The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Capital Playhouse presents The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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. 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, who is, in turn, engaged to Jasper’s nephew, the young Edwin Drood. Our title character disappears mysteriously – but has Edwin Drood been murdered? And if so, then whodunit.

The giddy playfullness of this play-within-a-play draws the audience toward one of Drood’s most talked-about features, the audience votes on the solution to the most unusual and hilarious finale! After viewing the entire tale, the Chairman invites you, the audience, to tell us how YOU want the story to end! The quick witted actors then must “create” the ending as you have prescribed it. This is the perfect complement to the autumn season when darkness comes earlier and things tend to go “bump” in the night. Directed and Musically Directed by Troy Arnold Fisher.

A special “pay-what-you-can” performance is scheduled for October 27, 2004 at 7:30 pm. Tickets for the “pay-what-you-can” performance go on sale October 20, 2004 at 1:00 pm.