The men are suited with dapper suits and the ladies with elegant and demure dresses, save for the Princess Puffer, of course, a true red-clad lady of the night. (This show indeed has a fabulous meta-element to it that really drives the production along quite smashingly.) Colestock takes full advantage of the opportunity to incorporate vibrant jewel tones in the costumes of Helena and Neville Landless as they are from the less-than-dreary Arabian midlands their costumes pop with exuberance by comparison to the more traditional and somewhat dowdier English garb. The interior paint jobs are again at the hand of Tilberry most fitting for the places they depict the garish printed wall paper doing Jasper’s home a level of creepy and unsettling justice that really lends an off-putting sense to his character.Ĭostume Designer Jackie Colestock sets to work on a series of outfits that serve a dual purpose keeping the actors in the period of the show while simultaneously representing their characters within the play. Mitchell adds clever convenience to the scenic work with his indented rotating set pieces that transform the outdoors into sheltered houses and darkened corridors inside the cloister. Tilberry’s rudimentary sketches of city buildings look like illustrations that might have been captured from the Dickens’ novel itself. Set Designer Matt Mitchell and Scenic Artist Sue Tilberry literally set the stage. With Musical Direction by Ken Kimble, there is a murderer among the cast and the show’s whodunit changes by the audience nightly! What more could one ask for than such divine vulgarity and hilarious incivility? (L to R) Neville Landless (DJ Wojciehowski), Reverend Crisparkle (Wendell Holland), John Jasper (David Merrill), Rosa Bud (Paige Miller), Helena Landless (Casey Lynne Garner), and Edwin Drood (Emily Lentz) Alison Harbaugh, Freckle Photography With a laughable and loveable ragtag band of actors, these music and lyrics and well-set book by Rupert Holmes come to a fabulously entertaining life under the keen Direction of Andy Scott and make for a most marvelous evening outside. Instead of a night of traditional ASGT musical revelry, The Music Hall Royale has brought to the stage their latest work- the greatest injustice of Charles Dickens’ life- his unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The thrilling era of 1890’s London has slipped across the docks and settled into the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre to launch the first show of their 50 th season of theatre under the stars. ![]() ![]() Ensemble: Casey Dinkin, Andrew Shelton, Al Aumick, Brian Avery, Meighan Carivan-Esmond, Sue Culver, Jillian M.The cold grey tendrils of a dim English dawn are unfurling across the Annapolis harbor.Angela Prysock /Princess Puffer: Paula Ginder.Janet Conover /Helena Landless: Christine Vermilea. ![]() Deirdre Peregrine /Rosa Bud: Christina Nicotina.Alice Nutting /Dick Datchery/Edwin Drood: Heather D’Arcy.Victor Grinstead /Neville Landless: Matt Harvey.William Cartwright, Chairman / Mayor Sapsea: Wayne D.The giddy playfulness of this play-within-a-play draws the audience toward one of DROOD’S most talked-about features, which allows the audience to vote on the solution as prelude to the most unusual and hilarious finale! Cast Our title character disappears mysteriously one stormy Christmas Eve-but has Edwin Drood been murdered? And if so, then whodunit? Musical numbers include The Wage of Sin, Perfect Strangers, Both Sides of the Coin, Don’t Quit While You’re Ahead and Moonfall. ![]() Now, Miss Bud is, in turn, engaged to Jasper’s nephew, young Edwin Drood. The story itself deals with John Jasper, a Jekyll-and-Hyde choirmaster who is quite madly in love with his music student, the fair Miss Rosa Bud. This wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when the Music Hall Royale (a hilariously loony Victorian musical troupe) “puts on” its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished Dickens mystery.
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