Murder For Two

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Book and Music by Joe Kinosian

Book and Lyrics by Kellen Blair

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BY JOE KINOSIAN

BY KELLEN BLAIR

DIRECTED BY JEREMY WEBB

PHOTOGRAPHY BY STOO METZ

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MURDER FOR TWO WAS ORIGINALLY PRODUCED IN NEW YORK BY JAYSON RAITT, BARBARA WHITMAN, STEVEN CHAIKELSON AND SECOND STAGE THEATRE. “MURDER FOR TWO” WORLD PREMIERE WAS PRESENTED ON MAY 12, 2011 AT CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER, CHICAGO, IL.; BARBARA GAINES, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, CRISS HENDERSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.“MURDER FOR TWO” WAS DEVELOPED FOR CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER BY RICK BOYNTON, CREATIVE PRODUCER.

CAST

Scott Pietrangelo

Marcus Moscowicz Jackson Seib The Suspects

CREATIVE TEAM

Jeremy Webb Director

Matt Lacas Assistant Director

Avery-Jean Brennan Musical Director

Vickie Marston Set Designer

Diego Cavedon Dias Costume Designer

Ingrid Risk Lighting Designer

Paul Morgan Donald Sound Designer

Liliona Quarmyne Movement Coach

Sarah O’Brien Stage Manager

Murder For Two is possibly the most challenging play of the year! Now that’s a big, bold statement! On the outside it’s an adorable musical comedy, single set, two actors. The reality is that it’s a casting rollercoaster. You need actors that play piano (and can really play!), can multi-role play AND who can banter with an audience, be mischievous and funny. That was our challenge this year - finding those two theatrical unicorns. If you are reading this, sitting in the Scotiabank Stage, we must have succeeded!

DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

When Andrea Boyd (at Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre) first pitched this script to me, she was also suggesting a co-production with Neptune Theatre. I was happy to work it into Neptune’s 2023-2024 Season, but especially because it meant I got to direct this summer as part of Festival Antigonish. It was delight to join this wonderful theatre company for another season.

Over the last 25 years I have acted, directed and created a lot of shows where an actor has to play multiple roles. It’s a methodical process that starts so very slow and accelerates all the way to opening night. This style of performance asks you to join us INSIDE the joke, with a nudge and wink. The creative team, cast and I are thrilled you returned to Neptune to be entertained.

Bravo to the Festival Antigonish for a delightful partnership!

Jeremy Webb Artistic Director Director of Murder For Two

CHAIRS’S MESSAGE

Welcome to Murder For Two - a zany, madcap, murder mystery with 14 different characters…starring only two actors. This show is co-produced with Festival Antigonish, a partnership that we are delighted to be involved in.

As the largest professional theatre in the region, it is important to us that we partner with sister organizations to pool resources and foster talent. If you’d like to support our artistic outreach work, consider becoming a donor today. Your donations don’t just help Neptune Theatre, they go back into the cultural economy of Nova Scotia.

Paul Laberge Chair, Neptune Theatre Foundation

Welcome to Murder for Two, I am confident you’ll be delighted by the extraordinary duo in this production. It’s a blend of zany humour and remarkable talent. We at Neptune Theatre were thrilled to have partnered with Festival Anntigonish to bring this musical mystery comedy to the Scotiabank Stage.

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Have a great time with tonight’s performance, you are in for a real treat!

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A Killer Musical Comedy

A zany blend of classic musical comedy and madcap mystery, this 90 minute whodunit is a highly theatrical duet loaded with killer laughs.

Officer Marcus Moscowicz is a small town policeman with dreams of making it to detective. One fateful night, shots ring out at the surprise birthday party of novelist Arthur Whitney and the writer is killed… fatally. With the nearest detective an hour away, Marcus jumps at the chance to prove his sleuthing skills—with the help of his silent partner, Lou. But whodunit? Did Dahlia Whitney, Arthur’s scene-stealing wife, give him a big finish? Is Barrette Lewis, the prima ballerina, the prime suspect? Did Dr. Griff, the overly-friendly psychiatrist, make a frenemy? Marcus has only a short amount of time to find the killer and make his name before the real detective arrives…and the ice cream melts!

