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| Has anyone ever done a DROOD with all the songs written? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:37 pm EDT 09/04/19 | |
| In reply to: "Cabaret" in Vienna - including "all songs ever written for the show or movie" - tmwctd 04:00 pm EDT 09/03/19 | |
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| When the Roundabout revived THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD a few years back, I wished that they'd done a performance or two that included all the possible combinations of resolutions, instead of having the audience vote. There are a lot of those variations that I've never seen performed and some of the choices seem to be tried and true ones that audiences pick a lot of the time. The way I'd envisioned it would be that they would, for example, reveal one character as the murderer and, when that section ends, reset to the cue and reveal another character as the murderer. It could be that with all the combinations of lovers and killers and detectives that doing this would take entirely too long and the audience wouldn't be interested, but, as a fan of the material, I would have reveled in the chance to see some of these variations. | |
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| re: Has anyone ever done a DROOD with all the songs written? | |
| Posted by: tenor1350 01:15 pm EDT 09/04/19 | |
| In reply to: Has anyone ever done a DROOD with all the songs written? - JereNYC 12:37 pm EDT 09/04/19 | |
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| Years ago, I did a production where, after the last performance we invited the audience to stay, and we did every killer. The audience reaction was really terrific. We didn't do all the lovers, because that would have taken forever. And other than a couple of lines leading up to the song, they're all pretty much the same. The confessions are all pretty unique. |
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| re: Has anyone ever done a DROOD with all the songs written? | |
| Posted by: DavidEsq 10:53 pm EDT 09/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone ever done a DROOD with all the songs written? - tenor1350 01:15 pm EDT 09/04/19 | |
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| We did something similar when we did it at my college (in 1990!) but we didn't give the audience at the last performance a choice! After every confession Durdles came out an improvised another segue to the next murderer! When you're only doing 4-5 performances, it's a fun way to end. | |
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| re: Has anyone ever done a DROOD with all the songs written? | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 08:13 pm EDT 09/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Has anyone ever done a DROOD with all the songs written? - tenor1350 01:15 pm EDT 09/04/19 | |
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| That is fresking wonderful, and I wish I could have seen it. But don't you find the incestous lovers at least a bit different from the others? 😄 Laura |
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