Jekyll & Hyde — Page 9

This is the Moment, Someone Like You, Once Upon A Dream, In His Eyes, and A New Life all sound fantastic. A Dangerous Game sounds pretty... well... interesting, and Bring on the Men sounds awkward. The songs that were done well though sound awesome.

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Updated On: 9/21/12 at 06:07 PM

^ I wish she had sounded like that when I saw her.

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Saw it in La Mirada last Thursday!!! And going to catch it again in San Diego before it leaves CA! Loved it that much.

Are there a lot of set pieces outside of the panels with projections?

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The Concepts album is now #2 on Amazon's Hot New Releases. They must all be desperate!

Saw this on Saturday. What are they thinking?!?!?! Constantine is just awful, laughable at times and never convincing. Deborah Cox is hoarse (maybe a couple of days off would help her) but is a better actor than her co-star. The second act is very slow and the confrontation had us in hysterics (not in a good way). The material is just as weak and terrible as I remember. Wouldn't recommend this unless you are a fan of the show or someone involved.

^ While I don't agree about the material, I'm with you on Cox. Beautiful voice, soulful interpretation but she it seems like she already needs a vocal rest. I can't help but wonder if that's why "Girls of the Night" isn't included - too much for Cox to sing.

The pre-West End tour that never actually made it there (it was more of revisal than this tour, but a total disaster starring and produced by Paul Nicholas, possibly the worst Jekyll/Hyde ever), shifted the song to be much more ensemble themed, removing most of Lucy's parts to just listening/chiming in as an ensemble member. I'm also so surprised this song hasn't made it in the show again yet.

^ OH NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I would've sharted at that point in my seat.

Can't wait to see the tour. Songs I can't get enough of one the Concept CD: No one knows who I am, Someone Like You, In His Eyes, Dangerous Game (Deb sounds great here), Girls of the Night, A New Life.

I can see how the score would be draining on Cox's voice, and I don't mean this with any offense, but remember that she is a studio singer and didn't make her career belting out a difficult Broadway score to a very perceptive audience every night.

Either way, I love the CD, but I am also a huge Jekyll & Hyde Fan (Anthony Warlow forever)!!

Cool story bro. If I was a Broadway producer I'd wish all audience members were like you.

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^ "I remember the leading ladies doing pretty well but the whole night was pretty much a bust."

Shona Lindsay played Emma (or she may have actually been called Lisa in this tour - WHAT!). Paul Nicholas was a disaster, but the layout of the show was more of a total disaster. (cue "This is the Moment" as the lead up to the wedding song, Facade reprises galore, and a favorite random scene shift: "Dangerous Game" AFTER "A New Life")

Louise Dearman was undeniably the star, and the show (from what I know) made a West End star of her - she got a record deal shortly following the tour and has gone on to be very successful, the first actress to play Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked, another recording, etc. What a voice - I would revisit Wicked just to hear her every night.

She got all the big numbers in Jekyll to sing though (and could pull them off just as good as Linda), so I can't imagine with a score like that for a character she wouldn't have been!

^ Clearly someone never saw the mirror illusion. Enlighten him, guys.

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I admit that I think the show is just awful, but no matter what you may think of the rest of it, that climax, that ridiculous self-duet, is like a bad sketch from Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, or In Living Color. It's such inadvertent clumsy camp, it's difficult to conceive how anyone could ever take it seriously.

But then, one has to take a step back and realize that there are people who think plastic slipcovers and velvet paintings of cats are seriously attractive...