Cannon Youth Center presents: Moolah Mystery Dinner

The Cannon Youth Center’s Drama Club served up a mystery for their first performance in front of an audience May 20.

The Moolah Mystery Dinner Theater included dinner and, three-fourths the way through, a break for attendees to try and guess who called the police.

The story was about the Harper family. Robin and Rodney Harper’s mother mysteriously disappeared four years earlier, but writes to her two children. The children’s aunt, Heidi Houvenagle, is often around but acts strangely.

The children find a bag containing $20,000 one day when a group of their friends are over to work on a class project.

They begin to ask their father, Doug Harper, and Aunt Heidi questions. Doug Harper finally spills the beans, explaining that with the family facing money issues, his wife and Aunt Heidi decided to rob a bank. Riddled with guilt, Doug Harper’s wife turned herself in, but couldn’t face telling her children the truth.

After the confession, the family hears sirens.

Anyone who guessed who called the police, won a prize.

The drama club, run by Stacy Zevetchin, spent two months working on the play.

“We wanted to do something a little interactive,” she said.

The club consists of children from ages eight to 12. The club performed the play with eight members.

Zevetchin began the club in January. She had worked with theater in other places she had lived and when she moved to Cannon, she offered to run a club at the youth center.

Zevetchin said they purchased the play from a Christian playwright out of Georgia. The money made from her plays goes back into her church.

Nahume Mosby, 11, played the part of Aunt Heidi. She said she thought the group did well.

“We got to get into character. It was hard to act like someone you’re not,” Mosby said.

She said being in a club is enjoyable.

“It’s been wild and crazy. We’ve had some good laughs,” she said.

Tech Sgt. Shana Wearing attended to watch her daughter, Nia Wearing, play a police officer.

“I thought it was an excellent performance,” Wearing said. “It was something different but a good different.”