Springfield Contemporary Theatre's 25th season opens with the winner of the 1986 Tony Award for Best Musical, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza. Performances are June 14-30. We talked on “Arts News” with the show’s director Rick Dines and actor Heath Hillhouse. Rupert Holmes created this show in 1986, based on the famously unfinished last novel by Charles Dickens about a young Englishman whose sudden disappearance throws the local townspeople into a panic, with everyone pointing fingers at everyone else. It won the Tony that year for Best Musical, and has only been presented in one other production in Springfield that we know about: Little Theatre produced “Drood” in 1989, soon after it had become available to regional theaters. The director of SCT’s new production, Rick Dines, thinks it’s a shame it hasn’t been performed more often locally. “It’s a fantastic show, a real crowd-pleaser. It has a gorgeous score. It’s funny—funny as can be.” But how is it
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