JEKYLL & HYDE Reviews

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 3:30pm

Post 'em here! :)

[jekyllforever]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 3:44pm

[jekyllforever]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 3:44pm

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 3:53pm

This thread is going to be better than anything on TV tonight.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:04pm

Batten down the hatches. It's going to be a bumpy ride tonight.

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:07pm

I'm making gin martinis...extra dirty

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:08pm

I bought some good 420.

[jekyllforever]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:10pm

Yeah, and why is that? This show and no other?

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:12pm

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:12pm

OOPs. Ok. I will leave it.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:17pm

That about sums it up, I think.

[elphaba.scares.me]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:33pm

Ugh...not looking forward to this one. I think Cox and Wicks will get a pass (although I was underwhelmed by Cox).

But I think Calhoun and Wildhorn will get pummeled and undo much of the good will they each established last season.

And again: ugh.

[evic]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 4:48pm

And the closing notice goes up in 5 4 3 2 1.......

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:06pm

Backstage is a pan (D+):

Oh man, the opening paragraph is excellent.

"The bill for stage smoke must be a big one over at the Marquis Theatre. The stuff billows forth in unrelenting profusion during director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun’s expressionistic, would-be steampunk revival of “Jekyll & Hyde,” composer Frank Wildhorn and book writer–lyricist Leslie Bricusse’s monumentally dumb 1997 Broadway musical adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novella. Unfortunately, it never achieves the critical mass necessary to obscure the proceedings."

http://www.backstage.com/review/ny-theater/broadway/jekyll-and-hyde-constantine-maroulis-deborah-cox-frank-wildhorn-leslie-bricusse-robert-louis-stevenson/

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:08pm

Just read this. I am on the couch like Bette Midler.. drink and supplies in front. Happy Thursday everyone!

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:19pm

At least Backstage gave Constantine lots of credit.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:20pm

[tazber]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:34pm

Did anyone honestly think this was going to get anything other than pans?

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:35pm

No honey. But let us have our night.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:37pm

Waiting for the Times review, I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:39pm

I think someone should make a fun dare like... "if the times review is a rave I will eat something..."

Jordan.. why don't you offer to eat something? Make it something good.

Updated On: 4/18/13 at 07:39 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:42pm

PERFECT! Made me gag as much as the show.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:49pm

The AP is... positive? I think?:

What a strange review.

"The sets and costumes all come together thrilling in the Act 1 song “Facade,” in which five odd people appear in their underwear and are then dressed by their servants to slowly emerge in their societal roles — a priest, a soldier, a lord, a lady and a lawyer. Pity they all must die.

Sometimes when watching “Jekyll & Hyde” there are moments when it seems like what you’re watching is outtakes from “This Is Spinal Tap.” But that’s this show’s charm. You’ll always be of two minds about it, so just give in to the silly side."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/review-jekyll-and-hyde-revival-a-beautiful-steampunk-take-thats-overwrought-_-in-a-good-way/2013/04/18/5befaab0-a881-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:49pm

Monumentally dumb? Really?

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:52pm

"Monumentally dumb? Really?"


You really want us to answer that?