EDWIN DROOD CAST LIST FULL
Jeans, at 150 East 76th Street in New York City. The Mystery of Edwin Drood as its meant to be heard, narrated by Ms Pippa Nixon, Joel McCormack, Rachel Atkins, Isabella Inchbald, Iwan Davies, full cast. Performances November 8-16, 2019 at The Theatre at St.
Joyce Throttle, Stage Manager – Shannon Barr Cedric Moncrieffe / Reverend Crisparkle – Neal Young* Victor Grinstead / Neville Landless – David Pasteelnick Miss Janet Conover / Helena Landless – Capron Levine Miss Deirdre Peregrine / Rosa Bud – Lauren Cupples*
Miss Alice Nutting / Edwin Drood – Brady Lynch Miss Angela Prysock / Princess Puffer – Suzanne R. Clive Paget / John Jasper – Paul Mitchell Wilder SPECIAL EVENT – the November 9th performance will be followed by a talk back with author Rupert Holmes! Musical numbers include “Perfect Strangers,” “Don’t Quit While You’re Ahead,” “Off To The Races” and “Moonfall.” Fun and interactive – the audience will vote on important parts of the ending, so each performance is completely different from the others! The tale is presented as a show-within-a-show, as the Music Hall Royale – a delightfully loony Victorian theatre company – presents Dickens’ brooding mystery. In the interview he talks about his time in the show and his time working with Ernie.Based on Charles Dickens’ final unfinished novel, this hilarious whodunit invites the audience to solve its mystery by choosing the identity of the murderer. We were lucky enough to have the pleasure of speaking with Martin Wimbush, who appeared in the play as Mr Cedric Moncrieffe who was playing The Reverend Crisparkle. It shows the cast performing on an edition of the Wogan show.Ī cast recording does exist for both the US and UK productions. It would appear this did not work too well and probably contributed to the downfall of the show.Ĭlips of Ernie performing parts from the play were recently shown on the excellent Johnathan Ross tribute that was broadcast in Dec 2008. The US team wanted to transfer a US show to the UK, including US ways of doing things. There seems to have been a clash of cultures in how the show should have been run. For various reasons it closed after a 10 week run on the 4th July 1987. Unfortunately, the show did not transfer too well. The rest of the cast was strong and included Lulu and Julia Mills So keen was Ernie that on the first day of rehearsal he was practically word perfect, having started work on the script 3 months earlier.Įrnie was cast as the roll of Mr William Cartwright playing The Chairman. I listened to the score and thought how wonderful it was.” PHILIP BAX WAITER/BAZZARD CLARK ADAMS as CHAIRMAN WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT MAYOR THOMAS SAPSEA ALLIE HIGGINS-POMPU as MISS JANET. In his autobiography “Still On My Way To Hollywood” he says “When I was sent the script I was knocked out. It would seem obvious that the next move would be to transfer it to the West End and enjoy similar success.Įrnie had been very excited about this play. It was a major success and won 5 Tonys, incuding best musical. In 1985 the play made it to Broadway and ran for 608 performances. Mr William Cartwright (Ernie) as The Chairman for example.
When you looked in the program you are presented with a list of The Company Of The Musical Hall Royal. The audience were invited to the Music Hall Royale to see Mr William Cartwright and his un paralleled players putting on a performance of “The Mystery Of Edwin Drood”. The story has also been the subject of 2 films, one in 1935 and the other in 1993.įor more details on the background of “The Mystery Of Edwin Drood” please start here at everyone’s favourite online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.įor those of you who wish to read the actual book, it is available online here. Attempts to finish the story and reach a conclusion have been going on for many years. Since then “The Mystery Of Edwin Drood” itself has become a literary mystery. Only 6 issues were published however, taking the reader only to chapter 23. Originally the story was to be published in 12 installments, each costing a shilling starting in April 1870 and ending in March 1871. The show was based on the final and unfinished book by Charles Dickens. Nearly 50 years after he had made his triumphant entrance with Jack Hylton, Ernie returned in the New York smash hit “The Mystery Of Edwin Drood”. Ernie on stage In 1987 Ernie Wise made his return to the West End of London, at the Savoy Theatre.
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