Getting Away With Murder

Book and Music by Joe Kinosian Book and Lyrics by Kellen Blair

Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair met in the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop in 2008 and have been collaborating ever since.

Murder For Two , their award-winning murder mystery musical comedy, made its off-Broadway debut at Second Stage Uptown (before transferring to a commercial run at New World Stages) earning nominations from the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Awards. The show’s world premiere took place at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2011 and was awarded the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical in Chicago.

JOE KINOSIAN (BOOK AND MUSIC)

Joe is the co-recipient of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award recognizing Murder for Two as Best New Musical following its record-breaking run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Joe was also nominated for Best Actor as The Suspects. Murder for Two had its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Uptown, going on to a year-long run at New World Stages. Joe’s work with Kellen Blair has been showcased at The Kennedy Center, The York Theater, and on Broadway at the Theatre World Awards. Joe received the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the Harrington Award from the BMI Workshop. Joe also appeared in Dirty Blonde with Emily Skinner (Hangar Theater) and the NYC premiere of Dear Edwina Off-Broadway. kinosianandblair.com

KELLEN BLAIR (BOOK AND LYRICS)

Kellen is the Drama Desk nominated co-creator of Murder For Two (Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theatre and New World Stages. World premiere: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). The show is currently touring internationally (with productions in Tokyo, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and the UK). Kellen and co-writer Joe Kinosian are the recip- ients of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical Work in Chicago (2011) and the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers / Lorenz Hart Award (2013). Their work has been showcased on Broadway, the Kennedy Center, and theaters across the country; they’re currently developing an original musical farce with Second Stage Theatre in NYC. Kellen is also the lyricist of Scrooge in Love (42nd Street Moon, 2015 and 2016), for which he and composer Larry Grossman won the 2015 Bay Area Critics Award for Best Score. Updates, videos, song demos, and sheet music can be found at kinosianandblair.com.

SCOTT PIETRANGELO (HE/HIM)

ROLE: Marcus Moscowicz NEPTUNE: Debut OTHER THEATRE: Performer in Murder for Two (Festival Antigonish), The Hobbit (Grand Theatre, London), Dear Evan Hansen (Royal Alex, Toronto), Last Five Years (BroadwayWorld Award nominee), Songs for a New World (Rosebud, Alberta), Seussical (Silvermist, Niagara). Music Director for Rocky Horror (Randolph Theatre, Toronto), Anne & Gilbert (RuBarb, Moose Jaw), The Secret Garden (Factory Theatre, Toronto), Beauty and the Beast, Fiddler on the Roof (Capitol Theatre, Port Hope). OTHER: Artistic Director of SoundCrowd (soundcrowd.ca) and newchoir (newchoir.ca). Outside of theatre, Scott loves making music with his wonderful spouse, Alison, in their band, Cloud 9.

JACKSON SEIB (HE/HIM)

ROLE: The Suspects NEPTUNE: Debut OTHER THEATRE: Million Dollar Quartet (Lower Ossington Theatre, Capitol Theatre). Music direction credits include One Small Step (Toronto Youth Theatre), Something for the Buoys (Sapling), Snow White: the Panto (Stirling Festival Theatre), Cole (Stage Centre Productions), The Rocky Horror Show (Stirling Festival Theatre) and Cabaret (Ovation Productions). OTHER: Jackson would like to send love to his family, and offer his formal apologies to Neptune Theatre for any damage he may cause.

