The Renaissance Theatre in Lake Mills will be hosting Penguin Productions doing the hilarious murder mystery Murder at Cafe Noir on October 15, 16, 22 & 23 at 7:30. Lake Mill’s restaurant Carp’s Landing, is offering a special Café Noir menu each night and will have patrons to the theater on time for the opening curtain.
Menu choices include Tobago Cay Half Rack of BBQ Ribs & Tempura Shrimp, Maria LaRue’s Chicken Florentine Pasta, Thursby’s Bacon Wrapped Pork Loin and Rick Archer Ribeye. Reservations are a must, call 920.648.3005 and tell them you want to order from the Café Noir menu.
Murder at Cafe Noir is one of the most popular murder mystery shows in the country and has had weekly productions coast to coast since its premiere in 1989. It is a stylized forties detective story featuring Rick Archer (played by Seth Habhegger), P.I. Rick is out to find a curvaceous runaway on the forgotten island of Mustique, a place stuck in a black and white era. The owner of the Cafe Noir has washed ashore, murdered, and Rick’s employs his hard boiled talents to find the killer. Was it the French madame and club manager (Heather Tongue), the voodoo priestess (Ann Penfield Grover), the shyster British attorney (Matt Emerson), the black marketeer (Jay Deppe) or the femme fatale (Beth Rohn Habhegger)? The audience votes on what they want Rick to do next and these decisions change the flow of this comic tribute to the Bogart era. Can you guess who the murderer is?
Tickets are $15 and are available at Countryside Jewelry, 120 Lake Street in Lake Mills, online at LakeMillsRenaissance.net and at the door. Order tickets online! For more information call Jill Nadeau at 920.285.1986.