Jekyll & Hyde- Page 3

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 12:30pm

I got to see the mirror confrontation when it played Denver prior to Broadway and it was pretty cool! The scene got massive applause when it was over.

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 1:06pm

Hannah- the role of Lisa is sung by Bd'w favorite Carolee Carmello.

There is also an earlier demo/concept CD featuring Colm Wilkinson (Jekyll) and Linda Eder (available at selected stores). And there is a J&H Highlight CD by Robert Evan that was available via his fan club at http://www.rob-evan.com.

I'm waiting for Elmer Fudd to sing J&H next ...

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 1:10pm

PB ENT -- Carolee is amazing on that first production. I was referring to the concept album. If you notice on the concept album, "Someone Like You" seems to be a Lisa song, because the text is "Since Someone Like You . . . " instead of "IF Someone Like You . . ." I guess Linda didn't want to give up that song, so they slightly altered the lyrics. I used the concept album version for my wedding.

[rusmic]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 1:48pm

I saw this show on tour, pre-Broadway and it had all three leads the same as the original cast. Robert Cuccioli, Linda Eder and Christiane Noll. The show was close to the Complete studio cast recording but was missing a few songs in the version I saw. Bring on the Men was in it though, which was the first song Lucy sang in the show and it was fabulous. That was the song I left the show singing (I'd never heard of her or Frank until I went to see J&H) and I was disappointed when I heard that it was cut from the Broadway version. I do like Good and Evil but I think Bring on the Men fit better (and we didn't really need the concept explained to us by having a song about it).

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 1:58pm

Hannah - I think she says since because she and Jekyll just met and she fell for him rather quickly.

I think they changed it to if because, well, it was too quickly that she fell for him.

[ChiChi]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:13pm

I liked the Pre-Broadway tour. I didn't like what the show had become when it finally opened on broadway.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 5:25pm

The only version of JaH that I absolutely *love* is the complete recording, which is carried on the capable shoulders of the incredible Anthony Warlow. I don't much like the version with Robert Cuccioli (sp?) for many reasons... but I could write an essay on that, hehe.

I saw my first production of JaH, a college one, last March or so. I really liked it, but sometimes the songs get a little long. Like during "A New Life" you keep thinking "Stop singing and GET OUT OF THERE already!"

Edit: Whoops, it's the complete recording, not the concept. Concept has Colm Wilkinson.

Updated On: 7/27/05 at 05:25 PM

[adamgreer]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 5:27pm

I thought the show had a solid, pretty good score. I adore some of those songs.

The book, however, was a complete disaster. Parts of it were campy, and parts of it tried to be serious gothic thriller. Almost none of it worked.

The best evidence for an anti-Wildhorn bias that year was that they nominated the horrendous book of the show, but not the score.

It also had solid technical merits (particularly the set), and wonderful performances. Much as I liked James Naughton in Chicago, Cuccioli should have won the Tony. And Eder deserved a nomination.

Whenever Eder sings Bring on the Men in concert, she always says how angry she was that they dropped the song from the Broadway production in favor of Good and Evil.

That Hasselhoff production was a complete disaster...the show never felt *that* campy to me, until I saw him. He was just so awful, it's not even worth discussing.

And I'm probably the only one who disliked Coleen Sexton in the role of Lucy. I didn't like her voice AT ALL. Andrea Rivette is probably the only thing to recommend about that DVD.

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 7/28/05 at 3:36am

All i can say, is that if J&K was put on broadway as it appeared on the concept, with Anthony Warlow if he'd miraculously agreed to do it, it would have been a massive, massive hit.

Bob Cuccioli was not a good choice.

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 7/28/05 at 8:19am

Frank originally wrote 80 songs for Jekyll ( as you will find out when my interview is posted). There are about 30 songs on the Warlow Concept CD. There's no "affordable" way they would include them all. Making the show run close to 3 hrs. would be too costly.

Of course Warlow probably would have been a great choice to play J/H. But personally, I think Robert C. did well considering what he had to work with, as did Rob Evan, Chuck Wagner and Joseph Mahowald (Bd'w alternate).

IMO, Like Dracula, J&H are classic gothic- type horror stories. Neither staged shows were dark enough, scary enough. Campy doesn't work with these shows. Make it "shake in your boots scary" or make it a comedy. DOVT was even more campy and took it on the chin.

Both Dracula and J&H needed more character development and a clearer story line. ...just my view.

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 7/28/05 at 10:39am

I rather enjoy the music and score to Jekyll and Hyde, most of the songs also fit very well to my voice so theyre fun to sing.
I must say I do like the musical better then any other movie, or book, or episode of a show (like wishbone) based off of it, that i viewed when i was younger, i think it adds a greater eliment