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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:06pm

...is getting me into Jekyll and Hyde.

It has SUCH a catchy tune...

Move over Dracula...

(bet you thought this was about something else, huh?)
Updated On: 3/23/05 at 09:06 PM

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:10pm

What are your favorite J&H songs?

[ShuQ]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:11pm

Well I haven't heard many...but I heard a duet from it once and now can't remember the name..but it was great. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:12pm

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

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:13pm

The complete album with Anthony Warlow (Where the song comes from) is 500% better than the bway recording, which is good too. My favorite songs are any that Lucy sings because she is my fav. character in the show and "Confrontation," especially on the COMPLETE recording because Warlow sounds like two completely different men and makes is unbelivably creepy. It is one of my favorite cds.

Also, "In His Eyes" is one of the best bway love songs of ALL TIME!!!!

Updated On: 2/13/05 at 09:13 PM

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:16pm

Does the Complete recording follow the book well?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:20pm

I have never read the book (BAD SPIDER, I know) but it adds a lot more to the story, especially Lucy's side. Also it adds more to the Jekyll-Emma/Lisa (both recordings have different names for this character)relationship. In my opinion, the story, voices, and instrumentals are a lot better on the complete recording. They really should have done the show based on that recording, instead of cutting it up like they did.

Updated On: 2/13/05 at 09:20 PM

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:22pm

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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:23pm

Wait, they changed the name to Emma on the OBC or the Complete Recording?

(Sorry, I am starting to get into Wildhorn's stuff - esp. Jekyll and Hyde)

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:25pm

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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:27pm

Who is in the book, I know you didn't read it...

I can't remember a single thing about the book!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:29pm

As in the stars or the Characters?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:30pm

lol, well I assume no stars were in the book...I mean the characters in the book!

I forget...

Is anyone else waiting for Wildhorn to put the Invisible Man on stage?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:34pm

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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:38pm

I was reading the libretto for the concept recording...most of the names I remember from the book...

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:39pm

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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:40pm

Yes, i like him from les mis..

Yes, I am def. going to get it...

[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:49pm

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.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:50pm

Thanks..I want to read the book again...

After I finish Dracula in Russian...

I have WAY too much to read!

[magic8ball]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 5:38am

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.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 8:21am

magic8ball - I agree with mostly everything you said, but I still think GOOD 'N EVIL is better lyrically and especially musically than BRING ON THE MEN. BOTM just sounds so amateurish to me, while G&E seems more professional.

What is it that everyone loves about BOTM?

- Michael

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:12am

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.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 3:15pm

I agree that G'n'E is kind of beating the idea of the show down...but I like it...I love Façade - it reminds me of The ballad(s) of Sweeney Todd...

I just got the OBC...

I plan on getting the Cpmplete concept with Anthony - I'm actually likeing the music a lot...maybe more than Dracula...I think I'll have to get the DVD so I can see the actual staging, etc.

After hearing it though, I think that Dracula could also have so much potential if some melodies and lyrics were changed and the book was altered.

I realized a lot of the lyrics and a lot of the score of J&H is also in Dracula "endless night" - then "touch the light" to the same tune as "I'd give all my yesterdays to touch the light" in Dracula)...

I see that Dracula has A LOT more potential now. Frank did say Dracula didn't turn out how he wanted. I think he needs to rework it. Unfortunately, it has been killed for Broadway and its only chance would be to have AMAZING reviews. Frank will never receive such reviews, sadly...

Bitch, bitch, bitch does seem very out of place. But it is a nice break from the slow, somber music and a pretty funny song. It is like a very good version of "The Modern World" (Dracula) because it sets the mood of the scene and the upper class.

Updated On: 2/14/05 at 03:15 PM

[broadwayplayer]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 3:40pm

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

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 2/14/05 at 3:57pm

i need to know is one of my all time favorite songs to sing. I fully prefer the concept cast to the b'way version, especially the original version of facade