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Tony Award for Best Original Score. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a musical written by Rupert Holmes based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel of the same name. The show was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings (determined by audience vote).
“DROOD” had a full season as the featured musical of Toronto’s prestigious Shaw Festival. Read more about this prestigious production, as well as Rupert’ own essay written for the festival, “The History of the Mystery.” More recently, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD had a Broadway revival.
The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone else even more dastardly and villainous? Dickens passed away before he was able to reveal the culprit. Rupert Holmes’ award-winning musical solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote.
Tony Award-winning writer Rupert Holmes, the Rennaisance man who authored the book, music, lyrics and orchestrations to Broadway's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, discusses creating the rich ...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood invites the audience to help solve a mystery and determine the outcome of the show. Set in the colorful world of a Victorian music hall, the story follows a range of characters who are entangled in a web of intrigue and secrets. When young Edwin Drood mysteriously disappears, the audience must deduce the culprit from ...
We sat down with the Tony-winning writer of The Mystery of Edwin Drood to learn about how this unique musical came to be. See it at Goodspeed Musicals from A...
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in the 1985 Rupert Holmes musical, the character of Datchery is initially played by the actress who also plays Edwin Drood, but can be voted by the audience to be revealed by Princess Puffer to really be Rosa Bud, Neville Landless, Helena Landless, Bazzard, or Reverend Crisparkle.
