Word: shears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bostonian accent is just one of the show's elements tailored for the Beantown audience. Boston's Shear Madness is one of three productions currently enjoying an extended run of this fast-food theater phenomenon across America...
...week, just before concert pianist Isabella Czerny is stabbed in the throat with a deadly pair of scissors. One would think he'd have run out of hair by now, and she'd have moved away from the cursed hair salon where Boston's hilarious audience-participation murder mystery Shear Madness...
...what's a bit of hair loss and death, if they bring you apparently eternal commercial success and an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records for the longest running non-musical in American theater history? Sounds remarkable, implausible even. Yet somehow, Shear Madness' formula works...
Looking for a way to kill someone? Why stab your better half in the throat when there's USAir? Such playful suggestions are rife throughout the play. Shear Madness constantly reminds us of the funny bits in life and the news. Remember McDonald's $2 million cup of steaming hot coffee? Newt Gingrich's pet name for Hillary Clinton? They live again in Shear Madness...
Funny as the quips are, the neat turn around when police officer Nick Rosetti (Michael Fennimore) asks the audience to help find Czerny's murderer wins Shear Madness the most fans. The chance to be sleuth for a night leaves everyone clambering for their turn to join...