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“DROOD” is sheer fun with wild high spirits and the strange dark shadows. Imagine an old-fashioned Victorian theatre company, “The Royale,” who decide to produce their own dramatized and musical version of Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel Edwin Drood. It’s to be done like a Music Hall, so we have a Chairman who introduces the scenes.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by the English author Charles Dickens, [1] [2] originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood's uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who lusts after his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Edwin Drood's fiancée, has ...
- Fildes, Luke, Sir, Charles Dickens
- Serialized and book form 1870
- 1870
- Chapman & Hall, London
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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 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). The musical won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical; from among eleven nominations.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, published posthumously in 1870. Only 6 of the 12 projected parts had been completed by the time of Dickens’s death. Although Dickens had included touches of the gothic and horrific in his earlier works, Edwin Drood was his only true mystery story. He left few clues as to how he ...
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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