Rupert Holmes - The Mystery Of Edwin Drood: The Solve-It-Yourself Broadway Musical (1985 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Review: I LOVE DROOD!!!!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I recently went to our college's production of "Drood" (3 out of 4 nights) and I was amazed!!! I loved every song and couldn't get them out of my head. I was telling my grandma about the musical when to my surprise she told me that she had this CD. She let me borrow it and I have not been able to take it out of my CD player!! I highly recommend "Drood" to everyone!!!Free Music Review: Solve The Mystery
Hit: 5 Stars
What a blast. Dickens died before he finished this work and this fabulous musical gives the audience a chance to solve the ending in 6 differenct ways, great for community theaters, high schools or colleges, high budget due to period costumes and definite need for good singers in leads but a lot of fun for actors and audience alike!!!Free Music Review: Excellent and fun!
Hit: 5 Stars
Hilarious musical in a musical! Lots of fun to listen to. If possible, get the rare version from the sound booth. You can hear the actual ENTIRE show along with the audience. Fun mystery story. :)Free Music Review: the mystery of edwin drood
Hit: 5 Stars
I am interested in buying this cd, but not for 249.99. That is an outrageous price for a cd. If the list is incorrect, please let me know.Free Music Review: A fun musical where the audience chooses the ending.
Hit: 4 Stars
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, the 1996 Tony Award winning Best Musical, is the fun and frolic murder mystery where the audience chooses what character they want to be the detective in disguise, who is the killer and who gets to have a love song with who at the end. This works mainly because the mystery, writen by Charles Dickens, actually is a mystery!!! Charles Dickens died before he wrote the end of the book! Ooops! Now nobody will ever really know who the killer was or who was the person sneaking around, gathering clues. Unfortunately on the tape, they only have the killer's & detective's confessions that were chosen on openning night of the Broadway production. BUT on the CD, they cut two songs (which kinda sucks), but you get all the confessions and you get to find out everyone's reasons for commiting the murder or becoming the detective.
George Rose won the Tony for Best Supporting Actor as the Master of Ceremonies (also found on the PIRATES OF PENZANTS recording with Linda Rondstant & Kevin Kline). The cast also includes legends Cleo Lane as Princess Puffer the Opium Den Queen & Betty Buckley (known as the really nice mom in EIGHT IS ENOUGH and Grizabella in CATS) as Edwin Drood. It's a great cast of characters.
There are some strong numbers like: the rapid tongue twister male duet "TWO SIDES OF THE COIN", the very popular female solo "MOONFALL" and the closing "THE WRITING ON THE WALL". A great duet "PERFECT STRANGERS" and group number "NO GOOD CAN COME FROM BAD" are also really fun to listen to. Granted, most of the Pricess Puffer songs bore me, but almost everything else is really jolly fun.
My idea of great musical theater is LES MISERABLES and SWEENEY TODD, so maybe I'm not really an unlifting musical kinda of guy. I like the dark stuff. But if you like happy old musical style, I think you'll really enjoy THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.