BREAKING NEWS: Constantine Maroulis to Star in Broadway-Bound JEKYLL & HYDE Tour; Launches Fall 2012 — Page 3

Jekyll & HYDE was a huge tourist draw back in the day (any show with 1500+ performances despite a small financial flop is not a shocking revival), and it still is played tons not only nationally, but is huge international as well. I remember one of the reviews even said "It will run as long as Phantom!"

Jekyll has been very very profitable for the producers in the long run!

In terms of Lucy: I question if Kate Shindle will be pulled to do it. She did the role on Broadway (briefly - at 20 or so from what I remember; She also had to go with out any rehearsals with anyone in the cast at one point I believe the story goes!). Linda was of course about 35 when the role finally came to Broadway. Kate also did the Resurrection tour.

In terms of the replacements, they all did bring something different: Mason did the role with more edge and sex appeal, Coleen was very young and naive, and of course, Linda has that voice.

If Calhoun has so much potential, wouldn't it have surfaced by now? He ain't no kid. The only thing I liked was BIG RIVER and that was heavily influenced by Def West.

If it plays Broadway wouldn't it still count as a revival? Lots of tours have played Broadway and are listed on IBDB as either revivals or return engagements. This would certainly not be a return engagement of the previous Broadway production.

Mister Matt, I'm pretty sure the original production of Chicago just made it into the black before it closed.

The original production of Chicago recouped its investment before it closed.

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As an original "jekkie" who's spent a lot of time and $$ watching this baby grow, I'm happy it will have "A New Life". Hoping the new direction will be a refreshing change.

The Nelander Org. is involved with this and someone very close to J & H is part if that Org. So chances are this will be well supported. They're smart to tour it once again before mounting it on Bd'w. Constantine is an excellent choice, IMO.

@ Philly, don't have any heads up as to other casting and wouldn't post it if I did. But there's a lot of hopefulls as you can imagine. I saw Kate fill in for Lucy on her 4th performance. She was very good!

Radar will be out for this one. Here we go again!

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philly: if J&H was a "huge" tourist draw it would have made a lot of money, it was a "medium" draw at best, just covering the rent week by week.

There is more than one dead horse here. If investors want to produce a show, they produce it. Even revivals that flopped the first time around. Be it Jekyll & Hyde or Ragtime or Follies. In the end, money dictates what gets produced and it has nothing to do with how we feel about it.

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The show ran four years.. breaking even or not.. it was selling fine. Of course the celeb casting went a little too far (though Jack Wagner was capable; Sebastian Bach was fun to watch.. Hoff .. I'll stand clear), but how did the show run for 4 years with so much theatre hate then? (The smaller house, obviously, played into why it didn't recoup)