Edwin drood broadway 2012 plus#

Based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, this bawdy but good-natured tongue-in-cheek work will be both directed and conducted by the OSU School of Music’s Director of Opera, A. This fall, the OSU Opera joins forces with the Ohio State University Departments of Theatre and Dance to present the full-scale musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes. Click here for more information.Add to Calendar 16:00:00 18:00:00 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' The Solve-It-Yourself Broadway Musical - Winner of 5 Tony Awards, including Best Musical! Currently playing at Studio 54 at 254 W.

Starring Jim Norton, Chita Rivera, Will Chase, Stephanie J.

Book, Music, Lyrics and Orchestrations by Rupert Holmes.

It’s a hoot.īy John Soltes / Publisher / The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which concludes March 10, will provide ample entertainment for both expert and novice theatergoers. But how great it would be to see Rivera’s Puffer or Chase’s Jasper get indicted. At my performance, we elected to have Crisparkle (certainly a credit to Edelman’s performance) as the murderer of Drood. Because Dickens died while writing this final tale, present-day theatergoers get to place the final period on his work in progress. The audience is called on to decide the outcome of the story. The greatest fun in the long (too long) evening is in the final minutes. Don’t try to follow the plot too hard it becomes quite confusing to understand how all of the elements fit together. The songs are catchy, and the cast sells them well. This back-and-forth and breaking down of the fourth wall makes for some great one-liners and scenarios.

Edwin drood broadway 2012 plus#

Everyone plays Dickens’ characters, plus actors at a local music hall who are charged with bringing Drood to life. Rather than present the tale as a dedicated theatrical adaptation, Holmes, who wrote the book, music and lyrics, decides to cast the story within a story. There’s the priest, the bum, the foreigner, the mysterious gentleman. An enormous cast of stock characters circulate around society. Crisparkle role shouldn’t be this much fun. Gregg Edelman only has to look out at the audience, and he instantly receives a hearty chuckle. Jim Norton is in command as the Chairman, the emcee of the evening. Block is in fine male form as the title character, the man who won’t make it to the end alive (there’s no such things as spoiler alerts at The Mystery of Edwin Drood). This is mostly because of the stellar cast that pumps so much energy into Rupert Holmes’ ode to Charles Dickens’ final work.Ĭhita Rivera, an American legend, is hilarious as Princess Puffer, proprietor of a local opium establishment.

I do know that in a theatrical season with several dull shows, it stands out like a gem. I’m not sure if The Mystery of Edwin Drood, finishing up an extended run at Broadway’s Studio 54, is a great musical. NEW YORK - Stars shine so much brighter against a dark landscape. The cast of ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ - Photo courtesy of Joan Marcus, 2012