Knat Scatt Private Eye is a two-act, 1930s-style film noir musical, which played for an extended run at The Theater Building in Chicago in 1986,[1] featuring a young Steve Carell.
After attending a performance of Knat Scatt Private Eye at the Second City, independent producers, Robert and Marion Mortimer commissioned the writers to rework the one-act musical into a two-act Broadway-style production for adults.
Composer and lyricist, Charlie Silliman,[3] and script writer, Eric Forsberg rewrote the original children's show to be more appealing to a general audience.
The second production of Knat Scatt Private Eye starred Walter Lewis, Mary Weiss, Lori Hammel, Tim Scott Ferguson, Steve Carell,[5] John Richmond Kenney, Collette Hawley, Marla Cahan, Carla Kendal, Don Neason, Brian-Mark Conover, Travis Lawhon, Phil Martini, and Marilyn Rudnick.
Mary Weiss[7] was one of the creators of The Real Live Brady Bunch[8] at The Annoyance Theater, which led to a series of feature film remakes.