The story for “Eat Cake” grew from a character dreamed up by one of the cast members backstage during last year’s springtime Opera House performance. Those awards will be given out on the day of the final performance, Stallings said. They’ll also have the chance to vote for their favorite performers, choosing among actors Jonathan Blair, Rebecca Witherell, Heather McGaha, Monica Lorenz, Devanne Fredette, Calvin Johnson, Nicole Johnson, and Tiffany Cheney. Toward the end of the performance, the interactive production allows the audience an opportunity to guess at the solution to the mystery before the culprit is revealed. Who is responsible for the insanity? Is anyone truly innocent?” asks the show’s promotional flyer. “When a series of failed assassinations at multiple targets rock the Marquis’ apartments, a madcap maze of motives and mistaken identity is exposed. But Brigitte is no tame Eliza, she’s using her access to Versailles to sneak dangerous revolutionaries into the palace. In a Pygmalion-style plot with a lively twist, the show opens with Brigitte the Bawd being schooled in the ways of the aristocracy by the eccentric Marquis Mauvaishas. It’s a “wacky comedy spoof” set in the Palace of Versailles, “a farcical nod to the madness of Versailles and the French Revolution.” Unlike last year’s show, said Stallings, “Eat Cake” is not a musical. According to creator Daniel Stallings, it is the company’s “most lavish production yet.” Like last year’s popular murder mystery opera, the show was inspired by and written specifically for the Opera House stage. Chase Stevens Las Vegas Review-Journal Mystery Productions returns to the Amargosa Opera House on Saturday for a four-week run of “Eat Cake,” an all new mystery comedy set in 18th century France. Attendees outside of the Amargosa Opera House following the season-opening performance in Death Valley Junction, Calif.

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