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January 8, 2025 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Emery Zunger back here with you News Radio eleven ten kfab.
We're always talking about cool things happening in the community,
and that once again is happening at the Orphium where
I yesterday had a chance to see Clue live on stage,
and I'm blessed to be joined by a couple of
the cast members of this show. Christina Anthony, who plays
the dashing Miss Scarlett. Thank you for coming in, Christina.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
And then we have Terry Kelly, who plays Missus White.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Missus White very serious.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
So it's such a fun idea to take a beloved
board game and bring it to live now it's been
done with this particular board game on multiple time, multiple
occasions and different mediums because of how fun the game
is and just you never know what's going on. Christina,
how does one learn about live on stage playing a

(00:50):
character from Clue?

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I have to say I barely remembered Clue the movie
and I played the game maybe many years ago. But
my niece actually reintroduced me to the game when I
got this gig, and her first words were, don't worry,
everything's fake. You won't be killed. And I think that's
so great to remember if you see the show, it
is hijinks. Obviously we're all fine at the end when

(01:14):
we come out, but it is in the moment it's
really scary.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
You're like, who did it? Am I capable of doing this?
Am I the killer? You have to come to see
and find out.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
But yeah, I think just learning playing the game and
that anticipation it really translates to the stage.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
And you talk about hijinks, Missus White is, like you mentioned,
you know, kind of one of the more serious, but
it's over the top serious. All of these characters are
kind of reminiscent of what you would see in kind
of a wacky cartoon more so than real life. And
it keeps you laughing, probably from minute one when the

(01:51):
show starts to literally as you guys are taking your
final bows. You know, how do you best describe kind
of the terry the attitude of this production, because it
is pretty quick, I mean, in no intermission at all.
It really keeps you laughing the entire time.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
It's really fast paced mystery. The thing that the way
we approach it is we have to approach it from
a very serious place, you know, like that it's all
really happening. Of course it's heightened and everything, but I
think that adds to the humor of the piece, that
we're not really turning at the audience and winking like
get it, you know, right, There is that element to it,
but it gets wackier. I think as the night goes on,

(02:31):
the killings that happen are very cartoonish, so it's not
scary at all, and I think they get more and
more ridiculous, so we kind of all I've always said, like,
people are coming to this show and they're laughing about
people being murdered.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
What is wrong with people?

Speaker 5 (02:45):
But honestly, it's just so over the top and wacky.
But as the night goes on, we all get a
little crazier too. I think we're all tightly wound when
we come in you see who we are, and then
everything unravels, and so we all unravel as well, well,
as Wadsworth says, we all unravel and start killing people.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Everybody starts dying.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, and that's the funny part about a murder mystery.
When you watch it, you don't know what's going on,
and you are really led to believe the characters have
no idea what's going on either and they're kind of
just left in the dark throughout the entire production. But
that pace, right we talked about eighty minutes. It is
no intermission. It is super tidy for anybody who sees it,

(03:29):
and you just kind of lose yourself for as long
as you're there. So Christina, for anybody who you know
might have seen a few Broadway shows and it might
be more of the traditional style of Broadway shows or
a musical and they think they know how this goes.
This kind of breaks a lot of those rules in
terms of just how quick and how entertaining this would be.

(03:49):
How do you describe kind of the setup and the
set itself, which really allows you know, there's not scene
changes there. It's really just kind of flowing from one
scene to the next within the house, and you're actively
seeing the room still change.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yes, our designer.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
In that sense, it is different from maybe a show
of that you've seen, like a Broadway show. The set
is one place and I think imagine yourself. It really
allows you to get into the mind of the characters,
which is I've been invited to this dinner and I
just can never leave this house, and I think I
try to imagine being invited to a dinner party where
I don't know anybody, and also I'm required to stay

(04:30):
for eighty minutes. And it's just it keeps you on
the edge of your seat. Our designer is amazing. The
rooms kind of flow in and out of each other,
and there's moving pieces and so we often, you know,
you'll come into a room and then the room will
just kind of flip around on itself, and it's a
surprise to each character as we enter. It'll be a
surprised to you as you watch it, but it definitely

(04:51):
keeps you on the edge of feeling like this is
very mysterious. I don't know these people, I don't know
this house, and I don't even know the host.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
I've always said that the set is on like a
board game in and of itself. The way the floor
looks and then the way things flip open. It's like
when you have a board game and you flip it
open and yeah, and I love that little nod to
the game, honestly. And some of the wallpaper if you notice,
I mean some people who are hardcore clue playing clue
people will notice that the wallpaper in a lot of

(05:19):
the rooms matches the one from the seventies that I
had growing up, Like it's it's the wallpaper that's reminiscent
of those rooms. So that's like a really cool thing too.
I also want to like dovetail onto what you said,
the show itself being eighty minutes. That's how long these
characters are in this. It's in real time. Everything's in
real time, so there's no like, oh, the next day

(05:40):
this happened. No, it's everything is in time. So that's
kind of a cool little element.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I think.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah. And I think on top of that, it takes,
you know, just about that amount of time to play
a full, good game of Clue when you're with you know, seven,
eight or nine people. You know, it's a it's a game.
Everybody's you know, paying attention and you're really engaged and
you're trying to figure all this stuff out. And there
are multiple nods to the actual board game, which I
love that stuff. I love those nods. Christina Anthony, who

