Sunday in the Drake Performance Center's Thurber Theatre, 1849 Cannon Dr. The cast members do their best to keep the audience involved, and their good humor and evident enjoyment of the process are State University will present The Mystery of Edwin Drood at 7:30 tonight, 3 and 7:30 p.m.
EDWIN DROOD BROADWAY 2012 FULL
Such a stumble presented a particular dilemma in the final section of the musical, when the plot was supposed to be unwound.Įven without full illumination, however, the musical is entertaining, offering enough twists and turns to keep it engaging to the end. The major problem of the production is that, at least at the opening-night performance, it was sometimes difficult to make out the words that a good percentage of the characters were saying and even harder to understand the lyrics, many of which demanded quick articulation. Samantha Kuhn’s sumptuous but playful costumes add to the air of sometimes-tacky Victorian excess.Ī 10-piece orchestra, under Parry’s direction, ably backs up the songs and provides musical commentary on the dramatic goings-on. Marni Balint’s set transforms gracefully when it needs to, and awkwardly when it’s supposed to, and evokes its era without slavishly imitating it. Drew Doherty is a crowd pleaser as Philip Bax, the actor who shows up eager for his bit part at the end of the first act. Various The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Label:Verve Records B0017483-02: Format: CD, Album, Reissue. Rathmann is amusingly assured as the unintentionally androgynous Drood, and Mazibuko makes a fine hammy villain. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2012 CD release of 'The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)' on Discogs. Scott Parry, the musical is light on its feet, with parody switching to ravishing musical numbers or emotionally powerful dance and back.Ĭonnor nicely juggles his attention between the antics onstage and the demands he makes of the audience, keeping the action moving along. Their lives are complicated by two mysterious strangers from the East (Johnathan Mendes and Jessica Hirsh), the owner of an opium den (Melonie Mazibuko) and a shady clergyman (Danny DiMarino), among others. The convoluted plot has young Edwin Drood, played at the music hall by arrogant male impersonator Miss Alice Nutting (Logan Rathmann), competing with dastardly uncle John Jasper (Sifiso Mazibuko) for the affections of innocent Rosa Bud (played at the Wednesday opening-night performance by Kristen Kuivial, who alternates in the part with Cristina Maria Castro). This means that each performance, in theory, might have a different ending. The twist is that Dickens didn’t finish the novel, so the company asks the audience of each performance to vote on who among the characters did away with Edwin Drood and who solved the mystery of his disappearance. The premise of the two-act Rupert Holmes musical is that a Victorian company, under the uneven direction of music-hall master of ceremonies William Cartwright (John Connor), is giving its interpretation of Charles Dickens’ last work. The sparkling Ohio State University production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood plays off the British music-hall tradition with wit and style.
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