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           THE CASE OF THE MUSIC
                   GUILD MURDERS


                                                SYNOPSIS
When a third Music Guild director is found floating face down in the nearby park lagoon,  Detective Mike O’Hara with the assistance of his boss, the Chief of Police, undertake to bring the murderer to justice. The investigation is confused by the fact that the victim has been shot, stabbed, strangled and  poisoned. The brutality of the murder causes the police to suspect that the murderer will be found within the Guild’s stable of sopranos.
                          Running Time: Approximately 30-35 minutes

​      (Essentially a unit set, with the desk and chairs moved slightly)



                                                 Cast of Characters
Chief of Police Nick Tracey    
                                A serious and competent police officer   


Det. Mike O’Hara        
   A disheveled detective in the mode of Humphrey Bogart or Peter Falk

Katherine Heartburn        
                    An actress who closely resembles Katherine Hepburn
                                           doing a "screwball comedy"

Marian Monroe
                  A beautiful actress who might easily be mistaken Monroe                                                                                 
                                       — dumb like a fox and very likable

Gertrude Torrents
                                A Gertrude Lawrence type actress — 
                                A beautiful, talented, witchy actress