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Edwin Drood Delacorte Theatre performance
- Title
- Edwin Drood [sound recording] : Delacorte Theatre performance / by Rupert Holmes.
- Author
- Holmes, Rupert.
- Publication
- Aug. 28, 1985.
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Not available - Please for assistance. | 1 of 2 | Audio | Request in advance | *LTC 6619 [Cassette] 1 of 2 | Offsite |
Not available - Please for assistance. | 2 of 2 | Audio | Request in advance | *LTC 6619 [Cassette] 2 of 2 | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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
- 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. DonorNew 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