BackStage Utah

After a hauntingly fun and successful Halloween season, Hunt Mysteries launches two new musical comedy murder mystery dinner theater productions: �Get a Clue: The $tocks Caper� and �Hammer Spade & the Steel Murder.�
For the 2010 Halloween season between the two openings on Oct. 8th and the closings on Oct. 30th, more than 2,100 attended either "Wacky Witch's Wedding" or "Gravestoned: All Men Are CREMATED Equal."
Many guests attended both dinner shows, which were staged at Boccias D�Italia in Ogden, The Castle in Layton and Spaghetti Mama�s in Sandy.
   There were 23 Halloween shows performed during that span, with an average of more than 90 guests per show.
   Guests came mostly from along Utah's Wasatch Front & Back but also from Wyoming, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, New York, South Dakota, Ohio, Texas and even Canada.
   Next up is �Get a Clue� opens Nov. 5 at Spaghetti Mama�s at Jordan Commons, 75 East 9400 South, Sandy, UT 84070, just northeast of The Mayan and the Megaplex 16 theater complex. Then �Hammer Spade� opens Nov. 6
also at Spaghetti Mama�s.
Other performances are scheduled through January at Spaghetti Mama�s and at Boccias D�Italia, 1045 North Washington Blvd., Harrisville, UT 84404, include the following:
      11/05/2010 Spaghetti Mama's Get a Clue: The $tocks Caper
      11/06/2010 Spaghetti Mama's Hammer Spade: The Steel Murder
      11/12/2010 Spaghetti Mama's Get a Clue: The $tocks Caper
      11/20/2010 Spaghetti Mama's Get a Clue: The $tocks Caper
      11/20/2010 Boccias D'Italia   Hammer Spade: The Steel Murder
      12/02/2010 Spaghetti Mama�s  Hammer Spade: The Steel Murder
         12/03/2010 Spaghetti Mama's Get a Clue: The $tocks Caper
      12/04/2010 Boccias D'Italia  Get a Clue: The $tocks Caper
      12/10/2010 Boccias D'Italia   Hammer Spade: The Steel Murder
      12/18/2010 Spaghetti Mama's Hammer Spade: The Steel Murder

Doors open and actors begin mingling at 7 p.m.
Show tickets are $15.00 per person in November and January, and $17.50 in December. Tickets for children 12 and under are $10 in November and January and $12.50 in December.
Both venues will offer separate food and beverage service during each performance. Once seated, guests can order from Spaghetti Mama's or Boccias special Hunt Mysteries menu, including a full line of beverages. Guests pay the venue separately for any food and beverages.
Book online at www.huntmysteries.com ; or via phone at 866-569-1482. Use Discount Code hmlights for $2.50 off per person.
In �Get a Clue,� stockholder in Atlas Inc., are guests at the specially convened Atlas Inc. stockholders meeting, where the founder and CEO Simon Lively is expected to reveal the reasons behind the sudden session. Many outside experts are speculating that Lively plans to address the recent secret advances at Atlas Robotics. But there are rumblings of discontent among many stockholders, including former employees and family members! Among those expected or unexpectedly to attend are Professor Prune, a former Atlas Robotics inventor extraordinaire who�s best friend is now Mr. Jack Daniel; Mrs. Peahen, Lively�s ex-wife who bares her claws at him but chirps sweet nothings to others; Col. Dijon, the world traveler and deep-sea treasure hunter who has spread himself thin financially but has always been able to get out of a jam; Mr. Mauve Green, the young master of Wall Street takeovers, is rumored to plan a �discreet appearance�;  Rose Redd, who needs little introduction � her name says it all � she�s devilishly hot! Also, Miss Blanc, Simon�s French maid, will be in attendance to attend to Lively and his guests.
In �Hammer Spade,� the 1940s throwback to Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon has a dark shadow hanging over his past that haunts him to this day.
Included in that shady past is Beryl Goldwater, a tough woman who's climbed the ladder of success all the way to the U.S. Senate. Now Hammer finds himself caught between a rock and a Steel case -- the murder case of one, Stanislaus Steel, a mountain of a man who charmed his way from handling scary explosives to a safe and secure marriage to the wealthy heiress Parker Poise.
As part of hammer's sleuthing, he confronts Steel's very personal assistant, Artemis Hunter, and Steel's playboy brother-in-law, Standish Poise. Get ready to help Hammer bring down the hammer on the guilty in "Hammer Spade & The Steel Murder."
Next April, Hunt Mysteries will celebrate 20 years of doing shows throughout Utah and the Mountain West.