Murder Mystery Memory #11: Jody Haucke
Jody Haucke
We arrived at the side of the Ottawa River on a very brisk night one October evening to perform a show aboard a small party liner like you would go on for your grad cruise; you know the ones, two stories with a dining room and an upstairs patio. I was playing the first victim of the night who faked his own death and returns at the end of the show and has to stay covered in blood the entire time, hiding in back somewhere. However, a boat has no back room; in fact the only room I could possibly hide in was the Captain’s control room. But no one is allowed in there except the Captain and the first mate even though the room was about 10 feet by 10 feet wide. So I had to hide covered in blood on the front of the boat in a 4 foot by 4 foot area in the cold October air on the river, slathered in stage blood with only a towel to keep me warm for over an hour. I was finally able to warm up a bit when Trevor Payer brought me some food that was all beige, because when he went to buffet he did not have his glasses on, and his character was wearing sun glasses in the dark, but according to Trevor most beige food is pretty good.
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Eddie May Murder Mysteries celebrates 25 years with a bang! For this silver anniversary celebration, the company stages a murder mystery musical Eddie Get Your Gun, created by Noel Counsil and Dan Lalande, directed by Thea Nikolic. The show plays Saturday evenings through the summer at Scarlett’s Dinner Theatre in the Byward Market. For more information, please call 613 850 9700 or visit www.eddiemay.com
