Way Off Broadway and Walkersville Southern Offer First Public Mystery Train

Earlier this year, The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, through its outside theatrical producing division, WOB LIVE! Entertainment, and Walkersville Southern Railroad formed a partnership to produce Interactive Mystery Trains for the railroad in addition to its other excursions and dinner trains. Since the partnership began, these mystery trains have been offered as an option for groups booking the train for their private functions. Now, for the first time, an Interactive Mystery Dinner Train will be opened to the general public.

The mystery dinner train will be Saturday evening, October 22nd with a departure time of 6:00 p.m. Tickets will be $69 per person and includes a three course meal and the mystery. With Halloween just around the corner, guests are invited to come in costume.

As with any of Way Off Broadway's mysteries, guests on the train will be introduced to zany, over-the-top characters who all have a motive to commit murder. When a murder does occur, it is up to the guests to help the detective solve the case.

Detectives and mysteries are a huge part of our entertainment culture. From early characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple to the countless number of crime drama series on television today, finding one's self involved in a web of intrigue and solving a case is a favorite past time. That's never been more true than at Way Off Broadway where the special interactive mysteries are some of the most popular events at the dinner theatre.

The partnership between Way Off Broadway and Walkersville Southern Railroad brings together two of the area's leading amusement companies, combining their individually unique assets to create entertainment experiences like no other in or around Frederick.

"We're very excited to offer our first public mystery dinner train," says Brooke Kovalcik, Walkersville Southern Railroad's General Administrator. "They have been such a success with groups booking the whole train for their private events we wanted to be able to offer these mysteries to the general public as well."

"The idea of mystery on an evening train ride is classic," adds Justin M. Kiska, Chairman of WOB LIVE! Entertainment, and the creative ‘criminal mastermind' behind all of Way off Broadway's interactive mysteries. "To this day, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is still one of the most well know stories of all time."

For more information about Way Off Broadway's interactive mysteries, visit www.wayoffbroadway.com.

To book tickets for the October 22nd mystery dinner train, visit www.wsrr.org or call (877) 363-WSRR.

WOB LIVE! Entertainment & Media is a multi-faceted division of The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre which has been a leader in the region's performing arts community since it first opened. WOB LIVE! was created in 2009 to manage and develop all of the company's activities outside of the theatre itself. Under the direction of its Chairman, Justin M. Kiska, WOB LIVE! Entertainment was formed to develop, produce, and presents stage productions at venues throughout the area. www.wayoffbroadway.com

Walkersville Southern Railroad, celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year, operates regular trains on weekends from May through October, with charters and special trains running all year. From scenic excursions for the whole family to romantic dinner trains, history and adventure can be found aboard the Walkersville Southern. The railway line between Walkersville and Frederick, on which the Walkersville Southern currently runs, was built between 1869 and 1872 as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Frederick Secondary. In 1968 when the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with the New York Central, the line was part of the resulting Penn Central Railroad. In 1993 the railroad began offering excursion trains, turning it into a one-of-a-kind entertainment destination in Frederick County. www.wrss.org

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