The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1985

The run closed May 16, 1987

Opened

December 2, 1985

Closed

May 16, 1987

Performances

608

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Imperial Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 32nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2 more that season

1988	Transfer Transfer
2012	Studio 54 Revival · Scott Ellis	136 perf.

Who was in it38 named

Karen Giombetti
Stephen Glavin
Susan Goodman
Joe Grifasi
Nicholas Gunn
Francine Landes
George N Martin
Peter Mcrobbie
Brad Miskell
George Spelvin
Loretta Swit
Karen Culliver
Steve Clemente
Richard Cray
Camille de Ganon
Lorraine Goodman
Joe Pichette
Robert Radford
Mary Robin Roth
Christina Saffran
Catherine Ulissey

17 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters11 roles held

George Rose Mayor Thomas Sapsea (Chairman William Cartwright)
Betty Buckley Edwin Drood & Dick Datchery (Alice Nutting)
Patti Cohenour Rosa Bud (Deirdre Peregrine)
Howard McGillin John Jasper (Clive Paget)
Cleo Laine Princess Puffer (Miss Angela Prysock)
George N. Martin* Reverend Crisparkle (Cedric Moncrieffe)
John Herrera Neville Landless (Victor Grinstead)
Jana Schneider Helena Landless (Janet Conover)
Joe Grifasi Bazzard & Waiter (Philip Bax)
Jerome Dempsey Durdles (Nick Cricker)
Stephen Glavin Deputy (Nick Cricker, Jr.)

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Wilford Leach

Choreographer

Graciela Daniele

Producer

Joseph Papp for the

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Won

Recordings 4 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

In 1985, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (a title later shortened to Drood) by Rupert Holmes, a musical first done by the New York Shakespeare Festival at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre, transferred here and promptly... At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 183

• It was the first stage work of composer-lyricist-librettist Rupert Holmes, whose lifelong fascination with Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel had been the catalyst for the project. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 264
• Classically trained soprano who played several roles in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985) Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 219
• ROSE, GEORGE (1920–1988). Actor who won Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Henry Higgins in the 1976 revival of My Fair Lady (as Rex Harrison had done in the original) and again in 1986 for The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 340
• Other productions over the years included Jerry’s Girls (1985, Tony nomination), Nine (2003, Tony nomination), and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985). The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 667
• 1986: /'m Not Rappaport The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Loot (R); A Lie of the Mind (OP); Nunsense (OM) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 431

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 4 recordings of The Mystery of Edwin Drood document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.