Moose Murders

1. Moose Murders
Devon DeYoung

2. Plot
A storm traps the Holloway family in their newly
purchased Wild Moose Lodge for a crazy night no
one will ever forget.
 Murder
 Incest
 Paraplegic
 MOOSE!!!

3. Eugene O’Neill Theatre
 13 previews
 Opened February 22, 1983
 Closed February 22, 1983

4. Arthur Bicknell
 “If your name is Arthur Bicknell — or anything
like it — change it”
Dennis Cunningham- CBS
 Literary agent & publicist
 Moose Murdered: Or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love My Broadway Bomb

5. Eve Arden
 Hello, Dolly! & Auntie Mame
 Broadway Comeback
 “artistic differences”

6. Holland Taylor
 Needed money
 1 week to learn

7. Reviews
 “From now on there will be two groups of
theater-goers in this world: those who have seen
‘Moose Murders,’ and those who have not”
 "the season's most stupefying flop - a show so
preposterous that it made minor celebrities out
of everyone who witnessed it, whether from on
stage or in the audience”
 “the worst play I’ve ever seen on a Broadway
stage”
Frank Rich- The New York Times

8. Reviews Cont.
 staged by “a blind director repeatedly kicked in
the groin”
John Simon- New York Magazine
 “Those of us who have witnessed the play… will
undoubtedly hold periodic reunions, in the noble
tradition of survivors of the Titanic”
John Simon- New York Magazine
 a play that “would insult the intelligence of an
audience consisting entirely of amoebas”
Brendan Gill- The New Yorker

9. New York City’s Beautiful Theater Collective

10. The End

11. Works Cited
"Arthur Bicknell Learns To Love His Bomb: Q&A
with the Author of "Moose Murders"" Artinfo.
N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.
"PLAYBILL." Moose Murders on Broadway. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.
"Remember ‘Moose Murders’? She Was There —
Onstage." ArtsBeat Remember Moose Murders
She Was There Onstage Comments. N.p., n.d.
Web. 9 Dec. 2013.