Lincoln Hills Players
Tech Rehearsal & Production Staff
Lighting Design Tech / Bob Elo
Lighting Tech / Ron Baugh
Set Build / Steve Gillespie, Craig Stults, Bill Becker & Paul Carroll
Set Design & Artist Painter / Wendy-Jean Iannico
Set Build Painters / Linda Wilds-Beltz, Jennifer Carroll, Karen Hardage, Terry Schultze, Molly Sjordal, Jan Kearney & Laurie Westsmith
Sound Board Design / Jim Moon
Sound FX/Music Design / Ann Stults
Sound FX Tech / Ron Peck
Sound Assistant / Chuck Koehler
Mic Techs / Sharon Lefkov, Lynn Sotir, Kathy Fernandes, Barbara Swerdlow, Julie Knapp
Costumers / Jennifer Carroll, Linda Wilds-Beltz
Prop Master / Joan Reiss
Prop Assistant / Backstage Tech / Cat Bain
Curtain Control Tech / Terry Schultze
Media Publicity / Doug Brown
Graphics Design & Program / Ann Stults
Cast of Death by Chocolate!
Julie Africa / Director
Ken Reiss / Assistant Director
Craig Stults / Producer
Jane Patton / Lady Riverdale
Angela Blas / Dyslexia
Richard Fitzmaurice / John Stone
Mary Brown / Margaret Daniels
Paul Carroll / Ralph Deadwood
Joe Nichols / Alfred Mellox
David Africa / Edith Chiles
Karen Tricomo / Sweet Pea Meadowbrook
Rudy Schneider / Dick Simmering
Doug Brown / Ed Parlor
Jim Walker / Henry Meadowbrook
Death By Chocolate
by Paul Freed
Directed by Julie Africa
It takes place at a newly renovated Health Resort, but people are dropping like flies! It’s up to the manager and the owner to find out if, in fact it is a sinister box of chocolates or a sinister employee. There are dark secrets, funny characters, and lots of amusing comedy bits.
So, if you’re into having a lot of fun, please audition, which will be September 14th and 15th times and locations for audition will be sent out in due time. The production will be November 17-19th.
Character Analysis
Lady Riverdale: Owner of Lady Riverdale Chocolates and new owner of the Meadowbrook Health Resort. She is pompous, high-society type except when occasionally required to use a "vicious street shrewdness" to survive (which serves as a hint of her mysterious past).
Dyslexia: Lady Riverdale's assistant and long suffering secretary on loan to John Stone.
John Stone: The new manager of the Resort (and how he got there, no one knows). He is quick-witted and finds almost everything absurd (a basic cynical sort of person).
Ralph Deadwood: The Gym Manager and all-around cad. Knowing all about Lady Riverdale's past, he has used that knowledge to get whatever he can from her.
Margaret Daniels: A very attractive woman who is trying to write a feature story on the Resort for a leading gossip magazine.
Alfred Mellox: he is in charge of the janitorial staff and maintenance for the Resort (a position given to him only because he was the trusted companion of the late Henry Meadowbrook). he is very stiff, rigid and typical "butler-type" and may have a British accent.
Edith Chiles: The Head Chef (or would be that be, "Cheerless"?). She is a rather large, buxom sort of woman with a jovial personality and New England matronly manner (whatever that means).
"Sweetpea" Meadowbrook: daughter of the late Henry Meadowbrook. Extremely overweight (fat suit will be provided), she seems to be trying to eat herself to death because of the trauma of losing her father. Her mouth is always full of food and no one can understand her without the help of Alfred Meilox.
Dick Simmering: The Aerobics Instructor. Always garbed in a jogging outfit (or dressed like Richard Simmons), he is bright, hyperactive, effeminate person.
Anne: The Resort Nurse who tends to panic at the slightest injury.
Ed Parlor: Guest of Lady Riverdale's. A writer with a cheery disposition and enjoys the opportunity to try and solve the mysterious deaths by chocolate.
Henry Meadowbrook: The Founder of the Meadowbrook Heath Resort. He is never seen since he dies in the opening moments of the play.