A MUSICAL BY RUPERT HOLMES
Production Team:
Director: William Reill
Choreographer: Mitchell Munro
Music Director: Jordan May
Producer: Michael Wolfe
Performances:
November 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30 at 8pm
November 24, and December 1 at 2pm
John Elliott Theatre, 9 Church Street, Georgetown
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 the small town of Cloisterham, 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 (winner of five 1986 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Book and Score) solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote. Staged as a show-within-a-show by the Music Hall Royale, a Victorian London theatre troupe full of just as many colourful characters as the roles they play, this charming and inventive musical is sure to intrigue and entertain any musical or mystery lover.
Cast:
Chairman of the Music Hall Royale - Mark Llewellyn
John Jasper - David Bernacki
Neville Landless - Salmaan Lodhi
Reverend Crisparkle - Andrew Skuza
Bazzard - Mitchell Munro
Durdles - David Brown
Deputy - Spencer Lippa
Rosa Bud - Laura Schachtler
Edwin Drood - Holly Marshall
Helena Landless - Michelle Boss
Princess Puffer - Lee-Ann Jones
Violet Balfour - Emily Zathey
Sarah Cook - Martha Zavitz
Alan Eliot - Stephen Lippa
Florence Gill - Ella Ryan
Christopher Lyon - Reid Mowat
Gwendolen Prynn - Anika Vats
James Throttle - Robert Kellas
Isabel Yearsley - Anna Neving
Citizens of Cloisterham - Jenna Wilson, Leann Playter, Ridhi Kalra
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.com
