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Mild fun afoot in Sinclair opener Curiosity kills characters in the college production, a musical spoof of the Agatha Christie genre.

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From: Dayton Daily News
Date: 20071016
Author:Terry Morris Staff Writer

DAYTON -- Things go thud in the night and during the daytime in "Something's Afoot," which opened last weekend at Sinclair Community College.

Those things are the characters in a mildly entertaining musical spoof of the Agatha Christie genre by James McDonald, Robert Gerlach and David Vos.

It's how they meet their demise, usually abetted by a clever bit of theater technology, that provokes the fun in a production directed by Nelson Sheeley with musical direction by John Faas and choreography by Wendy Ferrero.

The 11 songs are trifles. One about a "little dinghy," sung by Chaney Mason Morrow ...

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