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Perfect Crime, the Off Broadway psychological thriller, will partner with Mensa, the high IQ society, for a special matinee performance on Saturday, December 6, 2008 that will feature an audience of Mensa geniuses who will attempt to solve the mystery behind the longest-running play in the history of New York theater. The event will also feature a post-show discussion with Alison Gaylin, Edgar-nominated author of Hide Your Eyes, You Kill Me and Heartless, who will speak about the psychology of the criminal mind.
"For 21 years, audiences have been fascinated by the secret revelations at the heart of Perfect Crime," said producer Armand Hyatt. "Let's see how long it takes a room full of geniuses to figure out Perfect Crime's legendary ending."Non-Mensa members who want to flex their mental acumen can purchase $41 tickets for the special 2PM performance and post-show discussion by calling the box office at (212) 921-7862 or Ticketmaster.com at (212) 307-4100. $26 student rush tickets are also available by calling or visiting the box office.
A secluded mansion. A would-be murderess. The perfect crime. Margaret Brent is an accomplished Connecticut psychiatrist-and potential cold-blooded killer. When her wealthy husband turns up dead, she gets caught in the middle of a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a deranged patient and the handsome but duplicitous investigator assigned to the case. Perfect Crime has played over 8,800 performances since opening on April 18, 1987. It has been featured in every major New York publication as well as in People magazine and on Entertainment Tonight and The Today Show.Written by Warren Manzi and directed by Jeffrey Hyatt, the cast of Perfect Crime includes Catherine Russell, who has starred in the show since its first performance and played all but four of its performances, Michael Brian Dunn (Broadway's The Life, Guys and Dolls, Big River, Sweeney Todd), Robert Emmet Lunney (Broadway's Mauritius, Deuce, Dancing at Lughnasa) Patrick Robustelli, and Richard Shoberg (24 years as Tom Cudahy on ABC's All My Children).
Greater New York Mensa, the partnering organization, is comprised of 2,150 members from all walks of life and all corners of the globe who now reside in the five boroughs of New York City and the surrounding counties Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam. Greater New York Mensa is the local chapter of Mensa International, a not for profit organization dedicated to identifying and fostering intelligence for the benefit of humanity. The local chapters of Mensa International serve to provide myriad stimulating intellectual and social environments for its members to congregate and fraternize.Alison Gaylin has worked a range of entertainment journalism jobs, from performance art critic to supermarket tabloid reporter. Her first work of fiction, Hide Your Eyes, came out in 2005 and earned an Edgar nomination in the best first novel category. She is also the author of Hide Your Eyes' critically-acclaimed sequel, You Kill Me. She used her celebrity journalism experience to write two hardcover standalones: Trashed, a Hollywood thriller revolving around a reluctant tabloid reporter, and Heartless, which features a soap opera magazine editor whose romantic trip to Mexico goes very, very wrong. Perfect Crime plays at The Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street at Broadway.
