![]() The musical Christmas Story oversells its good cheer, this Drood doesn’t have to, it actually is that entertaining. Likewise, costume designer William Ivey Long has convincingly captured the luxury of Victorian costuming. Set designer Anita Louizos, for one, has created a lushly inviting facsimile of a late 19th Century British music hall, which lends the proceedings warm support. Block positively glows playing the “pants role” of the doomed Drood.ĭrood is intended to be silly fun, and nobody in the creative team or cast spends any time pretending otherwise. ![]() Crisparkle, Will Chase seems totally at home as the moustache-twirling Jasper, and Stephanie J. The Mystery a Edwin Drood moved up Broadways Imperial Theatre, where it played for a total of 608 performances, starring Betty Buckley, Cleo Laine, and George Rose. Gregg Edelman seems to be having a blast playing the dotty Rev. Five 1986 Outer Reviews Circle Rewards, including Outstanding Breadth Musikalisch Champion The 2013 Drama Side Award for Sound Design Nominee. For example, there’s a patter song that’s almost incomprehensible however, the lyrics aren’t the point of the song, the sheer spectacle of speed is the point, so who cares!ĭirector Scott Ellis makes fine use of an irrepressibly energetic and committed company, headed by the incandescent Chita Rivera and Jim Norton. Times Colonist-Review Victoria News-Preview Article Janis La Couve. And whenever I did, I decided it would be quibbling with a show that succeeds remarkably well on the modest terms it sets. Return to the grand oldays of the music hall and be drawn into a play within a play. On November 13, 2012, a revised version of the show returned to Broadway at Studio 54. In 1987, Drood premiered at the Savoy Theatre in London's West End. Well, with Connecticut Repertory Theatres latest production THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, Rupert Holmes Tony Award winning musical, that happens every performance - making for a wild, wacky, and. The production won five Tony Awards and ran for 608 performances. I had a thoroughly good time, rarely thinking this could have been written or directed in a different way. On December 2, 1985, the show opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, starring Betty Buckley, Cleo Laine and George Rose. Each performance ends differently, depending on what the audience decides. There, a raucous troupe of variety performers mounts a staging of the unfinished novel. James Hitchens/Mayor Sapsea – Alan Smithee Charles Burden Kai Colson Duncan Hoehn Stephan “Jack” Jammer Naomi Lamarche Lisette Merlano Nicolas Nelson Kevin Nickens Michelle Nickens Jessica Ogden Jaclyn O’Hara Olusheyi Olaguon Matthew Kahn Robyn Smith Peters Gregory Robinson Jr.This revival is the best taste of good old-fashioned musical comedy fun so far this season! Or more accurately, good old musical hall fun, since Rupert Holmes, the musical’s author and composer, has set the Dickens whodunit in the context of a Victorian British musical hall. Montague Pruitt/Ensemble – Steven Woodell Nicholas Michael/Horace – Stephan “Jack” Jammer Violet Balfor/Ensemble – Michelle Nickens Nick Cricker Sr./Durdles – Charles BurdenĬhristopher Lyon/Ensemble – Gregory Robinson Jr. The Mystery of Edwin Drood A clever take on the Broadway musical murder mystery, The Mystery of Edwin Drood(1985) is typically the first title of this genre to come to mind thanks in large part to the unconventional use of the audience in deciding the story’s outcome. Review by Thom Geier from Entertainment Weekly '.for a show doing triple duty as musical, choose-your-own-ending mystery and time-travel device, Drood is jolly good fun. ![]() Victor Grinstead/Neville Landless – Joe SviscoĬedric Montcrief/Rev. Janet Conover/Helena Landless – Jessica Ogden Stage Manager James Throttle – Kevin NickensĪlice Nutting/Edwin Drood – Naomi Lamarcheĭeirdre Peregrine/Rosa Bud – Robyn Smith-PetersĪngela Prysock/Princess Puffer – Stefanie Svisco Chairman William Cartwright – Patrick Vaughn
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