The post wherein I comment on Mystery Hunt puzzles

So, as noted, I didn't actually spend that much of this year's Mystery Hunt solving puzzles. That's not going to stop me, though, from writing up some thoughts on a few individual puzzles.
( Spoilers! Leo and Max go to prison! Or do they?! )

Once more: congratulations and thanks to Codex, and most especially to brokenwndw and dumble, for an excellent and extraordinarily clean Hunt, and for giving me an unexpected opportunity to spend a weekend writing showtune parodies. (In a future post: our lyrics!)

What I really spent the Mystery Hunt doing

So as I mentioned, I spent at least as much time at this year's Mystery Hunt writing and performing showtune parodies as I did actually solving puzzles. And so I thought I'd post my team's lyrics here for posterity, since I suspect a lot of people on my friends list would be amused by them. The way the Hunt worked was that each musical had to incorporate the answers to the two corresponding metapuzzles, so there are spoilers for the meta answers within. For convenience I've labeled the songs being parodied.

( A Circus Line )

( Okla-holmes-a )

( Into the Woodstock )

( Mayan Fair Lady )

( Phantom of the Operator )

( Ogre of La Mancha )

As I said, I had a great time at this Mystery Hunt, although not for the exact reasons I expected to. But that's not what's important right now. What's important is this:

Borbonicus and Bodley impressed us all with a Mystery Hunt that tested our skills not only as puzzlers, but as cabaret performers as well! While they treated us to a weekend of challenging puzzle solving, we treated them to the equivalent of a weekend on the town at six of their favorite musicals. Not often at a Mystery Hunt do I hear a waltz, a softshoe, or any other kind of catchy number that gets my toes tapping, but this year featured a full half dozen! Well, I could write elegies for this Hunt all day, but I'll just conclude by saying that not even Kubla Khan, at his famous pleasure-dome of Xanadu, could have known such delights as these. Five out of five coins!