According to the release, he has won identical honors from the New York Drama Desk, with a fourth award in their additional category for his orchestrations. Holmes is the first person in theatrical history to singly win Tony awards as a playwright, a lyricist, and a composer. In addition to “Solitary Confinement,” the play’s author, Holmes is best known for penning many popular songs recorded by Barbra Streisand and others and broke into the popular music scene with his performance of "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)," the release explained. The brilliance of this story will challenge your imagination and powers of deduction - every time you think you’ve figured out the story, it twists and turns, upending your perceptions and reshaping Jannings’ fate. This wildly unique murder mystery by Rupert Holmes becomes a thrilling and funny whodunit, the release stated.
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It becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse between the paranoid Jannings and the mysterious would-be assassin.
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Fountain Hills Theater is the first theater to present Holmes’ 2022 adaptation of his Broadway comedy/thriller.Īs explained in the release, the story follows eccentric billionaire Richard Jannings when he discovers that someone is trying to murder him in his high rise, security-controlled penthouse. Fountain Hills Theater announced that for their upcoming production the multiple Tony and Edgar award-winning author of “Solitary Confinement,” Rupert Holmes, will be updating his clever thriller exclusively for the theater.Īccording to a press release, when the theater first contacted Holmes for the rights to produce his extremely unique play, he conveyed that he’d long wanted to revise his script for the present day.