Jekyll and Hyde

Synopsis

An evocative tale of romance and the epic battle between good and evil. Jekyll and Hyde is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart.

Our Review:

22 March 2011

Who could imagine R L Stevenson’s sinister tale of a doctor with a split personality becoming a musical? Yet, re-written by Leslie Bricusse, with appropriate music by Frank Wildhorn, it touches your emotions from beginning to end. The heartbreaking narrative totally suits the genre.

 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are both played by none other than Marti Pellow, the  lead singer from Wet, Wet, Wet! With his brooding good looks he convinces us of the evil of Mr Hyde aided by tremendous acting ability and clear diction in speech and song. His Dr Jekyll is a pillar of society whose curiosity prompts him to find ways of separating good from evil. He is engaged to a respectable girl, Emma (Sarah Earnshaw), a pillar of society.

Pellow excels in the evil department. The original Mr Hyde is murderous, immoral and a rampant sexual predator but his Dr Hyde is a bit more tame, but nonetheless effective thanks to Pellow's charisma and velvety vocals.

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AFB - 26 June 2011:

I don't need a thesaurus here; the only word I'm looking for is 'poor'. Pellow's performance was abhorrent, and not in a good Hyde-ish way, in a plain bad singing a lame acting way. I almost laughed out loud when a group of middle aged women actually gave him a standing ovation following a feeble 'This is the Moment'. Clearly shallow 'Wet Wet Wet' fans who scarcely see the inside of a theatre. I've seen outstanding performances get less then that. The set was, to me, passable but a bit dull with the overuse of two slide on doorways like cardboard cutouts on a playset. The other performers did their best with downright pantomime direction (bar Pellow and one overcamp board member) but couldn't save the badly scripted, executed and composed (the tunes were as dead as Hyde's victims) show....

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