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...couldn't exactly say that Dickens is hot right now, but something is going on with him. Not just with his work, but with Dickens the person. So far this year he's turned up as a character in Dan Simmons' Drood and Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens, both of which deal with his final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Writers love to prey on their own kind anyway, but what's so intriguing about Dickens is the disconnect between his life and his art. His novels are full of last-minute redemptions and neat resolutions...
...wasn't published widely until four or so years after his death. Three centuries later, a trio of Jane Austen novels - Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Love and Friendship - were released after the Pride and Prejudice author's death in 1817. Charles Dicken's final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, remains unfinished; readers will never know what happened to its vanished main character. For a while, a mini-cottage industry arose around posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway - bullfighting tome The Dangerous Summer, Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast and novels Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway...
Even the orchestra, usually the bane of Harvard musicals, does its job well. It avoids the cardinal sun of drowning out the sin of drowning out the cast a special danger at the Agassiz with its wretched acoustics, and one that nearly sunk "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" two years ago. The jazzy score requires more precision and conviction than most there is very little room for judging in the trills of the mambo and America," and this group, reinforced by angers from the New England Conservatory and the Berklee and Longy Schools, is equal to it the few lapses...
...going to see 'Drood' Saturday and 'TeenageLust' tonight. I'm going to amuse myself quitenicely here," she said...
Audience participation in the voting process for resolving the play is smoothly carried out. And from all accounts, the cast has capably handled the demands of performing different endings each night. Drood is by far the most entertaining show going on this weekend, an attractive alternative to the Game...