THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, June 21, 1996 TAG: 9606200152
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 05 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY LORI A. DENNEY, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 34 lines
When there's murder, there's usually mystery.
And beginning this weekend, three staged murders promise to leave a lot of folks scratching their heads, wondering, ``Who dun it?''
The Virginia Beach Jaycees and the Civitans of Virginia Beach are each playing host to dinner theater murder mysteries, and the proceeds from the events will go to charities.
The Jaycees will hold an interactive murder mystery, ``Murder By the Sea,'' featuring the Von Trapp Family Reunion as the setting at 7 p.m. Saturday and on June 28 at the Radisson Hotel at 19th Street.
Reserved seat tickets are $22 and include the price of dinner, dancing, door prizes and a chance to solve a murder, which will be dramatized by actors. Guests will have the opportunity to ask the actors questions about clues, and each table will come to a consensus about who is the perpetrator. Each show will have a different culprit.
The group is hoping to send 100 area mentally handicapped children to Camp Virginia Jaycee in Roanoke. The cost for one child to attend one week of camp is about $300, said Maureen Shea, the event's chairperson. For tickets, call 495-3165.
Another murder mystery, featuring the ``Who Dunit'' Players and sponsored by the Civitans of Virginia Beach, will unfold ``The Reading of the Will'' at 5 p.m. June 30 at the Hits At The Park restaurant in the Harbor Park Stadium in Norfolk.
Tickets for this dinner theater mystery cost $27 and proceeds from the event with go to the Children's Research Hospital.
Reservations can be made by calling the restaurant at 624-9000. by CNB