This is a song that oozes sexuality, perfectly captured in a Gothic style.
Moonfall mystery of edwin drood lyrics skin#
“All sound is frozen still, yet warm against me your skin will warm the chill of Moonfall, I feel its fingers….”.“I’ll bathe in moonfall and dress myself in dew”.Perhaps the first two or three times you hear the song it does not stand out as anything especially sexual or brazen, yet the more you listen the stronger the imagery within the lyrics become: In fact it is rather hard to come up with a song that is more classically erotic in the musical theatre canon, it is something more akin to a French opera, or a piece of Verdi or Puccini than musical theatre. It suddenly thrusts the audience into a Gothic environment with a piece of finger-biting lyrical eroticism. Sitting within a show that plays on music hall, panto-esque tropes a lot of the time, it sticks out – deliberately – like a sore thumb. However with additional consideration of the lyrics are further surface elements to the song. Indeed the song itself, while not exactly ever-present or played out, is probably as popular or well known as the musical itself if not more so. It can (and has) been taken out of context by a large variety of singers from classical to blues and stand on its own as a concert piece. One night he invites her to sing a song written specialy for her: Moonfall.įirstly it has to be noted that this is a stunning Romantic ballad in and of its own right without any consideration of the lyrics. The dangerous side of him is ragingly jealous of Edwin owing to an possessive Gothic obsession with Rosa. His dear friend and Uncle, the dual-personalitied choirmaster John Jasper, is her music tutor. Fortunately this occurs early in the narrative so this won’t take up too much further space:Įdwin Drood has been engaged to the virginal Miss Rosa Bud since childhood. Now for the context of the song, which resides comfortably within the actual Book plot. At the interval, audience members determine much of the action of the second half by voting collectively on who both the secret detective and the murderer are (and sometime a pair of lovers) – thus there are different versions of at least three numbers in the second half depending on the audience vote.These players sporadically leave character and respond as themselves, along with scheduled interruptions from the chairman leading proceedings.
The performance of Edwin Drood is performed with traditional music hall tropes and characterisation, including the role of Edwin being played by a woman. This is supported by a framing plot of Victorian music hall players.
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