Hotshot film producer Rex Youngblood hosts a dinner for local actors and potential investors, 6 p.m., March 13.
It’s a chance for a big break into show business. Things being what they are, it’s also a chance to solve a murder.
“It will be up to the audience to grill suspects and find out who did it,” said Patience Beer, who wrote the murder mystery production, “Murder and Hospital Hijinx.”
The dinner theater at Paint Creek Country Club, 2375 Stanton Road in Lake Orion, is the main fundraiser for Clarkston Area Optimists Club, members of which serve as hosts and actors in the show.
“It’s always fun,? said Optimist Andrea Schroeder. ‘It’s great, getting the audience into it.?
“It’s the funniest ever,” said Jim Evans, Optimist.
The show is interactive, and starts immediately, Beer said.
“From the moment people come in the door ? casting director work the crowd, looking for sexy-nurse tryouts, men and women, to sing a song,” she said.
Guests come up with solutions to the case, prizes awarded for best and most original.
This is Beer’s seventh show, her third for the Optimists.
“It’s my contribution to support their work,” she said.
The fundraiser supports the club’s youth programs, including Alpha and Junior Optimist clubs in Clarkston schools, Tri-Star basketball tournament, Oratorical scholarship contest, Respect for Law, Junior Golf Tournament, Essay scholarship contest, and other events.
“Hundreds of kids participate in Optimist programs,” Evans said.
Tickets are $55, and includes entertainment, dinner, open beer and wine bar, silent auction, and raffle. For more information, call 248-622-6096.