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Comic Dinner Theater–Delicious Food

BYOB (though wine and beer available to serve yourself)

Friday, May 8–Plenty of seats.  Saturday, May 9–Almost sold out.

Doors at 5:30, Play starts at 6. 

First Parish Hall, 40 Main St., Freeport, ME

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At Crab Cakes and Murder, you will enjoy a delicious dinner while watching a cast of real “characters” in a play with some weird family dynamics, hilarious wordplay, a little confusion, many twists, and lots of fun. 

During a surprise storm, Captain Savage Raines goes missing at sea. The wreckage of the Half Shell is found, but with no sign of the commercial fisherman, Sheriff Sandy Shoals assumes Captain Raines is dead. That wouldn’t be a surprise considering what a hateful codger he was. After all, who else would name his twin daughters Misery and Calamity?!

The sheriff finds the incident especially curious since the shipwreck was just a day after Savage announced his retirement and revealed plans to divvy up Peg Legg Seafoods. And since those business plans minimized his wife Peggy’s role in the company and largely cut out the rest of the family with the exception of his bootlicking twin daughters, everyone had a motive for sabotage.

Reeling in audience members to help sift through the evidence, Sheriff Shoals casts a wide net to try to catch the guilty party. Clue packets, audience participation, and fun seafaring costumes and themes, are sure to make this fishy murder mystery a seafood delight for audiences!

CAST:  DUNGENESS CRABBE –Jackie Stowell;  PEGGY LEGG-RAINES –Karyn Diamond; STONE CRABBE—David Wallace;  DECADENCE RAINES – Elise Alves; C.D. LAWYER –Nate Levesque;  SHERIFF SANDY SHOALS –Hali Fortin; CALAMITY RAINES –Jillian Lovejoy;  MISERY RAINES –Dana Chabot; CAPTAIN SAVAGE RAINES –John Paterson;  HUMP DAY –Peter Nicoll

Ticket, $45, includes dinner and the play.  Dinner will be crab cakes or vegan (chickpea/hearts of palm) cakes with garlic aioli on a bed of mixed greens and balsamic glaze, sauteed summer squash and zucchini with herbs, red and gold roasted potatoes.  Mixed appetizers, including croissant “crabwiches,” and charcuterie: fruit, veggies, cheeses, meats, crackers.  Variety of delicious desserts.  BYOB.   Also, wine and beer available by donation–serve yourself.  When buying tickets, you can choose crab or vegan cakes.  In the comment box at the end, tell us who you want to sit with.

Dinner chef:  David Hansen.    Appetizer chef:  Tais De Los Reyes.  Desserts by Tais and volunteers.

Produced by Special Arrangement with Pioneer Drama Services, Inc., Denver, CO

Questions:

Producer Judy Lloyd    jelloyd68@yahoo.com           Director Linda Duarte   lindaduartebk@gmail.com

Last year’s dinner theater– Death of a Hot Sauce Salesman

 

FP 2026 Season Sponsor: 

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RADIO XIX–WFCP Home Time Radio Hour, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music! Comedy! Mystery! Fun!

The show was live, onstage, set in a “radio studio” in the mid-20th century.  Music, with live band, sketch comedy, wacky product ads and jingles, hilarious sound effects.

  It’s the 19th year of a unique performance, where the “live studio audience” attends an old-time “radio” show set in the 1920s-1970s. Original sketches, from Joe Tanner, PI to Tales from the Tomb, to Rocket Space Quest, and more, this year, all the way back to the Roaring Twenties.  Great songs of the era, including Come Fly With Me, I Can See Clearly Now, All of Me, The Best Things in Life are Free, and many more, with a live band onstage.   Wacky products like Gas Station Coffee from ACME.  And hilarious Sound Effects folks! But it’s only on stage, and not really on the radio.   Season sponsor is Kennebec Savings Bank.                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Directed by Alicia Belmore (sketches) and Mitch Thomas (music).

Cast: Ella Ackerman, Shirley Bernier, Catherine Carty-Wilbur, Phil Chin, Nadine Clark, Cathryn Cunningham, Dave Hansen, Paul Kane, Alyssa Lazaro, Mary-At Lessard, Nate Levesque, Judy Lloyd, Jillian Lovejoy, Andy Mass, Korinne Mehta, James Melita, Peter Nicoll, Joe Quinn, Henry Quintal, Betsy Roper, Dorothy Shull, Jessica Tracy, Marguerite Walker, David Wallace, Rob West, Sparrow Wilbur.  Band: Mitch Thomas, Parker Kenyon, Mike Banas, and Jarius Polley.

Producer Judy Lloyd,  jelloyd68 @yahoo.com

 

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