The Mystery of Edwin Drood
From: Friday, 18th May 2012
To: Sunday, 17 June 2012
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Synopsis
In celebration of the bicentenary year of one of our greatest authors, the Tony Award winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood returns to London this Summer. Charles Dickens’ unfinished final novel is brought raucously to life through the great British traditions of music hall and pantomime, with a final audience vote to determine the ending of this great literary curiosity!
Directed by Matthew Gould, The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars stars former Coronation Street's Cilla Battersby-Brown, Wendi Peters as 'Princess Puffer'. The cast also features Natalie Day (Rosa Budd), Daniel Robinson (John Jasper), Victoria Farley (Rosa Budd), Loula Geater (Helena Landlass), David Francis (Neville Landlass), Denis Delahunt (Chairman), Richard Stirling (Reverend Crisparkle), Oliver Mawdsley (Horace), Paul Hutton (Durdles), Tom Pepper (Deputy) and Ben Goffe (Harry Sayle).
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23 May 2012
To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning 1986 musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood arrives at the Arts Theatre for a limited four-week run after a successful revival at the Landor Theatre.
Based on the final, unfinished novel by the author, the play within a play sees a music hall cast stage a production of Edwin Drood, ‘a musical with dramatic interludes’. Drood vanishes, but why? Is he dead, and who was it? There are many options, a jilted lover of his fiancée, a strange and volatile man from a foreign land or even the priest. No-one knows until audience gets involved to decide who died and whodunit.
With song-sheets in hand we're invited to join in the songs before the play even begins. This kick-starts a raucous atmosphere that's carried throughout by the energetic cast, under the assured di...
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STEVE HURRELL - 4 June 2012:
EVERYTHING SO GOOD--COULD HAVE BEEN 10/15 MINUTES SHORTER....
Cast
Wendi Peters (Princess Puffer)
Natalie Day (Edwin Drood)
Victoria Farley (Rose Budd)
Daniel Robinson (John Jasper)
Loula Geater (Helena Landlass)
David Francis (Neville Landlass)
Denis Delahunt (Chairman)
Richard Stirling (Reverend Crisparkle)
Oliver Mawdsley (Horace)
Mark Ralston (Bazzard)
Paul Hutton (Durdles)
Tom Pepper (Deputy)
Ben Goffe (Harry Sayle)
Creative
Charles Dickens (Book)
Katy Lipson E:Landor TheatreKaty Lipson (for Aria Entertainment) E:Landor Theatre ()
Rupert Holmes (Music)
Matthew Gould (Director)
James Cleeve (Musical Director) (Director)
Jean Gray (Costume)
Natasha Piper (Design)
Maria Kearney (Lighting)
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