Murder Mystery Scripts
by Marylou Ambrose & Tony Schwartz
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Our murder mystery script packages are great for dinner theater shows and school or church fundraisers!
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Since 1999 Tonylou Productions has been providing service of excellence in the art of dinner theater shows and quality murder mystery script packages. Over the years we've developed tried and proven murder mystery scripts and formats for production that ensure that our shows, and your shows, will be of a caliber your clientele have come to expect and appreciate. We pride ourselves on providing customers with the best-quality products and personal service. You can easily order from us using our online catalog. And, of course, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us and we'll be glad to answer them.
Break a leg!
Tony & Marylou
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Any problems regarding your download, please contact us at: tonylou@ptd.net or 570-470-8713
Our Scripts
"Trouble at the Tropicabana!"
Our "I Love Lucy" Spoof!
Take a walk down memory lane with Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel when your theater company presents Trouble at the Tropicabana. You’ll enjoy fine food, tropical drinks, and Latin music and dancing at Ricky’s club tonight, as he gets ready to sign a contract with movie mogul heiress Celia B. DeMilo. Is Celia who she claims to be? Will Lucy and Ethel ruin Ricky’s big chance with another of their harebrained schemes to get into show business? What’s the notorious gangster Mr. Big doing at Ricky’s club? And who committed the murder? The murder? That’s right—the murder!
This is one our our biggest crowd-pleasers ever! This show contains all the zanyness of an "I Love Lucy" episode, as well as singing, dancing by Ricky and his club girls, and conga lines and mambo lessons performed by your audience!
The cast includes 3 men and 4 women in speaking roles. An additional 3 women in non-speaking roles round out the cast.
The script package includes set design instructions, music suggestions and where to purchase the performance tracks (karaoke), directions for constructing the Carmen Miranda fruit hats (pictured to the right), and much, much more!
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Purchase a Complete "Trouble at the Tropicabana" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
"Murder On the Oriental Rug"
spoofing Agatha Christie novels and a whole lot more!
Move over -- or roll over-- Agatha Christie, when The Lakeside Players present their new, original mystery dinner show that spoofs old-fashioned whodunits, the medical profession, "female problems," and theater folks!
When half the cast of "Murder on the Oriental Rug" bails out, the remaining performers are stuck playing all the roles. During the first act, you'll meet a Shakespearean actor with a drinking problem, a washed-up former child star, a bimbo with a short memory, and a hapless costumer who finds herself onstage -- playing a man.
During the "play within a play," you'll visit the exclusive clinic of Dr. Charles Ovary, renowned hot flash specialist who's secretly treating a famous actress trying desperately to regain her youth. You'll get to know the doctor's coldly efficient wife, his passionate female protégé, the actresses' hunky husband, a flighty French maid, a shifty handyman, and an inspector investigating the dead body on the Oriental rug.
Will the play make it to Broadway? Will the performers remember their lines? Will the Shakespearean actor fit into the maid's costume? Will the chalk outline come out of the rug? Will the inspector solve the murder? Will another murder occur?
Before the evening's over, some else will be ruthlessly murdered, and it's up to the audience to solve the crime. Prizes will be awarded to the first people who correctly guess the murder and motive.
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
"Dealt A Deadly Hand"
Murder At the Pocono Royale Casino!
Poking fun at "Casablanca", casino life, and senior citizen gambling addictions
Is nothing sacred? This mystery dinner show spoofs the movie "Casablanca" and the American Dream of winning the jackpot. You'll meet crafty Native Americans, sneaky senior citizens, an Austrialian Croc Chaser, a two-faced lawyer, a kid with two left feet, a gambling casino owner with a Humphrey Bogart complex, and a gold digging ex-wife. Throw music and mayhem into the mix and you have -- "Dealt A Deadly Hand--Murder at the Pocono Royale Casino!"
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
"Fishin' for Trouble"
A Whale of a Fatal Tale!
This package comes with instructions to convert this show into a Christmas version titled
"HOME-icide for the HOLIDAYS"
Welcome to the annual gala fundraiser for the International Feed the Whales Foundation! Tonight you'll meet former TV star Sally Crouthers, head of the Foundation; her husband Peter St. Croix, CEO of Pirate Pete's Frozen Fish Sticks; Countess Stella de Marina, the chief benefactor; Capt. Dick Rudder, owner of the official Feed the Whales boat; and Dr. Myrna Fluke, famous whaleologist. You'll also be treated to some music and dancing. But wait! Are deadly undercurrents lurking beneath the festive atmosphere? Keep your eyes and ears open, because someone will meet their demise tonight--and it's up to you to solve the crime!
And remember, with this package you get instructions on how to change "Fishin' for Trouble" to Homicide for the Holidays", a Christmas Murder Mystery version of "Fishin' for Trouble".
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
"Polter-Heist"
Our Haunted Inn Spoof
Great for Halloween or any time of the year!
Polter-Heist? That's right. The spelling isn't wrong. This is a show where everyone is trying to heist something--including stealing a ghost.
Join Madame Zelda Von Schpookum, president of the Boogeyman Outreach Organization (BOO), and a host of whacky characters as they attempt to make contact with the ghost haunting the Mouldering Pines Inn. See Professor Lionel Spector become possessed by the spirit! Will the bickering innkeepers, Jim and Phyllis Lodge, kill each other before finding the lost treasure? Will the FBI agents, Smolder and Skullery from the Hex Files division, solve the mystery of the haunted inn before another murder is committed? A hauntingly hilarious show that's perfect for Halloween--or any other time of the year!
This non-musical show has a cast of 5 women and 3 men. It is easily adapted to actors of all ages. The set is minimal, requiring only two folding chairs and a boom box. One of our most popular shows and the easiest to perform.
