SPRING VALLEY, WI – The Spring Valley Stagehands hit another home run with their spring production of “Murders in the Heir.” With a dangerously funny production, Director Lori Peterson and the cast of fourteen transport us to the Starkweather Mansion. With the family and staff gathered for the reading of billionaire Simon Starkweather’s (Michael Butts) will, two scheming women, Personal Secretary Kathy Collins (Edria Nyhus) and Lawyer Lois Van Zandt (Kelly Johnson) drop a bombshell on them all – after the night is over, the will becomes invalid, reducing the millions they all stood to inherit to just pennies.
With their future of millions on the line, the heirs and the staff are forced into a precarious position. As a storm rages on outside, at midnight the lights go out, a murder occurs and it’s anyone’s guess “who done it.”
The staff who stood to inherit one million dollars each are all suspects: Minerva (Ann Siegel) the feisty chef with a temper and a big knife, Nancy Pollard (Olivia Dumond) the fire poker wielding maid, Mrs. Trent (Sarah Erickson), the housekeeper, who finds herself faced with a moral dilemma, Bensonhurst (Matt Summers) the butler with a tiny wrench, Rufus Jones (Scott Thayer) the goofy handyman found with an axe in the house, or Miss Withers (Paula Knutson) the cranky nurse hired to tend to Mr. Starkweather.
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