Jekyll & HYDE: Jekkies Thread

[philly03]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:04pm

With all these different and unnecessary "love threads," figured us surviving Jekkies needed one too!

And on the 11th anniversary of it's Broadway opening what better way!


Hopefully I'm not the sole Jekyll & Hyde fan left!

April 28, 1997 - January 7, 2001

[philly03]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:05pm

Start off with a question. Rate your favourite "major" Lucy's!:

Linda Eder (Alley Production, Pre-Broadway Tour, Broadway)
Luba Mason (Broadway)
Sharon Brown (2nd National Touring Company, during the Broadway run)
Coleen Sexton (Broadway)
Annie Berthiaume (Third National Touring Company)
Kate Shindle (Broadway, Ressurection)
Updated On: 4/28/08 at 09:05 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:11pm

Linda Eder

You are not the sole Jekkie left

[philly03]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:15pm

My favourites:
Linda Eder
Coleen Sexton
Luba Mason
Sharon Brown
Annie Berthiaume
Kate Shindle

But Kate's only at the end because I didn't see her, nor did I enjoy all of the 'new' orchestrations. They're all great!

[puppetman2]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:36pm

Colleen Sexton

It was an excellent show on tour with Chuch Wagner in the lead. The conductor told some of us at intermission that it was different from the Broadway version.

[Drjkyll]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 2:24pm

Nope, you are most definitely not the only Jekkie left. There are quite a few tried and true fans hanging around.

If you get a chance, check out my Wildhorn Museum photos on my Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/drjkyll1

We are also starting to post the pics at the Someone Like Frank website: http://www.freewebs.com/frankwildhorn/ - there are only a few posted there so far, the rest will be going up over the next few weeks.

Cheers!!

Michael Edwards

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 2:31pm

Jekkies Unite!!!

Long live the Dangerous Game!!!

Linda
Colleen
Kate

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 2:53pm

I'm something of an original Jekkie, since I saw the original three pre-Broadway incarnations as well as the original Broadway cast. And I can say with some authority that the anniversary of the opening of the Broadway production is by no means a date which should be celebrated. It was a dark day in Broadway history when that hideously misguided production was allowed to open. Honestly, that was NOT Jekyll and Hyde.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 3:07pm

I was also a pre-Broadway Jekkie like Mister Matt. Although I never saw any of the pre-Broadway tours (they never came near my hometown) I was a fan of the show.

We sang "Once Upon a Dream" in my high school choir circa 1994, and I thought the show looked really cool. I was just getting into shows at time and thought the idea of a "Gothic Musical Thriller" was awesome. I bought both the Colm Wilkinson and the Anthony Warlow concerpt recordings and have the pre-Broadway tour vocal selections book -- the one with the original and IMHO better logo on it.

I only saw the show twice on Broadway - both times with Cuccioli. Even though I didn't like the changes made to it, I still enjoyed it both times.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 3:31pm

Like CHESS, this show is GREAT. It could be AMAZING with tweeks and upgrades and changes... like back to someof the things they "changed" for the Broadway opening

[philly03]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 3:43pm

I know the date shouldn't really be celebrated...but this is a BROADWAY board! And besides without it being on Broadway it'd just be like PHANTOM...where only POTO fans, Yeston/Kopit fans, and musical junkies would know about!

I was not in agreement with all the changes, but like someone said above me, the show was still great and I personally liked the orchestrations better than the some of the 80s sounding ones.

[jackson992]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 3:52pm

The concept album with Anthony Warlow is definitely the definitive version.

I also love Yeston's Phantom.

Don't understand where the hate comes from for these two shows.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 5:00pm

The orchestrations were the only improvement to the Broadway production. The other changes were pretty much travesties by comparison. God, I'll never forget those spandex devil boys during Good and Evil, the vacation slides of various London locales, or that umbrella dance. Ugh! And what they did to Lucy's death. I don't even want to think about it.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 5:22pm

Matt, I don't understand one of your original statements, "And I can say with some authority that the anniversary of the opening of the Broadway production is by no means a date which should be celebrated." Was the show different on that date? Was that the first time you saw the Broadway production?

The two things that stand out in that show for me were, the "Murder Murder" umbrella number (ghastly) and upon hearing that she's a target, Lucy more or less says, "wait, let me sing my 11:00 number first and then I'll leave". Well we know what happened to her!!

[philly03]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 6:44pm

NO ONE will EVER forget that horrid Murder, Murder choreography. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! Bouncing up and down...and umbrellas?

What about the set? A lot of people hated it, especially Jekyll's lab because it was "too overdone," but I never thought about it that way.

And the new direction(s) weren't all terrible, just a majority. Perhaps the slightest and more effective of the changes were having people walk back and forth at the end of Someone Like You, which I thought was the perfect feel. But, unfortunately, Robin Phillips was so ignorant towards Linda's talent and it seems like he was just like "she can't act, lets just have her sing and run off." By no means was Linda a wonderful actress, but give her some credit. Well, except the death scene. Sometimes that was a little comical. But moving on!