(06:06):
plays Miss Scarlett, Terry Kelly, who plays Missus White, joining
us here in the studio. So let's go ahead and
talk about the cast, because you guys are a large
percentage of the entire ensemble because we know of the characters.
I mean, there's less than a dozen people who are
actively on the stage. I would imagine it's a pretty
small group of people who are, you know, doing the

(06:28):
music and the sound effects as the show goes on.
I'm sure that lends itself to kind of a fun
in high chemistry environment because you guys are really just
interacting with the same handful of people the entire show.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Right, Oh, totally, totally.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
I mean there's not a lot of time for hijinks,
but I find times to scare people.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Christina, I haven't.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I think maybe I've gotten you one time.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I'm not as the person who loves to scare people,
so I'll hide behind things when I get a chance
to jump out.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
But that's like in the spirit of the show, right.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, yes, And I think it's this this being a
first national tour. I think I'm just loving like being
I haven't been on a tour in about twenty years.
And it's also just fun being with this group of people.
It's kind of like being at a sleep away camp
that does not end and you're getting paid. But yeah,
we're like thirty five people. They think five dogs and

(07:19):
a baby now, yeah, and so it is. It's a
great group and.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
We do a lot of things together.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
We like on Friday night, I think people are going
to get out Omaha to do a like a escape room.
Escape room. You know.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
We do things like that together, fun stuff together all
the time.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
And we celebrate like we'll celebrate birthdays on the road,
holidays together, and honestly, you know, we spend more time
together than our own you know, spouses and children and
families that's been with us. And so that part, I
think it does translate to the stage of having you know,
just a fun banter and fun chemistry with each other totally.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
And I think, you know, I have different you know
people in here, and Peter Pain was the last show
that was at the Orpheum, and it's such a young ensemble, right,
so these are a lot of people are just getting
their career started. There's such a wide range of different
people with different backgrounds that lend itself to the stage
with your Guys's production because you're all coming from literally
different places in life. It's not everybody just kind of

(08:11):
starting at the same time. It's you all have your
own experiences that you're bringing here, So let's talk about
the characters. Miss Scarlett comes in and immediately is you know,
you can figure out what Miss Scarlet's up to, but
at the same time trying to figure out who she
knows and who she may not know. How do you
kind of bring Miss Scarlett to life on the stage.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I think it was really interesting for me.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Obviously, I was familiar with the film and I wanted
I was empowered to do something different and thinking of
someone who is maybe has what people consider a CD job,
but to really realize she's not actually CD. She's a
very savvy businesswoman, and so she does come in and
she plays dumb and pretends to not know people, but

(08:54):
as the play goes on, you realize she might actually
have employees there, she might actually have clients ants there.
But she's very I think she's really smart, and I
think she does what people expect, which is, oh, you're
kind of sassy and sensual, But really I think her
wheels are turning and she's calculating and tries to figure
out what she needs to do to survive, because I

(09:16):
don't I think she's seen a few dead bodies, but
I don't think she's a killer.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
sEH, yeah, well I can tell you this. You're constantly
guessing as to who the killing types are on the stage,
and Missus White doesn't necessarily strike you as a killer,
except for she's the first one, I think on stage
accused of killing people in the past. So terry when
it comes to Missus White. You know, you don't talk

(09:42):
about sketchy background stories before she even got into this house.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
You know what you mean.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yes, she gets accused of many things that she may
or may not have done. But you know, she's she's
a widow, widow, what is it widower? We just a widow,
multiple times widow, multiple time widow. She's in constant mourning.
That's why she wears black, even though she's called missus White.
What but she I've had numerous people say you look

(10:10):
guilty from the minute you come in, and I'm like, good,
that's what That's kind of what she is. You think
she's guilty, but is she?

Speaker 3 (10:16):
You don't know?

Speaker 5 (10:18):
So I love playing that that juxtaposition, and I also
like playing she is a bit of a you know,
in being a black widow. She she does approach her
next victim, so to speak, Who am I going to marry?

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Who am I? Whose money am I going to get?
You know, maybe they'll lind up dead.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
I don't know, that's kind of it's just a really
it's very different than who I am. And she's the
thing I love about about Missus White too and playing her,
she's she's very sure of herself and very very gathered,
very together.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
She doesn't have a lot of crazy moves or you know,
anything like that. She's she's just very serious and very
unlike me. So it's very fun to play.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, I think the cool thing about that character is
just it adds kind of like this professionalism of just
you need kind of that she's wearing a literal veil,
but like this veil of uncertainty around this entire personality,
and obviously you deny anything you may or may not

(11:20):
have been a part of in the past, especially if
people are starting to you know, keel over in this house.
But it's so fun to watch the journey that, you know,
all of the characters end up going on to try
to solve all of these various things that are happening
in this house. So we have Clue Live on stage
taking place from now until the twelfth so through the

(11:41):
weekend you could find tickets at the Omaha Performing Arts
website very easy to and the box office as well,
and I highly highly recommend it and bring your laughs
with you because you're gonna need them. Really appreciate Christina
and Terry, you guys coming in and being a part
of our show today and good luck, enjoy Omaha. And

(12:01):
I know you both are from the Midwest, so you
know you're enjoying I'm sure the return to some cold
weather and sure that's.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
What I'm doing. I'm enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
I'm learning how to re enjoy it. Thanks for having
me back in the Midwest.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, absolutely, Christina, Anthony, Terry Kelly here playing Miss Scarlett
and Missus White see Clue live on stage at the
Orpheum through this weekend, and we'll be back with plenty
more here on news Radio eleven ten and KFAB
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