The way Nick Piacente sees it, if he does his job right, people will want him dead.

Not Nick, really, but the character he plays: Mr. Boddy, the owner of Boddy Manor, the mansion in which “Clue: The Musical” is set.

Iona Prep’s Prep Players present “Clue” – based on the whodunnit-with-which-weapon-in-which-room board game – in three performances this week: one on Thursday and two on Saturday.

Like the board game, there are suspects, weapons and rooms in which the deed is done.

The weapons are a wrench, a pipe, a candlestick, a knife, a revolver or a rope.

The murder takes place in the conservatory, study, billiard room, lounge, ballroom or kitchen.

The usual suspects are all here:

And there’s the victim: Mr. Boddy, who is not very nice and who clearly has it coming to him.

Piacente, 17, a senior who lives in Yonkers, is president of the Prep Players.

“I’ve never been a bad guy on stage before, which has thrown me out of my comfort zone a little bit, but it’s cool,” he says. “I treat Mrs. White like dirt. I swindle Mr. Green out of money. I make this known, so people will not like me.”

The book is by Peter DePietro, with lyrics by Tom Chiodo and music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci.

The music is “creepy and mysterious,” Piacente says. “Sometimes we tango, sometimes we disco.”

Piacente says the whole evening is interactive, with the audience invited to draw cards at the beginning to decide the suspect, weapon and room. Then the game is afoot, and the audience will play along as the musical unfolds, ruling out some suspects and, with a little deductive reasoning, figuring out whodunnit, where and with what.

Boddy is the instruction manual for the show, introducing the game and bringing the audience along.

The show changes depending on who is chosen, and Mr. Boddy drops hints to help audience members form their opinions and follow along with a game sheet in the program.

That’s not to say there aren’t red herrings: After all, Boddy is a baddy.

The set will be a series of platforms for each of the rooms – arranged in the Iona Prep gym. The characters will move among the rooms, based on what the audience has chosen.

“There are 216 potential finales,” Piacente says.

Director Jason Summers, a ‘98 graduate of the school, directs the cast of 17, calling on some outside talent to pull the show off.

Iona Prep is an all-boys Catholic school, so he has enlisted students from The Ursuline School, an all-girls Catholic school just down the road.

The musical director is Lynn Fusco, the producer and musical director at Harrison High School, where Summers directed “Miss Saigon” earlier in the spring-musical season.

Summers says he likes the interactive nature of the show and the way the set allows for some comic chases during the murder scene.

The show runs 90 minutes without intermission.

“The music is a lot more challenging than anyone might expect,” Summers said. “It’s dissonant and has a very mysterious feel to it that provides an atmosphere of doom and impending peril that helps create the mood.”

If this sounds like fun, there’s actually a 217th finale to consider: You, with a ticket, in the Iona Prep gym.

Building Character
Watch a video interview with Nick Piacente as Mr. Boddy at www. lohud.com/ localtheater.

“Clue: The Musical”
Where: Iona Prep, 255 Wilmot Road, New Rochelle.
When: 8 p.m. Thursday; 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets: $12, $8 for students.
Details: www.ionaprep.org.
With: Ali Accumanno, John Powers, Emily Asaro, Keven Cabrera, Lauren Banner, Colin Albanese, Serina Congionti, Matt Galloway, Mike Foster, Dylan Sanders, Nicholas Galanin, Christian Steele, Siobhan Gordan, Mike Cioffi, Gabriela Gowdie, Michael Madonna, Tom Ladis, Will Shanahan, Maggie Patterson, Anthony Tochet, Anthony Pellegrino, John Daly, Peter Pellegrino, Chris DelGardo, Nick Piacente, Ariza Sumitro, Candice Ralph, Brent Warn, Fernando Sosa, Nick Golom, Jimmy Walsh, Hilary Giorgi, Salvatore Zullo, Chris Nardi, Danny Scappaticci, Sameer Mian, Michael Weintraub, Harry Fleming, Pamela Villeneuve, Leigh Finnegan, Mitch Turner, Roy Mullings, Mark Renaudin