Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

TEKOA - I was given the absolute pleasure and opportunity to audition March 21 for the new musical mystery dinner theater coming to Tekoa.

The musical "Mystery at Pirate Cove Inn" will be performed for two nights this year on Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8.

After speaking with the writer and director of the musical, Donna Didier, I was welcomed to go to Empire Theatre to learn more about the program.

I was encouraged to audition earlier that day and thought, "why not? I survived the Army so far; the theatre couldn't be that challenging."

Boy, I was wrong.

Before entering the theatre,...