... all about Rupert Holmes' smash hit Broadway musical, winner of Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score, Best Director and Best Actor, and since performed somewhere on this planet virtually every day of the year. A stirring new production has been running since Spring 2001 at The Shaw Festival in Ontario. Watch for its Japanese language premiere in Tokyo in 2002.
Rupert created a musical score for William Shakespeare's
TWELFTH NIGHT. The production was, like DROOD, presented by The New York Shakespeare Festival and the legendary Joe Papp.
... as much as we're allowed to divulge about Rupert Holmes' intricately deceptive and hilarious Broadway comedy-thriller, starring Jason Alexander and Michael McKean, which received the highly-coveted Edgar Award (the 'Oscar' of Crime) from The Mystery Writers of America. This devilishly-clever thriller is now performed throughout the world, including a Helsinki debut this year in the Finnish language. Sag Harbor's distinguished Bay Street Theatre and Chicago's exciting Buffalo Theatre Ensemble have staged intriguing productions in the last few months.
Information coming soon.
... Holmes' tour de force for actor Stacy Keach which broke the box office record for a non-musical at The Kennedy Center. A technically challenging play, it is having a first-class revival at The American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City with the noteworthy Mark Robbins in the lead.
... this huge stage production inspired by R.L. Stine's best-selling children's suspense books was written and directed by Rupert Holmes and toured under the banner of producer Kenneth Feld (Barnum & Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice) throughout the United States, Canada and England.
... winner of 2000's Best New Play Carbonell Award for its Coconut Grove Playhouse run, this Holmes-authored evening with America's favorite centegenarian is directed by John Tillinger and stars Frank Gorshin as George Burns. It is slated for a New York premiere in 2002.
... a staged reading of this new musical based on the Academy Award-winning work by Paddy Chayevsky, with book by Rupert Holmes, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, was performed recently in New York, directed by Mark Brokaw, starring John C. Reilly as Marty. Producers are currently negotiating for a full-scale production in 2002.
... Holmes' newest comedy-thriller (starring Kathie Lee Gifford and Diana Canova) which, this Spring, became the most successful play in the history of the Helen Hayes Theatre Company.
... Rupert Holmes' first full-scale stage musical since
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is just being completed as we go to press.