The run closed May 16, 1987
- Opened
- December 2, 1985
- Closed
- May 16, 1987
- Performances
- 608
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 33rd 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
Charles Goff
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
16 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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 recorded
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.)
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and 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 |
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. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Mystery of Edwin Drood at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.