The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a thrilling and comical play within a play, originally based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. Full of intrigue and mystery, the story follows the exploits of the Theatre Royale Music Hall Company. The Tony Award winning score is full of beautiful and evocative melodies, encapsulating the Victorian vaudevillian spirit of the show.
Wendi Peters stars as Princess Puffer in the musical. And it's not the first time she's tread the boards as an actress on stage. Wendi has performed in a variety of productions including Brighouse’s The Game, April In Paris, Cecelia Ahern’sMrs Whippy, Grumpy Old Women Live 2 – Chin Up Britain and Noises Off. Also no stranger to musicals, Wendi has appeared in national tours of Hello Dolly! and Guys and Dolls, as well as The Scarlet Pimpernel, Into the Woods and Follies In Concert.
Wendi became a fan of The Mystery of Edwin Drood after watching the 1986 Tony Awards on television and seeing the original Broadway cast perform; she is delighted to be playing Princess Puffer for this London revival.
She says “I love the idea of old time Music Hall mixed in with Dickens. The score is so beautiful, a real mix of genres, from Music Hall through Broadway to almost Classical”.
The role of Princess Puffer is one that Wendi has been keen to play for a long time. “Dickens creates such fabulous characters - they are so funny, he really was ahead of his time. They are almost 'soap' like. Since seeing the clips of the show in 1986 it's always been a role I've had my eye on, and now 26 years on I'm getting to the right age! She is a larger than life ‘grande dame’ of the Music Hall; playing a run-down woman who runs an opium den - I can't wait, but it's the show as a whole that's the real pull”.
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