www.newcitystage.com: You know it’s about to happen. The music heaves and pounds, the green and red lights pop, and the actors lift their faces to give the audience that look. “Jekyll & Hyde” is a camp-romp-melodrama of a musical featuring a score packed with power ballads and soaring duets. It thrives on intensity, and if your performers are cut out for it, Frank Wildhorn’s “Jekyll & Hyde” can stun.
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I’ve never seen Jekyll and Hyde. I’ve only ever been able to listen to the recorded tracks. This is a dream show for me to work on. I would love to do a production of Jekyll and Hyde to the fullest extent possible. Hearing reviews of shows that seemingly failed upon their initial introduction but have great revivals and secondary avenues of production is a short case study of what’s bad where the investors are, isn’t bad everywhere. That’s not to say there aren’t talented people to portray the roles or hordes of money to throw at a production in places outside of New York, but that sometimes the audience just isn’t ready for what the production is or has to offer. The score of Jekyll and Hyde is incredibly difficult to sing, especially for the actor who portrays Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That fact alone makes this a seemingly impossible show to produce. The comments on the simplicity I fear are the reason that people would overlook productions of this musical. People want the spectacle, the stark contrast of the two characters portrayed by one actor, but isn’t life more gray than it is black and white? Why would we want two sides of the same coin to be so starkly different when there is a third side that contains both?
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