“Clue: Live on Stage!” at the Adler Theatre -- April 1.
Wednesday, April 1, 7:30 p.m.
Adler Theatre, 136 East Third Street, Davenport IA
Described by DC Metro Theatre Arts as a mystery comedy with “a dizzy, stimulating joy that makes it a whole lot of fun,” the movie and board-game adaptation Clue: Live On Stage! brings its national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on (fitting) April Fool's Day, the show a farcical riot that, according to Broadway World, “creates one laugh after another – and a series of 'Ah-hah!'s – as the audience is led on a merry chase.”
With its script a collaborative effort between Sandy Rustin, Eric Pryce, Tony-nominated Little Shop of Horrors performer Hunter Foster, and Jonathan Lynn, the latter of whom directed the beloved 1985 film version of Clue, a classic board game is brought to life in Clue: Live On Stage! In the show, on a dark and stormy night, six unique guests are invited to a dinner party thrown by an anonymous host who calls himself Mr. Boddy. The visitors are given aliases – Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet – and although they're discouraged from revealing personal information, it is soon discovered that all of them have fallen victim to the same blackmailer, who happens to be their very host for the evening. With the mansion's butler, maid, and cook also mixed up in the outrageous action, Mr. Boddy eventually turns up dead, and what follows is a madcap, slapstick evening full of murder, mystery, and laughs as those who remain seek to puzzle out the culprit amongst a gaggle of possible criminals.
In addition to the 1985 Clue, the stage version's Jonathan Lynn has directed such movies as the Oscar-winning My Cousin Vinny, Nuns on the Run, Greedy, Trial & Error, The Whole Nine Yards, and The Fighting Temptations. Sandy Rustin is one of the “most produced playwrights” in America (American Theatre Magazine) who made her Broadway debut with her comedy The Cottage. and whose newest play The Suffragette’s Murder is a winner of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and Denver Center Theatre Company’s Women’s Voices Fund. In addition to his career as a writer, Eric Price was the assistant to 21-time Tony Award winner Hal Prince and worked with him for many years on the development of new plays and musicals. And in addition to his performing career, Hunter Foster directed the off-Broadway musical The Other Josh Cohen and was named Director of the Year by the Wall Street Journal.
The national tour of Clue: Live on Stage! lands in Davenport on April 1, admission to the 7:30 p.m. performance starts at $48, and tickets are available by calling (800)745-3000 and visiting DavenportLive.com/the-adler-theatre.
