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Jasper counts as this since, even though he's Obviously Evil, most of the characters trust him and believe he's a good man, with only a few seeing him for what he is, in addition to the entire audience.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Aside from the Hot-Blooded Neville, this applies to every murderer.

Beware the Nice Ones: If Rosa Bud, Crisparkle, or Bazzard gets elected murderer.

Audience Participation: Encouraged at multiple points, and vital to selecting which of the Multiple Endings the cast goes with.

But that's nothing compared to his murder confession, where Bazzard talks of his desire to be a legend in his time, and how he tried to pass himself off as an ace detective by killing Drood and then solving the crime himself. If elected as Datchery, this plays directly into his motivation for cracking the case, as he'll admit that his actions were both to clear Neville's name and to boost his personal vanity.

Attention Whore: Bazzard is defined by his desire to play a larger part.

In-Universe, while Chairman William Cartwright already had plenty to do as the show's master of ceremonies, he was not originally intended to play an actual character within the story, only doing so when Mayor Sapsea's actor has become too indisposed to do so.

A real life version would be Durdles, who was not a murder suspect in the original Broadway production but would go on to be made one starting with the first national tour, and has remained a potential murderer ever since.

The Deputy isn't much more than a highlighted ensemble member in the overall show, but he's given the chance to be voted as a lover at the end, being the only non principle actor whose eligible for any kind of voting.

Also worth noting, Bazzard often fares well in the voting, with Rupert Holmes acknowledging that he's the big favorite for the Datchery vote.

He can take this even further, being eligible for all of the three voting roles later, increasing the size of his roel even more. Bazzard's actor is depressed being stuck in a small, thankless role, but is given the chance by the Chairman to perform his own solo number. An In-Universe example that always occurs each show.

EDWIN DROOD CAST LIST FULL

While Durdles and especially Crisparkle are still principle roles who do get solos within larger songs, neither gets a full fledged song of their own outside of voting, where both are given the opportunity one can have a full on solo as the murderer, a duet and romantic scene as one of the lovers, or in Crisparkle's case, another solo as Dick Datchery.The main draw of the show is getting to vote on your favorites to give them a little more material and relevance, whether it's making them sing a love song near the end, sing a solo where they unveil themselves as the detective and point to the murder suspect, or the big one, getting their own Villain Song where they admit to killing Edwin Drood.Ascended Extra: Quite a few examples both within the show, in real life, and a combination of both.All Musicals Are Adaptations: Played with, as the musical in question is technically adapting an unfinished work.The original production won five Tony awards, and featured George Rose as the Chairman, Howard McGillin as the music hall's leading man and portrayer of John Jasper, and Betty Buckley as the guest artist and "male impersonator" playing Edwin Drood. In addition, the audience also votes on which character turns out to be the mysterious detective Dick Datchery, and which two characters fall (sometimes suddenly) in love for the finale. The show uses the framing device of being a Show Within a Show, performed each night by supposed members of a Victorian music hall-which were popular around the time of Dickens' death-and is hosted by the Chairman, William Cartwright, who narrates the proceedings, plays one of the minor roles himself, and conducts the polling process by which the identity the titular character's murderer is decided. Because the source material was a murder mystery with an unfinished ending, the musical determines the ending each night by Audience Participation. Drood, originally entitled The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is a 1985 musical comedy with music, lyrics, book, and orchestrations by Rupert Holmes, based on the unfinished novel of the same name by Charles Dickens.