Jekyll and Hyde w/David Hasselhoff- Page 3

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 4:37pm

MEF, you might be mistaken, we were talking about Sharon Brown.

[SirLiir]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 4:38pm

Andrew, haven't we established you are *ahem* connected closely to Andrea Rivette *wink wink*

Edit: Andrea has a such a great and soothing voice. If there are people who wont cast her, lets have BWW picket them till she's hired. Updated On: 1/16/06 at 04:38 PM

[Adam Chris]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 5:52pm

"Jekyll and Hyde w/David Hasselhoff"
sucks

[MissMonika]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 8:27pm

wow, i had no idea that David Hasselhoff was in Jekyll and Hyde. um.....the whole thing scares me. Now i'm gonna have to go and watch it

Posted: 1/16/06 at 8:54pm

miss monika, be afraid, be very afraid...
and keep in mind that not everyone even likes tea..and thats why there is coffee...someone here will understand that!

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 8:57pm

amen to that.

Posted: 1/20/06 at 1:07am

PB Ent..You're a doll as always..thanks for your sweet comments! i will personally pass them along to andrea! =) who i understand has been feeling better, has a new agent and hopes to get some good auditions going soon. Elphaba in "Wicked" was the last one but nothing happened there...ya never know! i heard a clip of her and she sounds very healthy!

[zoran912]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 5:15pm

Someone told me yesterday that Andrea died of cancer nearly four years ago. I'm glad to hear that isn't the case.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:08pm

i saw Andrea in in 98 i believe in the miss saigon tour as Ellen and she blew me away... she was AMAZING! met her father also and he was extremely nice... said Andrea had never had voice training in her life when she got Miss Saigon... which surprised the hell out of me...

anyways... i showed the Jekyll and Hyde with David Hasselhoff to my friends... they were laughing... at one point my friend asked me... "is this a comedy" because David was HORRIBLE! anyways... i bought it only for the fact that i like the show and the women are amazing and i quite like the score!

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:18pm

Yes, it should be available at many shops. It is also available online. As for the bashing, I personally love the version of the story and the cast, IMO, is superb. Yes the acting and singing may be off at times, but the passion and understanding of the characters are there.

I'm pulling a Pontius Pilate on this one.

Posted: 2/7/06 at 7:29pm

Hasselhoff makes me puke!

Posted: 2/7/06 at 7:44pm

well, i am glad that no one thinks andrea rivette is DEAD..she is NOT..that was a prank some kid was playing and his dad caught him and the kid had to empty his savings account and donate it to a charity of andrea's choice as his punishment! this story is a FACT!
i am sorry that david irks some of you guy's so much. he is such a wonderful man and i truly like him so much. yes, i know him personally. he didn't have to hold a gun to anyone's head to LET him be in JH..he was welcomed with open arms and ASKED to join the show. he was CERTAINLY not the WORST person to play the role...i will not name names but there were WORSE...trust ME.

[nztheatreluva]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 9:15pm

Jekyll & Hyde with David Hasselhoff is the most hilarious thing I have ever seen.
I can't help but laugh during his 'Confrontation'.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 9:23pm

I liked "The Hoff's" magic mullet, as I like to call it. I found it amazing that with the quick flip of a mullet and lighting change he goes from Jekyll to Hyde and back..ohh the magic of theater. I also thought that his Transformation was the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life. I felt like I was watching some strage Jerry Springer episode.

Posted: 2/8/06 at 6:43pm

Andrew, I worked at Jekyll & Hyde and found Hass to be a very sweet and gracious man...but I can still say he was terrible in the role.

I don't think anyone here who's panned him is trying to say he's not a good person.

It's just that he didn't belong in the role, regardless of whether he asked or was asked, regardless of whether he was welcomed with open arms or spurned and spit upon by the rest of the cast.

He simply does not act or sing well, in a lot of folks' opinions. No one's calling him a heel.

Are we clear now?

Posted: 2/8/06 at 8:10pm

hey truth! i wonder if we know each other?! PM me...
anyway...i understand that people aren't saying that daivd is a bad person..cause he is far from that. i was just trying to ease comments a little bit...cause people don't KNOW him...its easier to be nasty..there have been some VERY mean things said. its one thing to say something negative about a peformance..but you have to admit ..some of the comments on other threads have been really, really mean. so like i said..i am just the kind of person that will always try to find the good in something or someone and i just had to say that i LOVE david as a person and i know for a fact that he worked so hard and brought an amazing energy and kindness to the theater every time he walked through the door. in MY heart, that counted for something. i can't expect an audience to have that perspective..but i am just letting them all in on another side of JUST the performance ON STAGE. of course there were better guys who did the part...but the cards fell as they were supposed to for whatever reasons..it was david who was there for the filming. it just worked out that way! i am happy to have any reminder of the show!!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:08pm

Be afraid - be very afraid

[musicalfandukie]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:54pm

the look on his face is priceless!! how did she keep a straight face??
Updated On: 2/8/06 at 09:54 PM

[adamgreer]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 10:18pm

Andrew, I certainly didn't see every single Jekyll/Hyde, but of the ones I did see (Cuccioli, Evan, Wagner, Bach, Hasselhoff, and some other understudy- Mastrone maybe?), he was by far the worst.

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 10:47pm

adam, I think you saw Frank Mastrone....not to be confused with Joe Mahowald, who was a wonderful J/H, the alternate J/H when Rob Evan took over the lead for the second time.

I called it the "Jekyll-Go-Round".... and also have my favorites and least favorites (and neither are Hasslehoff). Both Hasselhoff and Bach were both very professional to work with and geniunely nice people.

Lordy, am I actually admitting to being a "jekkie"? Well, I had many good reasons other than the show itself. J&H was the springboard for some amasingly talented, generous actors. It was some of the best times on Bd'w.

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:31pm

I remember the filming...I was working that night! They made a DVD out of THAT?? Oh, no. That was not a fine performance by any means. Hass sounded like he was completely out of his mind that night! I even remember somebody in our group commenting that he must be trying to show off for the cameras. I don't think I should watch this DVD. I just saw that still someone posted and I may very well have nightmares for a week!

And Andrew, I understand where you are coming from, really. It appears you're outnumbered here, but I too know how hard Hass has worked to be taken seriously. I saw that A & E Biography thing. I felt (and feel) genuinely sorry for the man. But he's like a train wreck. It's like listening to William Hung talk about how happy he was that people were buying his album and taking his music and his singing seriously. It's like it never crossed his mind that people were buying his CD just to laugh at him. (And since WHEN do you have to buy a CD just to laugh at someone??)

You can't keep Hasselhoff down, though--he's too glass-half-full. Mean comments on a message board probably wouldn't bother him much--he's heard worse--but I would like to remind those reading this (including myself) that just because you CAN say something doesn't mean you should. With rights come responsibility.

Whew.