More fun than flowers, more delicious than chocolates, bring your mom to Vermont for a Hollywood glamour Mystery in the Mountains Mother’s Day weekend to DIE for!
Step back in time to 1955 and become a part of The Wilburton’s Hollywood history when RKO Pictures owned The Wilburton Inn!
Pack your sparkliest dresses and sense of adventure. Getaway with murder at the musical mystery weekend at The Wilburton in Manchester Vermont.
SYNOPSIS
It is 1955, and the new owners of RKO Studios (famous for King Kong, Citizen Kane, screwball comedies and the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movie musicals) are holding a secret board meeting at The Wilburton to choose the team for one last movie. In a clash of ambition and revenge, the stars and executives compete to make one last RKO studio production. Everyone is dying to be a part of it! Will this swanky soiree include getting away – with murder?
Guests are invited to join the scheming stars, dance in top hats and tails, ‘put on the Ritz’, take a screen test, and compare clues to try to solve the mystery of THE MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE. Dress in festive cocktail attire, Hollywood glamour, or as your favorite RKO movie character to follow the action through the grand salon, the library and the Billiard Room of the Wilburton mansion. The mystery dinner party extravaganza includes a three-course dinner, and a cash bar with themed specialty cocktails.
A professional photographer will capture portraits as a souvenir of this unique Vermont experience. Prizes for best dressed and the team who solves the mystery.
At the Friday welcome party, meet the characters and learn more about the real history of RKO Pictures and the Million Dollar Movie. Saturday, after a bountiful country breakfast, take a guided tour through through Manchester Village. Sunday morning, salute mom with a Mother’s Day mom-osa mimosa cocktail at breakfast while dining with sweeping mountain views in the solarium or outdoors on the terrace.
Read about the theatreical fun in Broadway World, AARP and The Boston Globe!
Up a winding driveway, perched on the crest of a hill, The 1902 Wilburton mansion transports you to an elegant country manor like an Agatha Christie novel or game of Clue - the perfect setting for a whodunnit!
Stay in romantic mansion guest rooms or share the fun with a group of friends in our vacation homes or suites.
Bring your fur-baby and include your 4-legged family too. Click to see the Mother’s Day doggie slumber paw-ty events.
For more information see WILBURTON.COM or call 802-362-2500
Murder Mystery Weekend Package includes:
• 2 nights lodging in The Wilburton mansion and villa guest rooms.
• Friday 6:00-7:30pm: Meet the suspects at a wine & cheese reception
• Friday 8:00-9:30pm: Mother’s Day Cabaret
• Saturday & Sunday 8:30 - 10am: Country inn breakfast featuring pancakes with VT maple syrup, eggs, bacon & breads from our family farm & bakery.
• Saturday 10 - 11am: Group doggie stroll through historic Manchester Village.
• Guided tour at The Museum of the Creative Process.
• Saturday 6:30 - 10pm: The murder mystery musical dinner party to die for.
• Prizes for most festive costumes and best sleuthing.
• Professional photographer
TO BOOK
• Click here to pick your favorite lodging starting at $235/night.
• Click here to add $150 per person + tax and service for the package.
Call 802-362-2500 for questions or help with your reservation.
Optional splurges:
• Pamper yourself with in room massages $125/hour • Champagne & Chocolates in your room $60. •. Save 50% for a 3rd night stay.
Pick your favorite guest room in the 1902 Clue like Mansion
The tradition of mystery weekends at The Wilburton began 30 years ago when innkeeper Georgette Wasserstein Levis wrote a murder mystery homage, The Brothers Rosenblood, to her sister, Wendy Wasserstein’s Broadway hit, The Sisters Rosensweig. Since 2013, Tajlei Levis, known for writing vintage literary musicals, like Edith Wharton’s Glimpses of the Moon, has created new mystery events each year, inspired by Wilburton and local Vermont history.
Save the date for the Fall Mystery Weekend: November 14 - 16, 2025. Watch the movie below!
Prior Murder Mystery Weekends Include:
Recent mysteries include THE MURDER AT WIT’S END. It is 1924, and Alexander Woollcott - New York Times drama critic and literary influencer- has invited select guests to join his famous friends - Harpo Marx, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Parker and other witty members of the Algonquin Round Table- as members of an exclusive Vermont island club for the coming season. A rave review from Woollcott could make any book a bestseller, any play a hit, so Broadway producers, authors and stars are competing for favor in battles of wits, songs, and parlor games. Prospective members will have to play Woollcott’s favorite game of croquet (and he cheats) and solve The Murder Game. Some are vying to win. Others are dying to get in.
