Murder, ReWrote is both send-up and homage to the beloved Angela Lansbury TV series. handbagtheater | ✍️ JackHelbig
“Ed Rutherford approached me,” Howe remembers, “about this idea he had, his brainchild. He knew and loved and, in my estimation, is obsessed withepisode of [the show]. I’m not one of those gays who is into that show, or. But I read his script, and I thought, this is clever, you know, a mishmash of all the things that Hell in a Handbag is known for, all those classic Hollywood/TV tropes. And I’m like, ‘I think this could be very fun.
“It was very—,” Howe begins, then pauses, gathers his thoughts, and starts again. “I’m used to writing very much like Jerry Herman [or] Sondheim. When I write, I’ll have a lyric thought and a music thought and they kind of combine.” Working with Rutherford, Howe had to think, “’How do I now put my music on top of that?’ It was a whole other part of my brain in a way.”
“So for people who know the show well, there’s definitely jokes based on J. B. Fletcher’s legion of nieces and nephews,” Rutherford says. In particular, there’s Jessica’s nephew, Grady. “One thing I sort of pride myself on is some of the stuff we touch on in the script are really, really deep cuts. Case in point is there’s an episode called, I swear this is the title, ‘.’ There’s a character in that episode called Deputy Marigold who, despite only being in the one episode, definitely makes a big impression. We took her and exaggerated some qualities of her to make it more of a parody and made her the police detective in this story.
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