The Show: Murder Speaks Easy
The Location: Royal Gorge Route
The Audience: Public
The Cast
Ken Markus as Fast Eddie, Nycholle Archuleta as Bubbles, Don Moon as Big Julie, Heidi Link as Roxie, and Rene Perreault as Shifty. (Mike Stevens took the picture.)
Eddie and Bubbles...
... mingle with the audience and tell stories about the lives of Chicago-land gangsters.
Shifty...
The eyes give it away.
Jan
She met him unexpectedly on a crowded train, and suddenly the memories came flooding back...
Green Light
Even to those of us unfamiliar with train lore, it's clear we've got the go-ahead...
... to drive on around the bend...
... while the moon follows like a little cloud.
Big Julie and Bubbles...
wait in the dining car before going on in the mystery car.
... They're joined by a couple of swells and a doll.
A Warm Late-August Night...
... brings guests out onto the open-air car, even in the dark.
Pouring On The Coal
- or at least, the diesel fuel - the engineer races toward mountain twilight.
Decision
In the mystery car, Bubbles must make up her mind.
You, sir!
... are the perfect one to lead this team.
A Smile Like That...
... could ruin a man...
... but it might be worth it.
The Solution To The Mystery...
... can be quite entertaining.
A Spin...
Can also be entertaining - at least to the gentlemen.
Did We Win?
Maybe...
Heading Back To The Station...
... and still sexy in the dark.
(The following pictures are from different shows at various times and locations:)
One Banana!
Sometimes fruit is a weapon.
(Show Murder On Safari)
Two Banana!
Sometimes one fruit is worth a thousand words.
(Show Murder On Safari)
Charleston!
(Show Murder Speaks Easy at the Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming)
Bertha...
... is a kindly woman with a heart of gold. She runs the House of Leather just a mile outside town along the railroad tracks.
(Character from Murder In Buffalo Chip)
Jen...
Is the show's Assistant Director. She has a secret the Director doesn't know.
(Show Murder On Safari on the Royal Gorge Railroad.)
Oh, there's nothing halfway
About the Red Herring way to greet you...
(Show on the Royal Gorge Railroad.)
How sad was your passing, sweet miners' canary,
Way down in the mine where it's not light and airy.
Way down in the dark where you puked your last breath
To give life to others in vomiting death...
(Photo from Murder Speaks Easy; poem from Murder Rides the Rails)
