Chita's Back On Broadway In A Real Mystery

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Posted: 3/1/12 at 6:25am

Chita Rivera will return to Broadway as Princess Puffer in a new production of Rupert Holmes’s musical 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', marking its first return to Broadway since its 1986 Tony Awards triumph.

The Roundabout Theater Company announced that performances of 'Edwin Drood', in which the audience votes on who committed the titular murder, will begin this October at Studio 54.

“The fantastic work of Rupert Holmes and the mere fact that the audience is involved were great attractions for me,” Ms. Rivera, a two-time Tony winner, said in an email message.
Ms. Rivera created the role of Velma Kelly in the original Broadway production of 'Chicago' in 1975 and won Tonys for her performances in 'The Rink' and 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'.
Most recently she starred in “Chita Rivera: A Dancer’s Life'.

In 'Edwin Drood',she’ll play a madam in an opium den and one of many murder suspects in the show, which is based on Charles Dickens’s unfinished 1870 novel.

Scott Ellis is expected to direct the musical.

Opening outdoors as part of Shakespeare in the Park and then moving to Broadway in 1985, 'The Mystery Of Edwin Drood', won five Tonys, including best musical and best score for Mr. Holmes.
Cleo Laine was nominated for playing Princess Puffer, but lost to Bernadette Peters in 'Song and Dance', as did Ms. Rivera, for her role in 'Jerry's Girls'





Updated On: 3/4/12 at 06:25 AM

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Posted: 3/4/12 at 8:13am

The Roundabout 2012/13 Season.

'The Roundabout Gala. From Stage To Screen'
Support Roundabout at the biggest fundraiser of the season at an evening of Hollywood glamour and Broadway flair. The event honors director/choreographer Rob Marshall (Cabaret, Company, She Loves Me, Little Me) and will feature a seated dinner and a star-studded tribute.
Directed by Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes) and hosted by Martin Short (Little Me).

'Dont Drees For Dinner'
Mark Camoletti’s Don’t Dress for Dinner, the wildly funny sequel to Broadway’s smash-hit Boeing-Boeing, is coming to the Roundabout Theatre Company, and it’s going to be an affair—or three!—to remember. Everyone is guaranteed a good time in this hilarious new comedy about a husband, a wife, a lover, a mistress and a cook thrown together in the same house for one riotous weekend.
John Tillinger directs.
March 30th through June 17th, 2012.


'The Common Pursuit'
Tony Award® nominee Moisés Kaufman (33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife) directs celebrated playwright Simon Gray's sharply comedic tale about the promises of youth and the compromises of adulthood. Chronicling twenty years in the lives of six college friends, The Common Pursuit is a captivating journey from who we think we are...to who we turn out to be.
Performances start May 4th, 2012.

'Harvey'
Two-time Emmy winner and Golden Globe Award winner Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”), Jessica Hecht (After the Fall) and Charles Kimbrough (The Merchant of Venice) return to Broadway in Harvey, the Pulitzer Prize­–winning comedy by Mary Chase.
Directed by Scott Ellis.
May 18th through August 5th, 2012.

'The Mystery Of Edwin Drood'
You choose the murderer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the whodunit smash based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens and adapted by Tony Award–winning writer/composer Rupert Holmes (Curtains). Tony winner Chita Rivera (Nine) stars in the musical’s first first Broadway revival since winning Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score! Tony nominee Scott Ellis (She Loves Me) directs.

'Look Back In Anger'
William Inge's Pulitzer Prize–winning play Picnic returns to Broadway in a striking new production helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold (Roundabout’s Look Back in Anger, Seminar). Passionate, sensual and delightfully funny, Picnic is a timeless American classic about the line between restraint and desire.
Now on stage.

'The Unavoidable Disappearance Of Tom Durmin'
Tom Durnin did the time for his white-collar crime. Now, he’s determined to win back the respect he believes he deserves—even if that means ripping apart the new life his family has put together. From playwright Steven Levenson (Roundabout’s acclaimed The Language of Trees) comes this funny, raw and moving world premiere about the price of defaulting on those we love.
Scott Ellis directs.