." C.
Davelaar, East Martin Christian High School
"This was awesome!
It was great to have a script that I did not have to go through and
edit for the youth to present to the church. The youth had a
great time putting it on and the audience had a great time watching
and being involved. You do great work!"
M. Koenig, St. Paul's Lutheran Church
"The youth have
done dinner theaters for eight years and a lot of people said it was
the best one yet!" D. Clements, Calvary Temple
Creative Things Churches Have Done:
For each of our characters, we did
individual photos. Using Photoshop, we generated photos that
captured their character. For example, we dressed our Shannon
character as a waitress and photoshopped her into a restaurant holding
a tray with spaghetti and a bottle of "Suds-R-Us". Those we used
the night of the presentation to build on the character descriptions.
We also borrowed a popcorn machine and made fresh popcorn and passed
it out as our guests arrived.
FBC Maryville
We had
movie type food – hot dogs with toppings using the characters from the
play – popcorn – candy bars - chips. Eastside Community
Church
We rolled out a red
carpet and had a runway for our guests to be escorted on into the
building; we announced each guest/couple; we gave trophies to audience
participators, we dressed up as wealthy actors/actresses; we decorated
the tables with black table clothes and tried to create an atmosphere
of “Hollywood” – we played that song as guests entered.
Beulah Baptist Church
Flash and the two
optional characters (Jo and detective) took care of the crime scene:
they taped the outline of Cameron’s body, fingerprinted the poisonous
drink, roped off the area with yellow “caution” tape, etc. and took
away Cameron’s body on a stretcher. The audience seemed to
really enjoy watching that. For background music: movie themes from
all types of movies from the last 40 years East Martin
Christian High School
We set everything up
like a real Hollywood scene set and we created a massive Hollywood
sign that we hung overhead. The lighting that we used
added a ton to the evening. Calvary Temple
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