Pop Music, Murder and Mayhem – Large group script

The inspector role is essential for the game to work. He/she facilitates the entire evening.

The other characters can be taken from the audience and briefed before game play starts, OR you can select a group to play your suspects in advance of the night and give them time to get fluent in their roles and answers.

The rest of the guests are fully included in the game as they’ll be asking questions throughout the night.

Essential Cast:

Inspector Elvish – The man of the law sent to solve the crime
Efficient in his own peculiar way, Inspector Elvish has an unusual method of solving crimes – he involves everyone!

Britney Sparks – The Princess of Pop.
Britney favours plenty of bling, possibly offset with a large Burmese albino python.

Topper Pops – A freelance music journalist.
Topper Pops is past his best and scruffily dressed in an old suit.

Emma Nem – Female white rapper, aka Marsha Mathers.
Born and raised on the mean streets of Detroit, Emma Nem is gangsta through and through.

Otto Tune – A reality TV star
Hungry for success, Otto Tune relies on charisma, good looks and fashion, because he certainly can’t sing!

Mr Big – Record company executive.
The main man in this business Mr Big dresses to impress.

Sue Perfan – Brett Pop’s number one fan!
Sue Perfan loved the 90s music and style and still hasn’t seen anything she likes better.

Additional characters in the 9 cast game:

Thicky Martin – Latin pop sensation.
Real name Enthique Martin, but better known as Thicky to his millions of fans around the world.

Gingery Haliwell – Former Spicy Girl.
Gingery was the heart and soul of the Spicy Girls. Apart from anything else, she was the only one actually named after a spice.

Additional characters in the 11 cast game:

Dr. Von Danzen – Dutch dance music producer.
From Ibiza to Amsterdam, Dr. Van Danzen has the winning formula and keeps on churning out the hits.

Smiley Virus – Fearless young pop star.
Smiley is the next generation of pop starlet; young, disrespectful, wearing a onesie and out of control.

Additional characters in the 13 cast game:

Pro Bono – Lead singer of Youse 2 and a global icon.
Black shirt, leather jacket, cowboy hat or mullet, Pro Bono is instantly recognisable by his wraparound sunglasses.

Mad Donna – The Queen of Pop.
A fashion chameleon whose various looks include 80s tomboy, wedding dress and lacy gloves, power dressing, cone bra and channelling Marilyn Monroe or Eva Peron.

These games require 7-13 cast and involve the rest of the audience by getting them to ask pre-set questions – which are provided to them on paper by the inspector at the start of each round.

They run in a similar way to a dinner party, so are an ideal first choice for novice hosts and acing teams with little or no experience running large scale events.

These games work best as a sit down event with 6-12 tables of guests, with a suspect on each table.

As a rough guide these mysteries take approximately 2-3 hours to complete with a three course meal.

During the game the audience will listen to five short sets of dialogue from the cast and pose pre-scripted questions (which the cast answer with pre-scripted answers). There are three rounds which can be evenly spread throughout the night or, if preferred, the question and answer rounds can be bunched together into one large round.

At the end of the final round the guests are given time to decide who is the murderer, and once the guests have decided who did it, how and why (i.e. the murderer and motive) they will complete the answer sheet and hand it in.

How these games usually run.

Introductory Round: Introductions by the cast and the facilitator “inspector character”.
Rounds 1, 2 and 3: Scripted dialogue from the cast, followed by pre-set questions and answers.
Concluding Statements and solution: conclusions by the cast and denouement from the inspector.

There is one “inspector character” who acts as facilitator during the event and is essential to the cast.

Reducing the cast size will reduce the length of time required to solve the mystery.

We can customise this game.  However, sadly we do have to charge for this service as even minor customisations take between 1-2 hours to process in the office and we need to buy toilet roll and biscuits as much as the next person…

It’s hard to give “ball park” figures for what different customisations would cost however we’ve attempted to HERE.

Remember… if you just need 1 extra person, or 1 less person, why not add in the inspector as your extra guest.  The inspector can usually be male or female as the “for real” inspector can simply invent a new name for themselves.

Some hosts prefer to play the inspector role as it means they can work on the catering while the round plays out amongst their guests.