B*tch, B*tch, B*tch....JEKYLL & HYDE (BWW Fan thread)

What are your favorite J&H songs?

was it a duet between the girls or between a boy and girl?

Does the Complete recording follow the book well?

I love "I Need To Know." But I must admit I detest "Bring on the Men." I think "Good 'N Evil" is way better musically and lyrically.

- Michael

"Lisa" was used for the Complete Recording and "Emma" was used for the bway recording.

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As in the stars or the Characters?

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Oops, my bad. The only ones that I can remember on the top of my head of characters in the COMPLETE recording are:

Jekyll/Hyde
Jekyll's friend (Can't remember his name)
Lucy
Lisa
Lisa's father
Simon Stride
The board of governors

and that is all I can remember

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It's amazing. You should check it out sometime. Oh yeah.....WARLOW IS A MUSICAL GOD!!!!!!

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Attention all, I have read the book!

Yes, the complete recording is very close to the book. Utterson has a much bigger role in the actual story. Its interesting, the book sort of starts in the middle, and then at the end, Utterson finds his lab journal with all his recountings of the project, after he's already dead. So the whole bit about the wedding doesn't happen in the book, if I remember correctly.

Great book.

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It's so odd... all of the material that was cut from the 1994 Concept version for the Broadway version is STRIDES beyond what was left to be included in the show. "I Need To Know", "Bring on the Men" (which is 1,000,000 times better than the "dammit-we-get-the-point-of-the-show-already" train wreck "Good & Evil"), "The Girls of the Night", and "The World Has Gone Insane" are some of my favorite songs in the show.

Plus, as it has been stated before, Anthony Warlow may be the best male vocalist of all time.

"Jekyll & Hyde" is definitely my favorite Wildhorn piece... Unlike his other stuff, the material has TONS of potential, but no one has yet to stage it properly.

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I was a fan of J&H when it originally premiered and absolutely LOVED the show that resembled the 2 CD recording, but I hated what ended up on Broadway. Bring on the Men was FAR superior both in staging and writing to Good and Evil (which was originally the 2nd act opening sung by the owner of the pub). The music to Good and Evil just wasn't vibrant enough to justify as a flashy cabaret number and worked far better as incidental recitative music. The lyrics were redundant to the plot as we have already been given all the information that is in the song by Dr. Jekyll in the Board of Governor's scene and also as social commentary in Facade. There was no reason to hear it all over again especially when accompanied by Linda in a faux Napolean outfit and spandex-clad devil boys. It was absurd and meaningless.

Bring on the Men is EXACTLY what you would expect to see and hear from those characters in that setting. They are prostitutes performing a burlesque cabaret number in a seedy pub. It's SUPPOSED to sound amateurish! Put the song in context of the show and you'll realize it makes much more sense than Good and Evil. It was fun and exciting and belty and had the audience cheering in the first two productions of J&H. The third production staged it with rather unusual Mardis Gras-esque constumes that made no sense in the setting and it was clear that the show was starting on its downward spiral to what became the Broadway production.

Bitch Bitch Bitch was a cute song, but unecessary and a little too cute for the tone of the show. I think it would have worked better in The Scarlet Pimpernel. From what I remember, The World Has Gone Insane was recorded but never actually appeared in the show. It may have been in the first production, but I can't remember at the moment. I'd have to look it up.

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I really loved "Girls of the Night" from the concept CD. Also, "I Need to Know" was great.