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
"Murder at the Tonylou Awards"
Poking fun at every awards show out there!
Just when you thought you'd seen an award for everything, here comes...
The Tonylou Awards! It's the biggest event of the year! A star-studded night, featuring the most famous stars and studs from Broadway. There's no telling what an actor might do to win this coveted award! You'll meet some of the biggest names in the industry, including Celia B. DeMilo, CEO of PMS Studios, searching for her next big star; Monty Carlo, Latin superstar trying to break into the American market; Tony Hardcastle, your host for the evening; and the unforgettable (and always inebriated) Lorna Lush, has-been actress and a fixture at every awards show. But all is not as it seems. Behind the scenes, there's plenty of jealousy, greed, and good old fashioned backstabbing going on. Will Lorna finally get an award? Will Celia find her next big star? Will the truth surrounding the mysterious deaths of Tony and Marylou Hardcastle, Sr. finally be revealed? Was it an accident.........or murder! Tune in to find out!
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
"Eat, Drink and Be Murdered!"
Our Irish version of The Hatfields and the McKoys
Grandma Rose O'Riley McFadden took the O'Riley recipe for homemade whiskey, handed down to her by her father, and gave it to her husband, Finian McFadden. He built a distillery, and now Wild Irish Rose Whiskey is one of the top selling brands in the world. The McFaddens are filthy rich because of the O'Riley family recipe. To make things even worse between the two families, many of the O'Rileys have to work for the McFaddens at the distillery because there's no other employment in the area.
Finian and Rose have one child, Conor. When Finian died, Conor took over running the distillery--but not with absolute control. When Rose gave away the O'Riley family recipe, she purposely left out one ingredient as an "insurance policy." To this day, only she knows what that ingredient is. For years, she's gone in and added the ingredient to each mix. Rose always knew the family recipe was a worth a fortune; she also suspected that Finian married her for the recipe. She married him because his family had the money to start the distillery, and she hoped she could eventually convince him to include the O'Rileys. Finian turned out to be a real bastard. He hated the O'Rileys, treated them like dirt, and gave them the lowest jobs at the distillery. Rose never divulged the secret ingredient and held out hope that when Conor grew up, he'd take over the business and include the O'Rileys. Unfortunately, Conor turned out to be a chip off the old McFadden block, a real O'Riley hater.
Now, Rose's health and mind appear to be failing, and both families are worried. If she dies before revealing the secret ingredient, it's curtains for Wild Irish Rose Whiskey and the McFadden empire.
The McFaddens need the secret to stay in business. The O'Rileys want the secret to begin producing what they feel is rightfully theirs. Family members on both sides have their own reasons for getting their hands on that secret ingredient. To make matters worse, today is Rose's 80th birthday, and both families have been forced to gather under one roof to honor her. It's a family reunion in the middle of a family feud!
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
The first in a series of murder mystery script packages involving our very own bumbling detective...
Sam Club, Private Eye
in
"The Case of the Malted Falcon"
Private Eye Sam Club is in hot chocolate - er, hot water - when the priceless edible chocolate sculpture he's guarding is stolen while it's being transported by train to the Gallery of Amazingly Great Art (GAGA) in New York City. Is the thief Velma Vavoomski, Sam's ditsy secretary? Famous TV chef Rachael Raven? Bird Activist Abigail Nightingale? Or one of the other wacky characters? Help Sam and amateur sleuth Miss Marbles solve the crime!
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
It's finally here!
The second in a series of Sam Club Mysteries!!
"The Case of the Motorcoach Murders!"
Get ready for an evening of fatal fun when your group presents, "Sam Club, Private Eye and the Case of the Motorcoach Murder". Join Sam Club, private eye, and his mother, Wilimena (Billy) Club, Minnie Cooper, Cornelia Bellweather and host of other zany characters as the action takes place at a resort where a senior group stops for the night after attending the famous Road Kill Falls Annual Barbeque. But this murder mystery has a different twist. Instead of having someone die at the end, we bring in the body right in the beginning. Then the audience watches for clues and tries to guess who killed poor Harry the group leader. Every cast member is a suspect, including Sam Club himself. Although he's on vacation, Sam is talked into solving the crime,
and goes about it in his usual bumbling fashion.
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Holmes Sweet Homicide
Our Sherlock Holmes Spoof!
Move over -- or roll over—Arthur Conan Doyle! And he will when your theater company unveils a mystery dinner show that spoofs Victorian customs, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, exotic diseases and cures, and more.
World-famous detective Hemlock Holmes has just returned from a trip to a sanatorium in upstate New York, where he visited a long-lost cousin. Unbeknownst to his sidekick Whatsun, Holmes has brought the cousin, Elmira, back home. When Whatsun finds out the cousin is a beautiful woman with a rare mental disorder called Disrobe-a-phobia, she’s shocked and jealous! (Yes, Whatsun is a woman, too.) Mystery and intrigue abound when Dr. Charles Ovary and his nurse arrive to cure Elmira – and the doctor becomes as infatuated with Elmira as Holmes is!
Your audience will need to keep its eyes and ears open, because someone will be ruthlessly murdered at the end of the play, and it’s up to them to guess who-done-it!
To purchase this script package using Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Card, PayPal or Electronic Check, Click the "Add to Cart"button below.
Purchase a Complete "Murder On the Oriental Rug" Script Package with Royalties for 10 Performances
Price: $75.00
Don't forget, buy 2 and get a third one free!
Script Sample: To view a sample of this script, click the script icon. It will open a Word Document. This is the script, minus the last eight to ten pages.
Check or Money Order: To purchase this script package by check or money order, click the check icon below and you will be taken to an Order Form Page. Print that page, fill it out and send it in with your check.