A Cruise-mas Carol From The Mystery Cafe Would Be a Crime to Miss
The Mystery Cafe’s new show A Cruise-mas Carol is like all of their shows I’ve seen, just good plain fun. You get a nice meal, in this case it’s like the meals on all cruise ships and served buffet style. An entertaining show filled with corny jokes and in this case a magic show. But wait! That’s not all, you also get to pit your wits against the writers of the show and try and guess the solution to the mystery. This time it’s not a murder but a theft and the thief could be anyone a member of the crew or a passenger. And there are prizes awarded to the most creative solutions as well as the Super Sleuth who solves the crime. Last year I gave The Mystery Cafe as Christmas gifts and I plan to do that again this year. It really is the perfect outing to spend with family and friends, everyone has a good laugh, and trying to solve the mystery together can be a great team building exercise for those business owners looking for something unique to try with their employees.
A Cruise-mas Carol was co-written by one of my favorite local Writer/Actor/Artistic Directors Nissa along with The Mystery Cafe Founder Brian Kelly. Nissa also brings her boundless energy and enthusiasm to the role of Sandy, the Ships Activity Director and Niece of the Captain. Pulling double duty as both DJ and Roger, the ships engineer, is another favorite of The Stages of MN Sam Landman. He plays the ships engineer as a Scotsman as all ship engineers should be, with a very passable and fun accent. His work on the soundboard is as important as his character role as there is a lot of laughs that come from sound cues. Always great to see Wini Froelich in a show, she plays a retired author and amatuer slueth Julia Flender, who is introduced with one of those above mention audio jokes, see if you can guess what it might be? Everyone in the cast of these shows is having a blast and that makes it fun for the audience as well. I did also want to acknowledge Ryan Robert Nelson who plays the ship’s Captain so openly and playfully silly. A special shout out to Markus Clegg who plays Randy the Remarkable, the magician who is the ships entertainment, his portion was really fun, particularly a shadow puppet sequence.
A Cruise-mas Carol runs through January 4th 2025 at the Majestic Oaks Golf Club in Ham Lake. For more information and to purchase tickets go to https://www.themysterycafe.com/shows/now-playing. You’ll find info about all of their current shows there as well. The Mystery Cafe is also performing another holiday themed show this season which I saw last year called I’ll Be Homicidal For Christmas. This year it is being performed at a new location, The Sheraton Bloomington along with a few cast changes. Read my review from last years production, it’s a lot of fun as well. https://bit.ly/TSOMNHomicidalXMAS
