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'Polter-Heist' delivers hilarious fun

| September 25, 2024 1:00 AM

Out of the Box Entertainment is at it again with another hilarious murder mystery.

"Polter-Heist Live" is an interactive murder mystery comedy by Tony Schwartz and Marylou Ambrose. The show opens with music from the Popeye Social Club with Steve Bennett on mandolin and vocals, Darlene Mossman on Bass and vocals, and Jim Pletsch on slide guitar and vocals.

Following the concert, the audience is invited to enjoy the antics of the cast where everyone seems to be up to heist something, including stealing a ghost.

In the play, Madame Zelda Von Spookum (Darlene Mossman) of the Boogeyman Outreach Organization and others attempt to make contact with a ghost "living" at the Mouldering Pines Inn, owned by squabbling innkeepers Jim and Phyllis Lodge (James "Jamie" Clark and Yvonne Clark respectively. Also in the cast are FBI agents Fox Smoulder (Justin Clark) and Dana Scullery (Beth Sturgeon), Professor Lionel Specter ( Butch Lee), and Janet from Another Planet ( Linda Cassella).

Performances will be held Sept. 27-28, at The Roxy Theater, 120 S. Washington, Newport; Oct. 12 at the Blanchard Community Center, 685 Rusho Lane, Blanchard; Oct. 18-20 at the Cutter Theater, 302 Park St., Metaline Falls, Wash.; Oct. 25, at the Coeur d'Alene Shrine Club, 1250 W. Lancaster, Hayden; and Oct. 26, Create Arts Center, 900 Fourth St. Newport.

For times and tickets, go online to outoftheboxentertainment.org.

Out of the Box Entertainment is a 501c3 nonprofit community theater.