Thank you for posting this -- I have been looking for this for 15 years! In the summer of 1986, I had a VCR tape running all weekend hoping to catch this on VH1, where it originally aired as a contest. I'm not sure, but I think the Grand Prize was a trip to NYC to see "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" on Broadway.
@tommytimp On its own....very weird. If you read Dickens or saw the show.....not so weird as the show revolved around androgyny and murder and every night, if I recall, in the Broadway production, the murderer changed so you never were sure who did what to whom. For a music video, seeing it for the 1st time, reaction is 'WTF"? Put it in context, though, and it is all perfectly explainable and apropos, for a video of this sort, I mean, for a Broadway show. Read the Dickens novel of the same name!
@sarmadasco The show makes perfect sense. (I saw it thrice and it was the first show I ever did in stock.) This video is just odd. In context the whodunit makes sense, it's just odd that a Bway show would do this kind of "popping" for promo purposes, Holmes's success in the pop fieldnotwithstanding. I guess if you can cross over you give it a try.
I think it was Weber.
jaspar38 1 month ago
Ahh, the flawlessness of Edwin Drood. How can this video not get you excited about the upcoming Roundabout revival?
JonMeFree 2 months ago
AWESOME show !!!!
purser132 7 months ago
Thank you for posting this -- I have been looking for this for 15 years! In the summer of 1986, I had a VCR tape running all weekend hoping to catch this on VH1, where it originally aired as a contest. I'm not sure, but I think the Grand Prize was a trip to NYC to see "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" on Broadway.
njames74 7 months ago
Wow, that's just brilliant stuff! Is it possible to get other songs as well? Anywhere?
kricert 8 months ago
sorry for the repeated post lol my bad. @PatrickLMT maybe they mean like who finished him off but good observation
MusicalBoy81 8 months ago
only George Rose could get excited about a random dead body. He's so epic. lol at 3:54 the drain its just to funny
MusicalBoy81 8 months ago
only George Rose could get excited about a random dead body. He's so epic.
MusicalBoy81 8 months ago
That's so weird. What was the purpose of this?
tommytimp 9 months ago
@tommytimp On its own....very weird. If you read Dickens or saw the show.....not so weird as the show revolved around androgyny and murder and every night, if I recall, in the Broadway production, the murderer changed so you never were sure who did what to whom. For a music video, seeing it for the 1st time, reaction is 'WTF"? Put it in context, though, and it is all perfectly explainable and apropos, for a video of this sort, I mean, for a Broadway show. Read the Dickens novel of the same name!
sarmadasco 7 months ago
@sarmadasco The show makes perfect sense. (I saw it thrice and it was the first show I ever did in stock.) This video is just odd. In context the whodunit makes sense, it's just odd that a Bway show would do this kind of "popping" for promo purposes, Holmes's success in the pop fieldnotwithstanding. I guess if you can cross over you give it a try.
tommytimp 7 months ago
How lovely to see the late George Rose. He is sadly missed.
mikeysussex 1 year ago