I loved this show. No joke.
“ 'Did anyone laugh?' James Whale asks his gardener, Clayton Boone, in Bill Condon’s Gods and Monsters. Clayton had just caught Whale’s movie, The Bride of Frankenstein, on TV the night before. Covering, and afraid of insulting his employer, Clayton lies: 'No.' 'Pity,' replies Whale. 'People are so earnest nowadays.' Shocked, Clayton asks, 'Why? Was it supposed to be funny?' 'Of course!' cries Whale. 'I had to make it interesting for myself, you see. A comedy about death. The trick is not to ruin it for anyone who isn’t in on the joke.'
"Jekyll & Hyde, currently running at the Marquis Theatre, is in on the joke. It is a gleefully ham-fisted revival, complete with wonderfully literal sets—a pimp named Spider (David Benoit) has decorated his whorehouse like a web—while Jekyll’s (Constantine Maroulis) cursive scroll is superimposed behind the actors, gravely contemplating the “primitive duality of man” and the nature of evil, akin to the narrator’s contemplative lines in The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
My review of JEKYLL & HYDE