Tickets cost $25, or $20 for senior citizens and OSU affiliates, $15 for students and children. 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.
Production states: The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that.
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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. Casting The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a musical. 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. But The Mystery of Edwin Drood was a bona fide Broadway success a few seasons agothe. 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. The mystery is how this musical-comedy mediocrity ever got onto a professional stage in the first place. In this unsolved, unfinished, musical murder-mystery, you choose the culprit Based off of Charles Dickens. 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.
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Rupert Holmes' unconventional musical - derived from Dickens' 1870 serial novel, unfinished when. The sparkling Ohio State University production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood plays off the British music-hall tradition with wit and style. The Roundabout's revival of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' is a diverting and amiable entertainment.
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