JEREMY WEBB

ROLE: Director NEPTUNE: The Play That Goes Wrong, Billy Elliot The Musical, Elf The Musical, Misery, The Rocky Horror Show, Alice in Pantoland, The Woman in Black, Fully Committed, Calendar Girls, Peter Pan, Little Thing, Big Thing, Noises Off, Cinderella, Shakespeare in Love, Mamma Mia!, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol UPCOMING: Murder For Two, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ACTOR: Beauty and the Beast, Great Expectations, Rexy!, The Comedy of Errors, The Wizard of Oz, Romeo & Juliet, The Producers, Beauty & The Beast (2007), Oliver, Annie, What The Butler Saw, Sylvia, Blood Brothers, Rumors, Sleeping Beauty OTHER THEATRE: The Hobbit, Stage Kiss, The Hound of The Baskervilles (Festival Antigonish,) 25 years of building a career in Nova Scotia theatre, including Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Fishing, Shakespeare On Trial, Broadway on Argyle St, Under Milk Wood (Off The Leash Creative.) OTHER: His BEST productions are his sons, Samuel & Dylan Offtheleashhfx.com

MATT LACAS

ROLE: Assistant Director NEPTUNE: Debut OTHER THEATRE: Hydrofoil Mystery (Theatre Baddeck), The New Canadian Curling Club, Robin Hood: The Great Escape, Brimful of Asha, Ben Hur (Festival Antigonish), Fabulous Lipitones (Miracle Theatre), Jungle Book North American Tour (Kidoons), Les Moutons (Corpus Dance Projects), Songs For A New World, Urinetown, Heathers, In The Heights (We Are Here Productions) OTHER: Big shoutout to the M42 team for the constant support and laughter throughout this process. Big love to Goose and the FamJam.

AVERY-JEAN BRENNAN (THEY/SHE)

ROLE: Musical Director NEPTUNE: The Rocky Horror Show (Merritt Award for Outstanding Musical Direction), Seeds of Change, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Oliver! OTHER THEATRE: Sweeney Todd (Sheridan College - Upcoming), Nobody Asked to Be Here (Sheridan College & Musical Stage Co.), Now What? (Musical Stage Co.), No Country for They/Thems (Potassium Theatre), The Pansy Craze (Toronto Fringe, LGBTQ Fringe Award Winner), King of Berlin (The Doppler Effect Productions), The Drowsy Chaperone, Spamalot (Prairie Skies), Broadway Lights (Victoria Symphony)

OTHER: Love & endless thanks to all involved in building this outrageous show, especially my hysterical piano nerds Scott & Jackson. You’ll love’em. @TheAveryJean on Instagram & TikTok.

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VICKIE MARSTON

ROLE: Set Designer NEPTUNE: Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Marion Bridge, Alice in Pantoland OTHER THEATRE: Communion, His Greatness, I Animal, The Realistic Jones (KAZAN Theatre Productions); The Gin Game, Driving Miss Daisy, Vigil, Educating Rita (Valley Summer Theatre); Fishing For Frank, The Net, Maritime Way of Life (Ship’s Company Theatre); Beauty Queen of Leenane (Set and Costumes) Proud (Set and Costumes) Outside Mullingar (Set and Costumes) Loved Our Fathers (Set) (Gros Morne Theatre Festival); Set design for In the Next Room, A Lie of the Mind, Romeo & Juliet, Under Milkwood, Costumes Henry 4, The Wolves, Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya; Set and Costumes for Cymbeline, The Sea, Ring Round The Moon (Theatre @ Grenfell MUN AWARDS: tVickie has won a Merritt Award for Outstanding Set Design for The Net and received a nomination for a Merritt Award for Vigil and His Greatness for Set Design.

