September 8 & 9, 2023
5:30pm VIP Reception | 6:00pm Cocktails | 7:00pm Showtime
$75 VIP, $50 regular | Save on Groups of 8+
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre’s MURDER BY THE FALLS event has served as the venerable non-profit’s season kickoff fundraiser every fall for many years, helping to pay for the upcoming slate of productions.
MURDER BY THE FALLS takes place the weekend after Labor Day, with performances on Friday September 8 and Saturday, September 9, 2023.
Admission is $50 for General Admission and $75 for VIP admission. Group discounts available when you buy 8 or more tickets!
MURDER BY THE FALLS offers a unique and entertaining experience. Audience members arrive at CVLT (40 River Street in historic downtown Chagrin Falls) at 6 PM, to enjoy a reception featuring a cash wine/beer bar, and hors d'oeuvres in the theater’s lobby and vestibule. VIP ticket holders are invited to arrive at 5:30 for early sign-in, as well as complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres in the Sears River Room on CVLT’s second floor and throughout the event. The play itself begins at 7:00 PM.
Audience members will leave the theater during intermission to search for hidden clues in the windows of Chagrin Falls stores, and to gain additional information from live actors stationed on the street. After submitting their solutions, audience members will return to the auditorium for the second act, in which the killer will be revealed and the winners of prizes and free CVLT tickets will be announced.
This year’s MURDER BY THE FALLS play, the 34rd edition, is entitled Nailed! A Murderous Manicure Mystery. The script was written by Rich Stimac with Andrew Rothman. Emily Stack is directing the production.
The dastardly plot takes place at Betty Bawdy’s Nail Emporium, a fictional Chagrin Falls manicure salon where nobody likes the owner and everyone from the pedicurist to the cops might have had it in for her. When Betty fails to arrive at her own shop's grand re-opening party, everyone becomes a suspect.
Starring:
ABBY LONGSHORE as "Bella Buxton"
KATE WILLIAMS-BERNARDO as "Precious Meddle"
LISA FREEBAIRN-TARR as "Petulia Henderson"
JESSIE POLLAK as "Dimples Dixon"
MAUREEN BASISTA as "Stacy Santiago"
STEVEN R. TIDERMAN as "Denny the Delivery Guy"
DOUGLAS R. VANEK as "Magnifico the Magnificent"
JULIAN KRUYNE as "Scoop Gutenberg III"
ANDREW BANGHART as "Cameron Mann"
JIM MARZULLO as "Inspector Gotcha"
BRENDA REDMOND as "Detective Ketchum"
DON BERNARDO as "Danno Bookem"
JAN JONES as "Mayor's Assistant"
ALESSIA CARROSSELLIA as "Lydia Lacquer"
CHRISTOPHER WUEHLER as "Martin Bancroft"
JORDON MATTHEW as "Chris Clandestino"
MURDER BY THE FALLS 2023 is made possible through the generosity of:
- Unto Others Foundation
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Missy & Stan Davis
- The Glass Asylum
- First Federal Bank
- Hamlet Retirement
- Emily & Matt Honsa-Hicks
- Jan Jones
- JAW Renovations
- Libby Larrabee
- Vintage Wine Distributor
- Harris Realty Co., Inc.
with special thanks to Chessie's Salon