Band name had to be a palindrome, ended up with Civil Racecar Civic. – Holly

The actual musical performance was amazing! – Amanda

The band performance inside was great! – Chandra

I loved the band performance. It felt like a really nice way to all come together and enjoy the moment. It really felt like the Midnight Bluebird came alive right then, and it also served as a nice hinge point for all the drama that followed. – Lauren

People were initially saying that Crescent City was the 6th borough of New York. Then a few people started casually upping that number. I think Lauren said to me “Don’t worry, Charlotte, I’ll make sure you get to sing in all 8 boroughs!” Rob cracked up at that. – Jess

The actual talent of the jazz performance. Wow! – Daniel

<3 the robot band – Jack

I loved the small moments at the bar. Edward (Jack) looking at a drink he was just served as if there was a fly in it and saying incredulously, “this is not a luxardo cherry. You gave me a cheap cherry!” And then Jimmy (Francis) owned up to the mistake and served him a better cherry. It was just perfect. – Lauren

Bar with era-appropriate cocktails is always a hit. – Carmen

Having Francis as the bartender REALLY works well, and you pull together a great group of people. – Maia

Dr. Hilarius (Benita) making it clear she could hook anyone up that made an appointment with her. – Amanda

Francis: all the variations of “I just work here lol” – Jack

Cigarettes and cocktails were ON POINT – Stacy

Dramatic moments too, like Frankie (Rob) finding the loose heroin in Tommy’s (Daniel) basement and the fight between Vic (Sam) and Charlotte (Jess). I loved how committed to their characters Delacroix (Lauren) and other socialites were, they were very well acted. – Amanda

Frankie (Rob) offered to furnish the solarium in my weekend estate on Long Island with rattan chairs he had recently acquired from Indonesia. And he was going to help me build a mini-chapel on my property with stones he had removed from a WW2 bombed out cathedral. Turns out my team of paralegals is really good at producing or losing documents. – Suzanne

I wrote down this quote: “I feel like I’m temporarily wired all the time.” I can’t remember who said it. – Holly (Ed. note: It was Arianna.)

I loved seeing everyone reveal who their characters were. Judge Stonefist (Suzanne) absolutely living up to the name. – Amanda

Legs (Amy) scatting. – Carmen

(about Amy scatting) She kept looking at Daniel every 2 seconds holding a note to see if the 10 seconds had passed. – Alex

Vic (Sam) brought his own bottle of alcohol and started doing shots with Frankie (Rob). Pretty sure it was apple juice or something or they would have been passed out in minutes. It was a fun touch and their interaction with the alcohol was like a theater in a theater. – Stacy

Charlotte (Jess) collapsing outside was memorable along with the photographer taking photos. – Chandra

The photographer (Tom) with the Polaroid camera was hilarious & I loved the occasional flash photography! – Devon

The Flash (Tom) taking pictures of the dead body and someone saying they had a pecan allergy while eating the banana bread with pecans. – Allison

Seeing as I played a larger role this year than years past, this was an especially funny one for me. My bossing people towards the non-black-light-black-light out front was a good one, and the entire debate about the statue out on the driveway was hysterically funny. – Alex

The main characters all did a fabulous job staying in character and really committing. and the funny incident with the black light was pretty hilarious. – Chandra

Unintended miss direction with the black/blue light also made it fun. – Allison

Rosalind’s (Lauren) effortless “yes and”-ing when she ran with the suggestion that her impossible ex-husband was traveling in Scotland (but would doubtless be back soon to keep making her life miserable). – Jen

Devin’s paranoia about Communism was hilarious. As Act 2 got underway and I tried to rally people to find the fuses, he asked frantically “Is it the Communists?!” “Yes,” I said. “Communists are trying to burn down my jazz club. I don’t know why. But, Mr. Pembroke, we need your help to save American free enterprise!” – Daniel

Assuring Devin that Graham Astor Pembroke VII would definitely not have to go to school with the riff raff, but arguing that it WAS important to allow sanitation workers to live in the city in which they worked. – Maia

Devin playing so completely against type that he began experiencing the character as a kind of ethical dilemma. – Ryan Mar.

That whole exchange over the “statue” that the totally legitimate business people were carting out of the basement. – Maia

The “body” being dragged out from the basement by the merchant group and into someone’s car??? What the heck was that about???? – Holly

I loved the mobsters’ side quest. The whole puzzle of having to get into the basement and THEN move an absurdly heavy, awkward “body” all the way upstairs, around the house, and into someone’s car without arousing the suspicions of literally everyone in attendance was both thrilling and hilarious. – Jen

The most memorable interaction for me was when we had to convince the Sergeant (Alex) we were delivering a statue and not removing a body. If only we had been a little quicker getting the thing in the car, we could have just walked away. They really were about to cut it open! – Ryan Mal.

The cathedral stones were what was wrapped up in plastic in the basement. The Sergeant (Alex) reminded me that I had helped Frankie (Rob) out by reducing the sentence of one of his lackeys from 10 years down to 3 months. (Racketeering and smuggling) – Suzanne

Carmen saying: “Spin the wheel!” As a body wrapped in a garbage bag is carried out off the basement. – Jack

The mystery prize wheel was fun and seeing the different characters interact with that in character. – Chandra

Arianna’s missing saxophone subplot. – Daniel

I like the added “spin the wheel game” – Stacy

For me, the night really began with Lenny’s (Tom) answer for “What did you eat for breakfast this morning?” That answer (paraphrased): “I melt some cheese on a raw fish. You know, like the Japanese do it.” – Ryan Mar.

“Nothing to see here, Big Tony. Let’s say you and I get outta here and go ’round back” (Legs trying to convince an unconvincing Big Tony (Matt) to not go into the basement to find the “statue” – Carmen

I’m sort of in awe of how Jess did 2 characters who were very different that night, but she is a theater kid, sooo. – Tom

I was in awe of Jess’s low-guile, no-filter Doris. Seriously a tour de force of live-action role playing. – Ryan Mar.

Vic’s (Sam) delightfully in-character phrasing when he told me his secret – sleeping with Charlotte (Jess) “was the biggest mistake of my… month.” – Jen

Frankie (Rob) calling Icepick Irene “Pick” for short – Carmen

Sal (Ryan Mal.) making up various versions of the gambling dice game, Backseat Bingo, in which Mayor Voss (Maia) was particularly fond of. We even got the Judge (Suzanne) to “play for charity” *wink wink* – Carmen