HOT or NOT: DROOD Edition: The Principal Cast.The OUT100 2012: The Broadway Connection Part I.LOGOS: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Revival).JKTS Chat: Chaplin's Wayne Alan Wilcox (Part 2).2012 in Review: My Favorite Things: Part I.FACE OF THE FUTURE: Nick Cartell of SCANDALOUS.JKTS CHAT: A Little More with Chaplin's Wayne Wilcox.HOT or NOT: Elf Edition Part 2 (Leads and Swings).Broadway Ladies: November 2012: Erin Dilly.FACE OF THE FUTURE: Spencer Plachy of The Mystery.JKTS Chat: The Mystery of Edwin Drood's Eric Sciotto.FACE OF THE FUTURE: A Christmas Story's Johnny Rabe.The 2012 OUT 100: The Broadway Connection, Part 2.Broadway Box Office: 2012 - 2013 Season: 2nd Quart.I hope the cast picture is on the show poster. One of the nicest things about this logo is that it will mean even more once you've seen the show. why is there a woman dressed like a man? Who is that exotic creature in gold? Why is Chita Rivera so excited? And they pose several interesting questions. But what also comes through is the bawdy fun of actors vying for your attention (just look at the clowning around of that poor guy and the undergarments of the blonde ingenue (Durdles and Rosa Bud)). It also shows the exciting, exotic costumes, and the period/genre - Victorian Music Hall comes through very clearly. The line up also suggests the line up of supects in act two, and the way they are posed is clearly theatrical and fun. Theatre fans will want to check out their favorites. The new production at Studio 54 produced by Roundabout has a pretty good logo that should certainly work for the show, not against it.īy adding the very intersting line up of main characters at the bottom, we learm a lot. Some 27 years later, the problem remains the same, though 5 Tony Awards, a star-filled cast and an audience raised on voting for their favorite performers, will likely make it easier. Again, what the hell is a "Drood"? A music hall? YIKES! It proved such an issue that the original production officially changed its title to Drood: The Music Hall Musical. but "solve-it-yourself"? We were decades away from audience participation television shows. Second, who or what is "Edwin Drood"? And even if you bring up Charles Dickens as the author, who has heard of this unfinished book, right? So they threw in a subtitle: "The Solve-It-Yourself Broadway Musical". First of all, it sounds like a play title - musical mysteries were (and still are) rare. No wonder that producers clamor for movies to make into musicals, and why plays are a harder sell.īack in 1985, the Public Theater had a doozy on its hands with The Mystery of Edwin Drood. But once your attention is gotten, it is the title you likely consider most. Maybe the logo is a striking color, or there is a famous actor's name in huge letters above the title. The title of the show is probably the one thing that sells a show the most, once it gets your attention.
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