Lex 18’s best-selling dinner show is an unforgettable, immersive mystery dinner experience that takes you back to Asheville, 1929. The show returns on July 31st.
Dinner, music, singing performances, fine acting, a grand dinner and unexpected twist awaits dinner guests. Blending historical facts, setting and personages with fictionalized events that are both fun and fascinating.
THE SETUP
It is September 1929 and guests at Lex 18 await the arrival of the evening’s honoree, native son Thomas Wolfe. Returning for a brief visit to his childhood home, Thomas has been invited to the former Eureka Saloon, now Lex 18, to dine with guests and perform a reading from the manuscript of his new book Look Homeward, Angel. The manuscript is scheduled to be mailed to the publisher this week, so this is a truly private advance reading. The intimate dinner, complimented by a visiting pianist, takes a dark and scandalous turn. Multiple motives, suspicions and chaos ensues. Fortunately, there is a special guest who can solve the mystery and return peace to the evening while revealing a shocking future..
The proprietress of the Eureka Saloon has made great plans for her guests’ enjoyment including securing bootlegged wine, beer and whisky, a four-course dinner affair and a hired jazz musician from Washington, DC to hear and see the young novelist he admires.
After Mr. Wolfe’s reading of a rather spicy excerpt from his “tell-all” novel, a lovely dining experience accompanied by live music and song appears to unfold seamlessly. Suddenly, however, in the midst of all this enjoyment the evening takes a dark turn. A deceptive plot, prickled with mysterious motives and unwanted suspicions, is revealed in the chaos.
Luckily, a visiting guest in attendance can turn the evening’s digression and resolve the accusations and defensive posturing. While reluctant to step into the role, he may open a bigger can of worms than anyone has bargained for.
STYLE AND ENGAGEMENT
This uniquely designed dinner experience blends historical facts, setting and personages with fictionalized events that are both fun and fascinating. With an integrated cast of 12 characters, guests’ interactions and involvement can range from fully engaged mystery sleuths to casual reserved observers. The only instruction is to play your authentic self.
DRESS
There is one guest requirement which is to dress for dinner in the style of the 1920s and 1930s. If your closet does not offer the option, we do ask our diners to dress semi formal; jacket and tie for men and cocktail attire for women. A week prior, guests will receive a mailed invitation from the proprietress of the Eureka Saloon (present-day LEX 18) providing directions and information detailing the evening’s event.
Tickets are $55 per individual and include a cocktail tasting, four-course dinner, live musical performances, and an immersive mystery dinner experience.
Please visit www.lex18avl.com for additional information.
Lex 18 Supper Club & Moonshine Bar is a Prohibition era designed experience of fine dining, craft cocktails and live jazz music.Our special events include Downton Abbey Dinner Theatrical Experiences, Thomas Wolfe Myster Dinner Experience, Vaudevillian Irish Wake and monthly special events and dinner theatre. Extraordinary meals are created from regionally sourced and organic foods of the Appalachian region. Cocktails are uniquely created from our extensive whiskeys, moonshines, fruits and hand crafted elixirs. Live jazz music and vintage 1920’s black and white silent movies add ambience and diversion while maintaining a intimate and romantic ambiance.This is truly one of the most unique dining venues in Asheville.