DIEGO CAVEDON DIAS

ROLE: Costume Designer NEPTUNE: Debut OTHER THEATRE: Cakewalk, Jumbo, Team on the Hill, In the Wake of Wettlaufer (Assistant of Wardrobe - Blyth Festival); Anne of Green Gables (Cutter - Confederation Centre), The Hobbit (Head of Wardrobe), Adventures of Little Girl and the Wind, New Canadian Curling Club (Designer - Festival Antigonish); Shadows in the Cove (Designer - Mulgrave Road Theatre); Wind in the Willows, Antigone (Designer - Two Planks and a Passion); Newcomers (Designer - Halifax Theatre for Young People) and FTW (Designer - Written and produced by Zoë Comeau) OTHER: Thanks for the opportunity. Love to the cast, crew, family and friends.

INGRID RISK

ROLE: Lighting Designer NEPTUNE: Lighting Design: The Last Wife, Noises Off, Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary (EFT) Snake in the Grass, Small Things (MRT). Stage Management: Red, In a World Created by a Drunken God, Snake in the Grass, Bingo!, Drowning Girls (DMV). OTHER THEATRE: Currently Production Manager at Festival and Theatre Antigonish. Ingrid has had a richly varied career working and touring with many leading Atlantic theatre companies. AWARDS: Ingrid is the recipient of several Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Awards and has received many nominations for her work as a lighting designer. TRAINING: York University

THE BROADWAY MUSICAL

Book by Terrance McNally

Music and Lyrics by David Yazback

CREATIVE TEAM

PAUL MORGAN DONALD

ROLE: Sound Designer NEPTUNE: Debut OTHER THEATRE: New Canadian Curling Club (Festival Antigonish); Einstein’s Gift (Citadel Theatre); As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing (FreeWill Shakespeare Festival); Urinetown (Grindstone Theatre); All Shook Up, Canada 151! Buddy! (Mayfield Theatre); Die-Nasty (Varscona Theatre) FILM/TV: W(or)K (Brocolowe Productions) The Wise Fool, Aurora (Shiny Carr Pictures)

LILIONA QUARMYNE (SHE/HER)

ROLE: Choreographer NEPTUNE: Debut SELECTED CHOREOGRAPHY: The Movements (Zuppa Theatre), Washington Black (Disney), Shifting Verse (Prismatic Arts Festival), Intersect (Mayworks Kjipuktuk), Resonances of a Warrior Boy (various); SELECTED ACTING: The New Canadian Curling Club (Festival Antigonish), Night of the Bat (Villains Theatre); The Movements (Zuppa Theatre); SELECTED DANCE: Whodunit?! (Votive Dance), Where Dance and Music Meet (Mocean Dance). OTHER: Shout out to so many who create magic in the hardest of circumstances! It’s been a joy to be on this ride.

SARAH O’BRIEN (SHE/HER)

ROLE: Stage Manager NEPTUNE: Little Thing, Big Thing OTHER THEATRE: New Canadian Curling Club, Robin Hood and the Great Escape (Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre), Cymbeline (George Brown Theatre School), Our Town (Theatre Rusticle), Butcher (Theatre Kingston), Watching Glory Die (Mulgrave Road Theatre), The First Stone (New Harlem Productions/ GCTC), Fearful Symmetries (ProArteDanza), Assemblée Internationale 2017 & 2023 (Canada’s National Ballet School), BLOCKED (workshop production) WYRD Productions AWARDS: Merritt Awards (TNS) 2011, 2013. OTHER: This adventure is for Joyce, so good to have you here, and Duncan, for the unwavering support.

