Research Catalog

Title

Edwin Drood [sound recording] : Delacorte Theatre performance / by Rupert Holmes.

Author

Holmes, Rupert.

Publication

Aug. 28, 1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
• Rose, George, 1920-1988
• McGillin, Howard
• Buckley, Betty
• Cohenour, Patti, 1952-
• Schneider, Jana
• Herrera, John
• Kuhn, Judy
• Murphy, Donna
• Dempsey, Jerome
• Kuhn, Don
• Shue, Larry
• Grifasi, Joe
• Starobin, Michael
• Leach, Wilford, 1929-1988
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. dnr

Found In

New York Shakespeare Festival records, 1954-1992.

Description

2 sound cassettes : analog, stereo.

Summary

Cassettes contain full performance of NYSF production of The mystery of Edwin Drood at the Delacorte Theatre. Some songs were omitted and/or replaced for the Broadway version of the show.

Uniform Title

Mystery of Edwin Drood

Alternative Title

• Mystery of Edwin Drood
• New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Subject

• Musical theater > New York (State) > New York

Note

• Credits and production information taken from the book: New York Shakespeare Festival, the people and the plays.
• In this performance, the ending of the musical is dependent in audience participation. In this recording, Bazzard was voted to be the character Datchery, Helena Landless was the murderer, and the Princess Puffer and Mayor Thomas Sapsea were the lovers.
• Separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival records; for papers, see the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, *T-Mss 1993-028; for sheet music and scores, see the Music Division, JPB 04-03.

Credits (note)

• Rupert Holmes, composer, librettist, lyricist and arranger ; Michael Starobin, conductor ; Wilford Leach, director.

Event (note)

• Recorded at the Delacorte Theatre, New York, on Aug. 28, 1985.

Source (note)

• The New York Shakespeare Festival and Gail Merrifield Papp;

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Contents

• [Cassette 1] Side 1. An English music hall ; A man can go quite mad ; Two kingsmen ; Moonfall ; A British subject ; Moonfall quartet ; I wouldn't say no ; The wages of sin ; Jasper's vision (dream ballet) [ends abruptly] -- Side 2. No good can come from bad ; Ceylon ; Perfect strangers ; Both sides of the coin ; Never the luck ; The name of love/Moonfall (reprise)
• [Cassette 2] Side 1. Setting up the score ; Off to the races ; Don't quit while you're ahead ; A British subject (Instrumental) ; Garden path to Hell ; Out on a limerick [ends abruptly] -- Side 2. Jasper's confession ; Murderer's confession ; Perfect strangers (reprise) ; The writing on the wall ; Finale (Don't quit while you're ahead (reprise))

Call Number

*LTC 6619

OCLC

316216255

Author

Holmes, Rupert.

Title

Edwin Drood [sound recording] : Delacorte Theatre performance / by Rupert Holmes.

Imprint

Aug. 28, 1985.

Credits

Rupert Holmes, composer, librettist, lyricist and arranger ; Michael Starobin, conductor ; Wilford Leach, director.

Event

Recorded at the Delacorte Theatre, New York, on Aug. 28, 1985.

Performer

George Rose (Mayor Thomas Sapsea / Your Chairman William Cartwright) ; Howard McGillin (John Jasper / Clive Paget) ; Betty Buckley (Edwin Drood / Alice Nutting) ; Patti Cohenour (Rosa Bud / Deidre Peregrine) ; Jana Schneider (Helena Landless / Janet Conover) ; John Herrera (Neville Landless / Victor Grinstead) ; Judy Kuhn (Alice / Isabel Yearsley) ; Donna Murphy (Beatrice / Florence Gill) ; Cleo Laine (The Princess Puffer / Angela Prysock) ; Jerome Dempsey (Durdles / Nick Cricker) ; Don Kuhr (Deputy / Robert Bascomb) ; Larry Shue (Rev. Crispsparkle / Wilfred Barking-Smythe) ; Joe Grifasi (Bazzard / Philip Bax)

Linking Entry

Forms part of: New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Added Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Rose, George, 1920-1988, singer.

McGillin, Howard, singer.

Buckley, Betty, singer.

Cohenour, Patti, 1952- singer.

Schneider, Jana, singer.

Herrera, John, singer.

Kuhn, Judy, singer.

Murphy, Donna, singer.

Dempsey, Jerome, singer.

Kuhn, Don, singer.

Shue, Larry, singer.

Grifasi, Joe, singer.

Starobin, Michael, conductor.

Leach, Wilford, 1929-1988, director.

Papp, Gail Merrifield. Donor

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Donor

Added Title

New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection.

Found In:

New York Shakespeare Festival records, 1954-1992.

Research Call Number

*LTC 6619