JEKYLL & HYDE Reviews- Page 2

[DAME]

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

"Monumentally dumb? Really?"


You really want us to answer that?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:54pm

Don't get me wrong, this production looks monumentally dumb, but I wouldn't say that about the original.

[supersam1026]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:55pm

Broadway.com's Word of Mouth can give a bad review?!?!
http://www.broadway.com/videos/154750/did-our-word-of-mouth-panelists-take-in-the-thrills-at-jekyll-hyde/#play

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:56pm

^Two of the three didn't like Matilda either.

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:58pm

If anyone reads the other board, be sure to check out Jesse21's scathing one star review. Not sure if this link will work but here goes:

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=2135069

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 8:04pm

Speaking of talkinbroadway, Matthew Murray is negative:

"But watching this revival, which Jeff Calhoun is credited as directing and choreographing, I found myself wondering not just what I had ever mildly enjoyed about the original post-Broadway national tour (starring Chuck Wagner, for the record), but how anyone thought this could live off of disc (or, in modern parlance, Spotify). It's not that the story itself, about a desperate Doctor Henry Jekyll injecting himself with a serum that breaks off the evil portion into the sinister Edward Hyde, is not workable. It's that, without involvement of artists of the highest calibre on both sides of the footlights, it barely can even stand up."

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/JekyllHyde2013.html

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 8:05pm

What "goodwill" did Wildorn establish last season?

[elphaba.scares.me]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 8:09pm

His first Tony nomination in a decade, for "Bonnie and Clyde."

And it seemed to me that the routine beating-up of his shows had become tiresome to many, even if in plenty of instances, it was well-deserved.

Plenty of people thought the critics were too hard on the show, specifically because it was his project, and that it closed sooner than it should have.

For a guy whose shows are slaughtered like baby lambs on a regular basis, a Tony nom was a big deal.

Anyway...

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 8:13pm

This is a blood bath. I knew the critics would eat this alive when I saw it back in October. It's a Wildhorn show through and through...

[metropolis10111]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 8:40pm

I've waited to read these reviews I'm even watching them while on holiday in Cancun.. Just ordered a pitcher of margaritas

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:05pm

Atta gurrrl.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:07pm

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:12pm

"All come together thrilling" would make a great pull quote and go quite nicely with the 90's high-end straight porn vibe of the marketing.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:12pm

Jordan, what did you say you were going to eat? Did it get deleted?

[mpd4165]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:14pm

Jordan, I love you so much for Margaret Foster's photo.

[dsleft]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:25pm

These posts are all way too funny, I love it! I am new here, and boy, THIS is entertainment!

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:28pm

Jordan why did you delete that?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:33pm

I didn't delete anything!

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:41pm

Are you sure mama? Tu no eres moderator? Hmmmmmmmmm

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:42pm

Can Jordan be a moderator? Like please?

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:42pm

Yes. He can.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:44pm

At least he knows what goes on here.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:55pm

amNY is a pan (0 stars):

"Unbelievably enough, it is actually easier to watch YouTube clips of Hasselhoff than Jeff Calhoun’s (“Newsies”) re-conceived, garish and extremely unnecessary revival with “American Idol” alumnus Constantine Maroulis and R&B singer Deborah Cox, which is playing a short run on Broadway following a national tour.
Calhoun makes many unfortunate choices, including over-stressing the score’s rock elements and using both nauseating video graphics and violent sexual imagery."

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/theater-review-jekyll-hyde-no-stars-1.5101232

[Kad]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:56pm

Time Out is 1 star, by Adam Feldman.

Accenting Jekyll & Hyde’s best asset—Wildhorn’s rousing melodies—and hitting the rest at off angles whenever possible, Calhoun and his crew excise much of the original production’s most ostentatious terribleness, leaving mere very-badness in its place. The Act II opener, for instance, is now less ludicrously jaunty, and the big “Confrontation” between our antihero’s two identities is no longer (alas for camp followers!) performed as a hair-flipping coup de théâtre. But the show’s bathetic nadir-climax is intact. “Damn you, Hyde!” Jekyll screams. “Take all your evil deeds and rot in hell!” Hyde retorts: “I’ll see you there, Jekyll!” Godspeed.


"Has any musical so essentially ridiculous been graced with a revival?"

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 9:56pm

Entertainment Weekly is negative (C-):

"But there are so many puzzlements in this production, which is both over- and under-directed by Jeff Calhoun (whose credits include last season's Disney hit Newsies and Wildhorn flop Bonnie & Clyde). There are Maroulis' mutton chops, which threaten to take over his entire face; the choreography in Cox's bordello-set 'Bring On the Men' — an S&M-inspired, quasi-Cabaret, rope-swirling maypole-esque mess; and the 'Confrontation' between Jekyll and Hyde, the song that's both a solo and a duet. I won't give away the trick, but Maroulis isn't doing the hair-tossing thing that Robert Cuccioli (and Sebastian Bach and Jack Wagner and David Hasselhoff) did in the original production. Calhoun came up with a good idea — which then went terribly, terribly wrong. It is, I think, the curse of Jekyll & Hyde. "

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364394_20692464,00.html