So, it's beautiful and it lets me soar in soprano and also the belt is written in there, too. So even if I spoke low, every time I would sing it would go into that female range. Where it's pitched in my voice, and where Rupert's written the range, is definitely a female range. But then I really started to listen to the entire and this glorious complicated score that Rupert has written. I had one song in my audition book and it was "Moonfall." That was my legitimate ballad. I wasn't familiar with The Mystery of Edwin Drood. You run the gamut from soprano to high belt. There's some big singing for the character of Edwin Drood in this show. The audience should just understand that there's a female under all that and then they buy into the idea that she's the romantic young male lead. That's what Rupert has developed, and there's never a sort of "Voilà! Look at me!" moment. We know it's a woman playing a boy, but you just go with the whole conceit and believe the story that's being told. I kind of liken it to Mary Martin playing Peter Pan. It would be someone that the audience would absolutely recognize. So this isn't something that's out of the ordinary for a London audience of that time in the music hall. And one of the great things, the pantomimes they put on there, the leading boy character would always be played by a recognized cross-dresser: a wonderful female performer who is very well-known to be a male impersonator. It takes place in 1895 in a music hall in London. What Rupert Holmes did when he wrote The Mystery of Edwin Drood is that we're music hall performers playing these characters. For audiences unfamiliar with the musical from its 1985 debut, or its source material, they might think the actual mystery is Edwin's identity because the show is written for a woman to play the title role. Block: It is! The great thing about my costumes, which has never happened to me before, is I get to go to a men's tailoring shop! This is the first time for me to be in Broadway wardrobe everything is tailored to a man. You've had some fantastic costumes in your other Broadway outings, but it has to be fun being fitted for men's clothes to play Drood. The Roundabout Theatre Company produces the current revival that also boasts Chita Rivera, Will Chase, Jessie Mueller and Jim Norton. The musical - which allows audiences to vote on the ending of Charles Dickens' final, unfinished tale - first debuted in 1985. Block has gone green as Elphaba in Wicked, tapped her way through Anything Goes as Reno Sweeney, commandeered her own ship in The Pirate Queen and even frug'ed as Liza Minnelli in The Boy from Oz.īlock has now traded in her girl drag to play the pants off the title role in Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which opened Nov.
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