Auditions Announced for CRAB CAKES AND MURDER at Loveland Stage Company

LSC is partnering with NEST’s Murder Mystery Fundraiser on April 12th, 2024. The play we are casting is called CRAB CAKES AND MURDER by Micheal Druce. [Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Denver, Colorado.]

Auditions will be held Sunday, Feb 18th from 6 – 9 pm, and will consist of cold readings from the script. No preparation necessary.

Location: Loveland Stage Company – 111 S 2nd St. (Rt 48), Loveland, Ohio 45140

Summary:
During a surprise storm, Captain Savage Raines goes missing at sea.  The wreckage of the Half Shell is found, but with no sign of the commercial fisherman, Sheriff Sandy Shoals assumes Captain Raines is dead.  That wouldn’t be a surprise considering what a hateful codger he was.  After all, who else would name his twin daughters Misery and Calamity?!

The sheriff finds the incident especially curious since the shipwreck was just a day after Savage announced his retirement and revealed plans to divvy up Peg Legg Seafoods.  And since those business plans minimized his wife Peggy’s role in the company and largely cut out the rest of the family with the exception of his bootlicking twin daughters, everyone had a motive for sabotage.

Reeling in audience members to help sift through the evidence, Sheriff Shoals casts a wide net to try to catch the guilty party.

Cast of Characters:

• DUNGENESS CRABBE ……….Captain Savage Raines’s sister; married to Stone Crabbe; well-meaning but whiny
• PEGGY LEGG-RAINES ………..Captain Raines’s wife; sardonic and straightforward; all business
• STONE CRABBE……………….the captain’s brother-in-law; clueless owner of Crabbe’s Crab Cakes
• DECADENCE RAINES ………..youngest daughter of Peggy and Savage Raines; independent, matter-of-fact, and honest to a fault
• C.D. LAWYER ………………….shady attorney and chairman of the board of directors for Peg Legg Seafoods
• SHERIFF SANDY SHOALS …..new to the job; nobody’s fool
• CALAMITY RAINES ……………another Raines daughter; selfish and shallow; Misery’s fraternal twin
• MISERY RAINES ………………another daughter; superficial and self-centered; Calamity’s fraternal twin
• CAPTAIN SAVAGE RAINES …..family patriarch; owner of Peg Legg Seafoods
• HUMP DAY ……………………..mysterious harbormaster

You can sign up for an audition slot at www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4BA9AD2DABFBC34-47919268-lscnest#/.