SCHENECTADY — Although Bruce Jordan and Marilyn Abrams have been partly responsible for killing the same person in the nation’s capital almost 15,000 times since 1987, she always came back to life. Whether she will be resurrected again, at least at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, is unclear.
“It’s closing, but it doesn’t really feel final,” Jordan said Sunday.
Jordan and Abrams adapted a serious 1963 Swiss mystery play into the stage comedy “Shear Madness.” The campy, interactive whodunit is set in a hair salon, where the unseen landlady upstairs is murdered. An audience vote decides which of the six characters is responsible. It premiered at the Lake George Dinner Theatre in 1978, opened in Boston in 1980 and at the Kennedy Center in 1987…