NATCHITOCHES – The NSU Summer Dinner Theatre will present “I Love You to Death: A Speakeasy Mystery” June 17-21 and June 24-28 at The Venue on Front Street located at 530 Front Street In Natchitoches. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Dinner and the show starts at 6 p.m.
Tickets are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-love-you-to-death-a-speakeasy-mystery-tickets-1382450068369?aff=ehometext. For more information, call (318) 357-4483.
A.A. Fredericks Auditorium is undergoing a system remodel, so the dinner theatre shows are in a different location this year.
“This has allowed us to take a different approach to the show,” said Director Robert Richoux. “The show will take place at the Venue on Front Street, which means there is no stage, and the cast will be in and out of the audience to make you feel even more connected and immersed in the world of the play.
“I Love You to Death: A Speakeasy Mystery” was written by Robert J. Leblanc. In the play, a boxer, a gangster, a rival, a tortured vaudevillian, a woman on the prowl and a pair of star-crossed lovers enter the Irish Lyon Social Club. Who will leave the speakeasy alive? The jazz plays, illegal liquor flows and the bodies and suspects start piling up in this tale of crooked deals, jilted lovers, betrayal and mayhem. Try to pin the suspect with the crime to find out who did the deed in “I Love You to Death.”
The cast is Halle Ortego of Lake Charles as Siobhan Delaney, Shay Beatty of Shreveport as Iva Delaney, Tyler Sibley of Alexandria as Romeo Montano, Angel-Lena Wade of Colfax as Teresa Capo and Jezek Maxwell of Longview, Texas, as Sean “The Lion” Delaney.
“This show was chosen because of the venue,” said Richoux. “I wanted the Venue on Front Street to take on the role of the scenery, and this will allow you to really feel like you are in a speakeasy. The show is very funny, the cast is going to be amazing, and we want you to have a great time with us.”
The next Summer Dinner Theatre Show will be “A Fifties Doo-Wop Snapshot” on July 22-26 and July 29-August 2.
