The first stage in your theatre career? It starts at Idyllwild.
Our Theatre Arts Program offers concentrated pre-professional
training that incorporates advanced techniques to guide
you toward greater self-awareness of your own potential
and resources. Concentrations include acting, theatrical
design and technical theatre, and musical theatre. Individual
programs of study are written for each student and are
geared toward personal interests and training as assessed
by our faculty, based on auditions at the beginning of
each year. In addition, individual college or conservatory
counseling, along with preparation for the Unified College
Auditions, is offered.
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The Idyllwild Arts Theatre Department presents:
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Solve-It-Yourself Broadway Musical
May 16-17, IAF Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
May 18, IAF Theatre, 2:00 p.m.
There is a mystery to be solved at Idyllwild Arts! On
May 16, 17 and 18, the Idyllwild Arts Theatre department
will present the Broadway musical DROOD, Rupert Holmes’
entertaining adaptation of Charles Dickens’ last
and unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This
wildly warm-hearted theatrical experience kicks off when
the Music Hall Royale (a hilariously loony Victorian music
hall troupe) "puts on" its flamboyant rendition
of the 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. But Miss Bud is engaged to Jasper's nephew,
the young Edwin Drood, who disappears mysteriously one
stormy Christmas Eve. Has Edwin Drood been murdered? And
if so, then whodunit? Could it be the bawdy opium den
madame Princess Puffer, the exotic immigrant twins from
Ceylon, Neville and Helena Landless, the kindly Reverend
Crisparkle? Solve the mystery for yourself through the
giddy playfulness of this play-within-a-play as you, the
audience, vote on the solution, ringing down the curtain
to a most unusual and hilarious finale!
Musical numbers include The Wage of Sin, Perfect Strangers,
Both Sides of the Coin, Don't Quit While You're Ahead
and Moonfall.
Winner of 5 Tony Awards for Musical, Book, Score, Director
and Actor
