"Never the Luck" from "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"

Drood (originally The Mystery of Edwin Drood) is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel by the same name. The show was written by Rupert Holmes, and was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings (determined by audience vote). Holmes received Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score. The musical won five Tony Awards out of eleven nominations, including Best Musical.

This excerpt is from a community theatre production at Fourth Street Theatre, Chesterton, Indiana. In this scene, Mr. Bax, the character actor who plays the bit part of Bazzard, laments how he seems to be stuck playing roles on the margins of productions, but how he hopes to someday take center stage in his own right. The melody actually reprises later in the show if Bazzard is selected as the murderer. I had a little extra fun -- each night of the run, I held out the final note just a hair longer (hence, the repeated final chords from the piano!) As for the lady from the audience -- she was not an audience plant, but I had the luck of having my girlfriend in the audience that evening!

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Music

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• Drood
• musical
• NIETF
• Never the Luck
• Bazzard
• Bax