With a faculty and production team of working professionals who have performed on Broadway and other top venues, BTC is well known for its high-quality productions and high-impact youth education work. the company and audience become united, as intended, in the joy of theatrical invention.” It’s an adventure for the cast and audience alike! Frank Rich, The New York Time, said, “Spontaneous fun. Come multiple times to see the different ways this mystery can play out. A play within a play, this hilarious and high-spirited show has the audience choose the ending! The Detective, Murderer, and Lovers are voted on at every performance, making each show unique. Matt Windman of am New York touted it as “One of the most inventive, inspired and rousing musicals ever devised.”Ĭharles Dickens died while writing his final novel, leaving behind not a clue of how to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The original Broadway production was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, producer. For Edwin Drood, Holmes was the first person in theatrical history to solely win Tony awards for Best Music, Best Lyrics, and Best Book of a Musical. Rupert Holmes’ musical creation The Mystery of Edwin Drood won Broadway’s highest honor, the Tony Award for Best Musical, and had a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival in 2012-2013. The show will feature BTC’s award-winning Senior Ensemble consisting of advanced students (grades 9-12) from throughout Westchester. HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NY – Broadway Training Center of Westchester (BTC), one of the region's premier performing arts schools, will present “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” March 31 through April 2 at Hastings High School in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Local Production Will Feature BTC’s Award-Winning Senior Ensemble, an invite-only performance program for students grades 9-12, from throughout Westchester. Note: Due to some suggestive humor, parental guidance is suggested.Broadway Training Center of Westchester to Present “ The Mystery of Edwin Drood” March 31-April 2 in Hastings-on-Hudson Tickets: $20-$35 (*Ticket prices may increase, based on demand. Workhouse Arts Center presents “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at W3 Theatre, 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton. Wallen indicated that due to some suggestive humor, parental guidance is suggested. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” has a wider age group in mind. In the past the Workhouse Arts Center has produced shows that have been primarily geared towards adult audiences. There will be plenty of lights, sounds and stage effects to enhance the audience experience. The more than two dozen songs are directed by Paige Austin Rammelkamp. The idea is to have Workhouse guests “feel as if they are part of the show at times,” said Wallen.ĭanilo Stapula directs the cast of thirteen. Some scenes will even have the performers in the audience areas “playing” with the guests during the performance. The show also includes an emcee (Brian Lyons-Burke) who introduces scenes, and even directly interacts with the audience. Or perhaps some mysterious newly arrived twins up to no good? But by whom? Might the killer be a romantic rival? Or the purveyor of wickedness. The plot of the musical is this: in the small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood (Amanda Mason) has been mysteriously murdered. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is a British Music Hall-type show-within-a-show centered on a Victorian era theater company full of eccentric people. What is fun, indicated Wallen, is that after the audience votes on the “real” identities of the characters, “the performers are then tasked with completing the remainder of the musical using the solution provided by the audience.” There are fifty or so possible endings – each of which the cast, crew and band must be ready to implement. “As the musical is based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, Holmes decided to acknowledge this by asking the audience to help solve the crime,” noted Wallen. Rupert Holmes who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” includes the audience’s voice as part of the plot. “Edwin Drood” provides audiences the opportunity “to not just sit and take in the production, but to make a difference in the final outcomes of each performance.” That is why we selected ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ for our next production,” said Joseph Wallen, Artistic Director, Workhouse Arts Center. “We wanted to provide Northern Virginia audiences with a unique evening of musical storytelling.
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