Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Ken Ludwig, the farceur behind Lend Me a Tenor and a recent Asolo Luminary Award honoree, turns Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles into a quick-change comedy in Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. The trick is in the casting. Five actors cover more than 40 characters, and while Holmes and Watson stay put, everyone else cycles through disguises and outsized accents on the trail of the hound. Asolo Repertory Theatre puts it on in the Mertz Theatre under director Chari Arespacochaga, whose credits include Primary Trust. For all the costume changes, the script keeps the suspense of the original working, so the case still has to be solved.