Jekyll & Hyde

[flutesinger2626]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 5:58pm

I recently bought the Jekyll & Hyde cast recording and I have fallen in love with all the music . I was wondering if a video or movie of Jekyll & Hyde has ever been released?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:16pm

A video was released with David Hassellhoff in the lead. he was far weaker than Robert Cuccioli. While I am glad they made it, the score suffers from Hasselhoff's weaker vocals & his sub par acting

[laura is broadway]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:24pm

http://www.amazon.com/Jekyll-Hyde-Musical-David-Hasselhoff/dp/B000I2J6YG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8791283-6094335?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1177453157&sr=1-1


i've also heard talk of making it into a feature film, don't know if this will follow through.

[flutesinger2626]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:24pm

Robert Cuccioli is the one on the Cast Recording, right?
I've never seen Jekyll and Hyde so it doesn't matter to me who is in the role as long as I get the chance to see it.
Can I buy this video at any video store?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:26pm

Try Deep Discount DVD

After watching it, do not say I did not warn you. Hassellhoff is deadly

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:32pm

I only knwo the show from the video which aired on tv twice here recently (I posted a thread). The two female leads are great and David at least seems to be trying but he is beyond hammy. I think the show is a mess with a small handful of lovely pop melodies (otherwise the score--and this is just my opinion, comes off like an inept wannabe ALWebber score, and not even one of his better ones) What really kills the piece tho' is the lack of motivation for the play--*why do Jekyll's uppity friends take him toa low class cabaret/whorehouse? *why* does Hyde kill Lucy when everyone else he kills are the upper hypocrits (and why do they even bother double casting them in "upper and lower" roles when you barely see their characters), *why* does his fiancee's father repeatedly TELL the audience he sees Hyde as a son but then in the actual show act like he finds him a looney his daugher should stay away from? etc etc etc

(the "duet with himself" song tho is prob the best campy thing I've seen in years especially the part, which any sane director woulda cut, where as Hyde, Hasselhoff says one line then turns to Jeckyll and says "no!" then back to Hyde, then back "no!" etc)

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:39pm

They cut out Bring On The Men from the double CD when it came to Broadway

It was one of the best songs in the score replaced by an inferior "Good & Evil".Hassellhoff tries but the material is too much for him. Some of his gestures remind me of Travolta in Saturday Night Fever

I just imagine this with the original leads or even Rob Evan

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:45pm

Good and Evil brings up another unintentionally campy moment. Hyde watches it and actually says to Lucy something like "I enjoyed your dance act--the lyrics have actually helped me a lot with something I've been thinking about". HA. *those* lyrics? jesus christ...

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[fossemoves]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:46pm

Better still I try to remember the Alley pre broadway production.

Now that was story telling. Too many cooks got in the kitchen when this transfered to Broadway.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/24/07 at 6:47pm

I doubt the critics would have liked it no matter which version made Broadway