Playwright
Rupert Holmes
Performance Dates
October 17-26, 2002
Creative Team
Direction & Choreography by.........Dan Knechtges
Music Direction by..........................Dennis Davenport
Scenic Design by............................D. Glen Vanderbilt
Costume Design by........................Marcia Hain
Lighting Design by..........................Rob Johnson
Synopsis
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel of the same name. In small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? 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. Staged in metatheatrical manner by the Music Hall Royale, a traveling Victorian theatre troupe full of just as many colorful characters as the roles they play, this charming and inventive musical is sure to intrigue and entertain any musical or mystery lover.
https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/2412/the-mystery-of-edwin-drood
Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
College Theater, Otterbein University Theatre, Musical Theatre, Drama
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (2002). 2002-2003 Season. 4.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_2002-2003/4