Bergen County Players, one of America’s
longest-running little theater companies, recently opened its 86th season
with the Five-time Tony Award winning musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Book, Music and Lyrics written
by Rupert Holmes, The Mystey of Edwin Drood is based on an unfinished novel by
Charles Dickens. Holmes will make a special live appearance at the Little Firehouse
Theatre for BCP's "Conversation With An Artist" talkback immediately following
the Sunday, September 23 matinee performance.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.bcplayers.org, by calling
201-261-4200 or by visiting the box office at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell during
regular box office hours. The Mystery of Edwin Drood will be
performed at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell through October 6th,
2018.
Rupert Holmes, a former
Bergen County resident and an ardent supporter of the Bergen County Players, is
perhaps best known as author-composer of the Tony award-winning Broadway
musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Edgar award-winning Broadway
comedy-thriller Accomplice. He was the
first person in theatrical history to be the sole winner of Tony Awards for
Best Book, Best Music and Best Lyrics for Drood, which also won the Tony and
Drama Desk Award for Best Broadway Musical. His comedy-drama about the life of
comedian George Burns, Say Goodnight, Gracie, earned him a Tony nomination for
Best Play. His stage comedy-thrillers
Accomplice and Solitary Confinement broke box office records, with both shows
enjoying runs on Broadway, while the musical comedy Curtains won Holmes the
Drama Desk award for Best Book of a Musical, as well as two further Tony
nominations. In a unique collaboration, Holmes wrote the original comedy
thriller Thumbs! expressly for BCP, which had its world premiere at the Little
Firehouse Theatre in 2001.
Winner
of five Tony Awards in 1986, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score, The
Mystery of Edwin Drood is a musical comedy about a theatre company
attempting to stage a musical comedy of the story Charles Dickens was writing
when he died. Because the story was never finished, the mystery of who killed
Edwin Drood is left to the audience to solve. Depending on the audience’s voice
votes, shows of hands and ballots, the last half-hour of the show changes at
every performance. There are literally hundreds of possible endings.
For
over 20 years, BCP's "Conversations With An Artist" talkback series
has provided the public with an opportunity to converse directly with the most
seminal figures in theater. Past speakers have included Tony Award-winning
actor Philip Bosco (“Lend Me A Tenor”, “Moon Over Buffalo”), Tony
Award-nominated Rob McClure ("Chaplin", "Something
Rotten!", "Honeymoon in Vegas") and Tony Award-nominated Beth Fowler
("Beauty and the Beast", "Sweeney Todd", "The Boy From Oz"), to name a few.
TICKET AND SCHEDULE INFORMATION
· All performances
take place at The Little Firehouse Theatre at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell, home to
the Bergen County Players since 1949.
Performance times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 2pm.
· Tickets for The
Mystery of Edwin Drood are $24 for all performances, and can be purchased
online at www.bcplayers.org, by
calling 201-261-4200 or by visiting the box office at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell during
regular box office hours. Visa, Master
Card, and American Express are accepted.
· Those interested
in Group Sales or benefit theater parties can call (201) 261-4200 (mailbox #6)
· · BCP
offers seating to accommodate patrons who are mobility impaired. These seats
can be purchased by calling the box office at 201-261-4200 and will be released
for public sale two weeks prior to performance.
· · Advance
discount tickets for students age 25 and under with proper ID are available for
$14 by phone or walk-up only, and student rush seats can be purchased for $5
(cash only) starting 30 minutes before curtain at every performance, pending
seat availability. There is a limit of one rush ticket per student.
· · A new program is
now available for qualified non-profit organizations to use one performance of
each production as a fundraising event.
The group will book all 200 seats at a deeply discounted price and then
resell the tickets at a price of their choosing, with the difference in price
kept by the group. The available date is the Thursday of each show’s final weekend. Interested groups can email fundraising@bcplayers.org
for more information.
· · Parking is free
for our patrons at the Park Avenue municipal
lot, across the street, one-half block north of the theater, as well as street
parking on Kinderkamack Road
and various side streets, all within easy walking distance.
Further information can be found at www.bcplayers.org.
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