Also credited on2 works
Curtains
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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In the literature8 passages
- On my last afternoon in New York, before I had to fly home, I went to see Rupert Holmes’s musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which remains one of my favourite musicals. Despite the ominous tone of the title, the show was funny and poignant and, although I didn’t understand this until much…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
- No one had ever won Tonys for Best Book, Best Score, and Best Musical until Rupert Holmes did it with his The Mystery of Edwin Drood.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- One of biggest improvements that Rupert Holmes made when adapting the late Peter Stone’s original book to Curtains was to make it shorter. Given that the rule of thumb is that each page of script loosely translates to one minute of stage time, Stone was in the process of writing an extremely lengthy show. An April 1, 1986, draft weighed i…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Rupert Holmes, our 1985–1986 MVP on The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He read what Stone had and thought the first mistake was setting the show in “Time: Now.” He suggested that the show remind us of the good ol’ days. Besides, how many shows went out of town anymore? In the previous twenty years, four had come to Boston—the same number that ha…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- But star Jessica Cranshaw stinks—and she’s the one who’s murdered. The way it happened was pure Rupert Holmes, a clever gambit that only the biggest crime-novel fans would have thought of.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- 22 . Lewis Funke, “Ed McBain Will Pull a ‘Caper’ To Bock’s Music,” New York Times , 6 May 1973. Rupert Holmes showed that it could be done in his book for Kander and Ebb’s murder-mystery musical Curtains (2007).ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
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