The Mystery Of Edwin Drood - National Touring Company USA
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2016
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood - National Tour US. Book, Music & Lyrics by Rupert Holmes. Directed by Wilford Leech, Choreographed by Graciele Danielle.
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I'm trying to remember the Broadway production and how similar this touring production is to it. What I do remember fondly was seeing the original cast and sitting in the first stage box seat (?) which was partially over the stage itself. When everyone was told to close their eyes, one of the cast caught me not doing so and actually walked over to our box and humorously got me to close my eyes. My takeaway from the evening was a really fun night out at the theater. From my angle, I also could see the backlit spray from all the actors' mouths as they sang, with George Rose 's being the most water-filled. I also had Cleo Lane pop up in the box behind us for her part in the opening number. I opted for the inside side of the box so my date could see more of the stage so I missed half of what was going on upstage but the benefits of being over the stage more than compensated.
It also had Jerome Dempsey in the cast; one of my favorite stage actors since seeing him play Van Helsing to Frank Langella's Dracula.
Thank you very much for posting this!
What are the odds that this performance would have nearly the same ending as the revival bootleg
where does one find that?
Where can I find a bootleg of this? I'm doing this show and I've been cast as Jasper and I would like to use it for research.
Brandon Acosta Where did u find the revival bootleg?
Can you please comment a link for us?
The one video featuring the original cast has a different Datchery and different killer.
Anyone know if the revival full show is somewhere on RUclips?
Don’t Quit While You’re Ahead 1:33:14
Which theater/city was this recorded in?
SFO Orpheum
did they cut A Man Could Go Quite Mad?!
that wuld be crazy! It's one of my favorite songs but also very important to set up Jasper's character and the story. I've worked on a production and it wasn't even a question to not do it, and seen one amateur and the broadway revival, and I'm 99.9% certain the song was in both.
Ok - the short answer is yes, they cut "A Man Could Go Quite Man".
The more detailed answer is that when the show opened in the West End (after the Broadway opening) author Rupert Holmes made extensive rewrites:
"A Man Could Go Quite Mad" - cut
"Moonfall Quartet" - cut
"Ceylon" replaced with "A British Subject" (the song features the Landless twins more than Ceylon)
"Settling Up the Score" replaced with "Private Investigation"
Murderer's Confession rewritten for Neville Landless, Helena Landless, and Reverend Crisparkle (using "A British Subject" as the base).
The 1st National Tour, which went out after the show closed on Broadway (and was headlined by George Rose, Jean Stapleton, and Paige O'Hara), used the script from the West End.
The 2nd National Tour opened mid September 1988. This production restored the "Moonfall Quartet" and "Ceylon" but left the rest of the show as performed by the 1st National Tour. This means that when Neville, Helena, or Crisparkle were picked as murderer they were singing a reprise of a song that was not in the show.
So to circle back to the original question "A Man Could Go Quite Mad" was not performed on either of the original National tours.
My goodness, thanks for the extensive and hard to know answer. Rupert, WTF man! A man could go quite mad indeed - this is madness. To my knowledge many of these changes were not used in future productions. In the college production I was involved in (that Rupert was around for) we used "A British Subject" but MCGQM and Moonfall Quartet and Settling Up the Score were luckily there, and they were also in the recent Roundabout Broadway revival, far as I recall.
@@Wheezzie Luckily, though, the song is an optional one, and you can choose to have it performed, just like the recent Broadway revival chose to have it so.
"Moonfall Quartet", "Ceylon," and "Settling Up the Score" are also presented as a choice, along with, supposedly, "England Reigns," a song that was cut from the show that can be sung as Act Two begins. The former three were performed as part of the Broadway revival, but they chose to not play the latter and instead give us the show's ORIGINAL original opening number, "A British Music Hall".
@@BrendanClifford Wow, I'm glad I read these comments...I will be choosing a different version of the production to watch tonight then! Such a great song...cutting it is a grave mistake!
rosa got her confession lyrics wrong
Why would you spoil the show for something as petty as that?
@@musicalcannoli624 oops..
Is this Paige O'Hara as Drood?
Correct!
Actually, no it's not Paige O'Hara. This is the second national company. Drood was played by Kris Montgomery. The Chairman was Steve LeBlanc, Jasper was CM Yates , Rosa was Marie Danvers, and Puffer was Karla Hamilton.
Wheezzie is correct. Kris Montgomery was Drood!
Odd. Could be the woman playing Puffer, but I’m catching slightly different lyrics than the original Broadway in “Don’t Quit...” Also noticing people entering from different sides and differences in the staging, much weaker in the accents.
It sounded like her
Who is playing Durdles? He doesn't seem all that funny.