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Murder at the Carver High Reunion
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
On November 18, the
audience in attendance at the Mystique Dinner Shows
production of Murder at the Carver High Reunion will
have the opportunity, amongst the laughing, applauding,
cheering and dancing, to solve the mystery of just whodunit
and why was it done. |
Angela Barrow Dunlap, Producer, Playwright, Actress. |
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It’s been twenty years, and the Class of 1997 is looking
forward to fun, music and memories at their alma mater,
Carver High. Complete with fine dining, dessert and dancing,
what they didn’t
anticipate was a side of murder. Which one of these crazy
classmates has a secret they’d kill for? After numerous
sold-out performances in Detroit, the hit murder mystery,
Murder at the Carver High Reunion, is heading to Toledo.
The hit, interactive
dinner theater production, Murder at the Carver High
Reunion, will be at the Aria Banquet Hall for one night
presenting “outrageous personalities, twisted plots,
scorching hot secrets and shameful suspects” according to
the promotional material provided by the show’s producers.
One of those producers,
Angela Dunlap, will not be coming from too far away to bring
the dinner theater extravaganza to Toledo. Dunlap, a Detroit
native and resident, has been involved with theater ever
since, as a very young girl, her mother entered her in a
Little Miss Michigan talent show. As Dunlap recalls, she
went home after the show upset that she had no talent to
display. Her mother corrected that situation immediately by
writing for young Angela a dramatic monologue.
“I won,” says Dunlap. And
an actress was born. The writer, producer, director would
develop over time. Dunlap attended Southview Public Schools
where she had the opportunity to receive extensive drama
instruction, then on to Wayne State University, where she
studied but briefly before leaving to go on the road with a
professional show. It’s a profession that has kept her
active for 30 years now.
Over the last two decades,
Dunlap has risen to the top of the African-American urban
theater world s the creator and producer of multi-million
dollar grossing stage plays such aa My Brother Marvin, It
These Hips Could Talk, Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Boyz, Real
Men Pray, Gossip Lies & Secrets, Church Girl, among
others. If These Hips Could Talk was one of the
longest-running shows in urban theater history – a two-year
run starring some well-know Hollywood actors such as Billy
Dee Williams, Robin Givens, Tichina Arnold, among other. It
is currently being turned into a feature film.
Her current project,
Murder, is one she’s especially proud of. “It’s the most
fun you will ever have,” she says. “We invite the audience
to talk back and become part of the show. Each table becomes
an investigative team and the cast members are on the stage,
then in the audience.”
Murder at the Carver High
Reunion, starring actor/singer D’rtra Hicks (Black Tank)
from Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion, will be at the
Aria Banquet Hall, 5969 Telegraph Road on Saturday, November
18, at 5 p.m. For ticket information, to enjoy an evening of
theater, dinner and dancing, call 833-MYSHOWS or go online
at www.mystiquedinnershows.com.
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