As Production Designer for Spotlight Playhouse's production of Clue: The Musical, my primary task was to reverse engineer elements of the classic board game for use in the show.

During the course of the play, Mr. Boddy calls upon members of the audience to select cards at random to determine who will kill him, where, and with what.

To help in the game, oversized suspect, room, and weapon cards were created (not to mention a replica of the Confidential Case File envelope.)
To help the audience figure out whodunnit, the ticket stub was utilized as the Detective's notepad from the game.

The reverse side of each card was designed to replicate the classic game card background with two notable exceptions. First, the name "SPOTLIGHT PLAYHOUSE" was substituted for the "PARKER BROTHERS" text on the original. Second, each card was marked with a hidden code allowing the actor playing Mr. Boddy to know the chosen card from the back without the audience noticing.

Even larger versions of the room cards were used in conjuction with representational furniture to create the minimalist illusion of having six separate rooms on the same stage. (For the sake of balance the musical only utilized six out of the original nine rooms from the game.)