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Réjeanne & Robert Bell

David Zitner 

Robert & Beverly Harrison 

Anna & Lex Stuart 

Anonymous 

Linda & Alain Pirard 

Ms Lisa Rounsefell 

Harold Robertson & Liz Townsend 

Margaret and Gordon Davis 

Keith MacKinnon 

Jim & Lillian Smithson

Anne Sweeney 

Ron O’Flaherty 

Melissa & Level Chan

JIill Rafuse 

Joanna Holland 

Charlene Milner 

Mr James Ballinger 

Ms Leslie MacDonald 

Mr Paul Dennison

Prue & Mike Hansen

Mr Rene Lavoie

David & Jennifer Smith

Marion D. Kennedy

Barbara Kanellakos

Jon & Susan Bekkers

Diane Decoste

Martha Paul

Rick Power

R. Keith Sherwood

Patricia Murray

Barbara Smith

Margaret David

Mark Singer

Margaret Kendall

Sheila Pulsifer

Eileen Brennan

Marcelle Comeau

Mr Charles Baxter

Ms Margaret Anderson

Lorraine Campbell

Mrs Laureen Rushton

Leon Major

Gordon MacDonald

Mr David Greene

Daniel Peach

Ms Barbara Atkinson

Joyce Saunders

Wendy McCallum

Margaret Pearson

Denis Connor

Nabha Shetty

Cecilia Ramsay

Leslie Single

Joanne MacKinnon

$100

- $249

Mel & Myrna Baird

Myrla Drysdale

Edward B. Chase

Sara Kinley

Marguerite & Hector Muise

In Memory of Rev. David Ferguson

Roderick & Valerie Macdonald

Edward & Barbara Rafuse

David & Anne Morison

Lorna J Carter

Callie & Alfred Bent & The Bentlea & Sons Charitable Foundation

Linda Cummings

Angus & June Chisholm

Mr & Mrs Ian Fraser

Rick and Marion Kelly

Brookes & Fiona Diamond

George & Shirley Mencher

Alan & Laurie Cruess

Stephen E.A. Thompson

Roderick & Carolyn Buhr

Mrs Michelle Ryan

Ms Judith Beaton 

Mr Ronald Brunton 

Gloria & Albert Dunklee 

John & Marilyn Edgecombe 

Jerry & Cheryl Inman

Ms Judy Haley 

Anonymous 

Mary & Ron Macnab

Ms Michelle Paon 

Jolene Pattison 

Mr Thomas Sheppard 

Mary Anne Nee 

Ann Crowell 

Donna L. McGrath 

Anne MacKay 

Tim & Kimber McNabb 

Leslie Burrows 

Robert Van Wart 

Lynne Donahoe 

Gary A Miller 

Chris Lightfoot 

Mrs Sue Skerrett 

David & Sherri Topple 

Joe Burke 

Jane Scott 

James Keast 

Rob Fennell & Sally Shaw 

Rose Scott-Lincourt 

Mr Paul Garneau 

Debbie Richardson 

Margaret Chauvin

Mr David Curlett

Mr Blair D. Jackson

Mr Joseph Kanary

Errol & Anne Hughson

Ms Lynn Stewart

Mr David Black

Anonymous

Ann Dent

David & Jacqueline

Mccaughan

Catherine Folinsbee

Betty Buckley

Mrs Margaret Therrien

Phil O’Hara

Patricia & Steven O’Halloran

Lynn Thornton

Fran Hill

Valli Moore

Sarah DeWolfe

Karen Campbell

Pam Maloney

Patrica Arab

Carolyn Sisley

James Potter

Deana Macintosh

Kerry Lynk

Lisa Zwicker

Mrs Beverley Hardie

Elissa Barnard

Karen Peck

Carolyn Vickers

Clary Croft

Jeanette Fleming

Joey Marchand

Lisa Bugden

Wendy Hopkins

Ms Maureen Hubley

Marlene Johns

Janice Mah

Ms Lois Murray

Ms Ciel Crosby

Judy Porter

Duncan Miller

James Harrod & Patricia Reis

Vicky Levack

Deanna Furlotte

Jo-Anne Embree

Cheryl Theriault

Matthew Salisbury

Pam Beyea

Bessy Nikolaou

Edward Arab

April Hannah

Rebecca Mackay

Leann Ridgeway Brenda

Macdougall

