“Murder Most Fowl,” the long-running comedy-mystery by Chicken Lips’ Bob Wells and John Ashton, is available for private performances. This is a fun show for your group because it contains lots of audience participation and lots of references to your people!

“Murder Most Fowl” takes place in the greenroom of Denver’s Consortium Theater, where a production of “Macbeth” is about to open. Late arrivals, disgruntled cast members and first-night chaos lead to the discovery of the murder of leading-man Robert Poulet (voiced by the late Denver theater critic Alan Dumas). Conveniently, a homicide detective is at the theater, and after she identifies the prime “persons-of-interest,” she deputizes the evening’s audience, and the interrogation begins!

“Murder Most Fowl” opened in 1989 at the old Avenue Theater, written by Ashton and Wells for the Chicken Lips’ company. The show was intended to play for four weeks, but the audience-participation comedy caught on with Denver audiences, and played non-stop for a full year. The show has continued to play at theaters and for business conferences across the country. Local, national and international people and events are skewered throughout the mystery, and the audience becomes the sixth member of the cast.