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Cracking the Case of Charles Dickens' Unfinished Novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Madcap Musical It Inspired by Marc Snetiker

Even the greatest sleuths can’t get to the bottom of Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a novel that was left unfinished when the author died suddenly halfway through writing it. A century later, Dickens’ fragmentary story inspired a zany 1985 Broadway musical, which is back on Broadway this fall in its first major revival. Before cracking the case, we dug up the Dickensian dirt on this in…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PM on November 1, 2012

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