Natalie Hooch-Antink

Julie Chisholm

Cheryl Waterfield

Donald Shiner

Peggy Gregory

Steve Beeler

Mr Sean Murray

Jessica Colburn

Mr & Mrs John Canning

Burns Anderson

Mr Jim White

Mr & Mrs Todd Sears

Terry Roane

Mrs Annabel Bruce

Mrs Lois West

Paul Broad

Mrs Jane MacNeill

Denise Brownell

Mr Tim Wilson

Mr Paul Bailey

Mrs Allyn Sullivan

Ms Kathie Swenson

Ms Lisa Brown

Dr Bernard Perey

Mrs Ashleigh Bonnell

Ms Jane Fraser

Ms Nancy Murray

Ms Nadine MacKay

Sherry Webb

Sheri Streisel

Mrs Tiffany Clayton

Naomi STewart

Sabino Urciuoli

Mrs Christine McDowell

Ms Cindy Donohue

Ms Lesley Hartman

Meghan Milloy

Mr Edmond Chiasson

Kent Ringler

Timothy Isenor

Mrs Mickey Barbour

Ms Lee MacLeod-Archer

Paul Young

Lyon Brumm

Mr Peter Conrod

Jacklyn Geldart

Ms Melissa Corkum

Mr Christopher Leonard

Dr Doug Sinclair

Mr & Mrs Tom Kift

Mr Brent Wright

Kaylon Fraser

Ms Barbara Bryant

Adam Brown

Shawn Cleary

Gaye Wishart

Anne Long

Erin Sephton

Cassandra Miller

Jeanne Chiasson

Susan Laing

Kristin Brulé

Jeanne Desveaux

Jacklynn Pidduck

Jill McNall

Wilma Mays

Wendy Bowers

Lola Doucet

Lisa Murphy

Sonya Aikens

Jim Mills

Cassondra Padfield

Lisa Ramsay

Erica Moore

MacQuarries Pharmasave

Janet Carver

Darcy Fuller

Stephanie Rice

Laurel Brown

Carolyn Phillips

John Michael Brewer

Peter Mancini

Doug Tupper

Denise Penwell

Laurie Brown

Stewart Young

Rod Wilson

Jordan Willett

Joanna Green

Matthew Dumaresque

Mary Lou Acton

Jeffrey Hynick

Elizabeth Murphy

Melissa Andrew

Wendy McDonald

Brenna MacDonald

Kathy Anthony

ADDITIONAL STAR DONORS

We want to thank and recognize our longterm donors for their extended giving.

 five to nine years of support

 10 to 14 years of support  15 to 19 years of support

 20 or more years of support

Ian & Gail Logie

Trinda L. Ernst

Teana Stewart

Mildred Carr-Shrum

Susan Barnes

Mr John Gillis

Anne & Michael Harrop

Alma & Roy Hayward

Melda & Kristin Langille

Stephanie Connidis

In Memory of Allan Shlosssberg 

Alison McDonald 

James Barker 

Mark Tipperman & Lorna Williamson 

Wilma Mays 

Judith Graham 

Pauline Amirault 

Janet Carver 

Carolyn Mills 

Danette Foster 

Paul Brousseau

Catherine Cameron 

Mr Philip Fraser 

Erika Stokes 

Darryl & Carolyn Steeves 

Imagination Theatre 

Dr Alastair Saunders 

Mrs Joy Williams 

Ms Jean Millar 

Deborah Gass 

Sally Camus 

Warren Ryan 

Mr & Mrs Rob Mabe 

Dr Maureen Nolan 

Despite the staff’s extensive efforts to avoid errors and omissions, mistakes can occur. If your name was omitted, listed incorrectly, or misspelled, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We would appreciate being notified of any errors at 902-429-7300.

SPONSORS & PARTNERS

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FOUNDATIONS

JASON ROTH AND CHERYL STEADMAN ROTH

THEATRE PARTNERS

TIM MARGOLIAN AND DAWN FRAIL FOUNDATION

WINDSOR FOUNDATION

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

Nova Scotia Teachers Union

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