Past Events

 

 

"A Gram of Greed, A Dash of Death" - May 31, 2008

 

A murder-mystery-comedy performed within the rooms in the Center. The event was cast with and written by all local talent and included (from top left to right) Laurie Cagle as Crime Scene Investigator the Second, Quentin Graham as Crime Scene Investigator the First, Stroud Holt as Charleston Q. Balfour, Martha Barber as Crime Scene Investigator the Fourth, Dorothy Turnauckas as Crime Scene Investigator the Third, Tedi Graham as Teeter Tomazelli, Tarrant King as Nestor Groat, John Turnauckas as Valentino Santana, Christa Abernathy as Bootsie Velvoon, Maggie Barber as Crime Scene Investigator the Fifth, and Bob Segal as the deceased Gaston LeTourniquet.

 

Also in the cast was Justin Horne as Chief Investigator Les Babble and introducing Marcus Barber as the chef Charlemagne Longfellow Remington VII.

 

The plot as follows...

 

It was a dark and stormy clear and seasonably warm night late afternoon,

and a murder has been committed........

 

Gaston LeTourniquet, owner of the local gourmet restaurant, "Le Gourmand Relacher," has invited his employees to a free dinner (because to feed the employees costs less than Christmas bonuses), and has subsequently been murdered in the lobby of the McAlester Scottish Rite Masonic Center. Patrons were invited from the McAlester Public Library from across the street to help investigate who did the deed and with what instrument. Those who solved the crime correctly won fabulous prizes.

 

Proceeds went to the The McAlester Scottish Rite RiteCare Childhood Language Clinic and The McAlester Public Library

 

 

 

 

 

"McAlester's Musical Heritage" - October 7th, 2007

 

The McAlester Scottish Rite was proud to donate an afternoon in the Egyptian Auditorium to the McAlester Arts and Humanities Council as they hosted the Dr. Nettie Williams and the Oklahoma Master Chorale from Oklahoma City as they performed a selection of operatic works in conjunction with Oklahoma's statewide centennial celebrations. Selections were chosen as works theatregoers of a century past would have enjoyed and included excerpts from Mozart's Requiem and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, as well as works from Verdi and Rossini.