

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Auditions for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Directed by Jeff Manus
Music directed by Susan Lisle

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel of the same name. In the small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone else even more dastardly and villainous? Dickens passed away before he was able to reveal the culprit. Rupert Holmes’ award-winning musical solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote. Staged in a metatheatrical manner by the Music Hall Royale, a traveling Victorian theatre troupe full of just as many colorful characters as the roles they play, this charming and inventive musical is sure to intrigue and entertain any musical or mystery lover.
4W, 7M plus ENSEMBLE

“Jolly good fun!” – The New York Post
“Spontaneous fun... the company and audience become united, as intended, in the joy of theatrical invention.” – Frank Rich, The New York Times
“For sheer fun, this show is hard to top.” – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/gastonia/auditions-for-the-mystery-of-edwin-drood/200029625791928
- **Event Categories**: live-music, art, theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 35

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029625791928?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=gastonia-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Gastonia
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 162 East Main Ave. , Gastonia, NC, United States, North Carolina 28052
- **lat**: 35.26398
- **long**: -81.18075
- **full address**: 162 East Main Ave. , Gastonia, NC, United States, North Carolina 28052

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: FUMC Theatre (https://allevents.in/org/fumc-theatre/23160717)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 01 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 162 East Main Ave. , Gastonia, NC, United States, North Carolina 28052
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** FUMC Theatre
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** live-music, art, theatre
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Auditions for The Mystery of Edwin Drood ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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