The long-running Orlando dinner attraction, MurderWatch Mystery Theatre, will give its final performance on Saturday, December 27. That may seems a ways off, but since the show only performs on weekends, there are just six performances left.

If you never saw that fun show, try to seize one of the these performnces and savor a bit of Orlando history as it fades into memory.

From the Dreamland Productions announcement:

After 20 years in the Dinner Theatre commerce, the end of an era is here. Yesterday, we were informed by both of our Orlando area locations that our Dinner Shows have been cancelled. My Big Fat Grease Wedding is cancelled immediately. It tried to defy the odds as a new dinner show, opening just a few months ago, but the odds won. MurderWatch Mystery Theatre, which has been running continuously for 20 years, 19 of those years at the Regal Sun Resort (formerly the Grosvenor Resort) will perform its final public show on Saturday, December 27, 2008. The economy really is naughty. We just can’t overcome it.

Here are the remaining dates of 6pm performances at the Regal Sun Resort, 1850 Hotel Plaza Blvd, Lake Buena Vista, FL: All remaining

Saturdays in October and November PLUS Friday December 5, Saturday December 13, Saturday December 20, and Saturday December 27. All dinner shows start at 6pm; we propose arrival by 5:30pm. ADVANCE RESERVATIONS ARE called for - 407-828-4444 ext.4. Our web site www.murderwatch.com has Two-For-One coupons available. Print out a coupon and bring it with you when you check in at the restaurant. Shows are held inside the hotel on the Fifth Floor (Mezzanine Level) in the Lakeview Restaurant.

We thank you in advance for attending MurderWatch Mystery dinner show, a show where YOU get caught in the act! We greatly appreciate your support by the final two decades.

Dreamland Productions will continue to do ALL shows as conference entertainment. So, agents, please continue to hire us. We are a fully equipped touring theatrical company and we will continue that portion of our commerce. We already have conference shows booked through next summer, and hope to get additional conference show bookings. Please recommend us to your conference clients. After that December, please remove any advertisements/reviews for the dinner show at the Regal Sun Resort.

The end of an era, indeed.

Original post by Kelly Monaghan