Jekyll and Hyde
From: Monday, 28th March 2011
To: Saturday, 2 April 2011
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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:
Simon Cole - 28 March 2011
Perhaps not an obvious choice for musical theatre, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse’s interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde owes a lot to other ‘gothic horror’ musicals, such as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera and Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd that have come before. Indeed they seem to have borrowed heavily from these, and other hugely successful tragi-musicals, like Les Miserables and Oliver!, to come up with what should be a superb piece of theatre. Sadly, although it has many commendable elements, and should have everything going for it, Jekyll and Hyde suffers from a number of insurmountable flaws.
The story, of the misguided Dr Jekyll, who, having been thwarted in his plans to experiment on a living person, to identify, isolate and control the evil that exists in all human beings, subjects himself to his own scientific study and thereby unleashes his ev...
Cast
Marti Pellow (Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Hyde)
Sarah Earnshaw (Emma)
Sabrina Carter (Lucy)
Mark McGee (Utterson)
David Delve (Sir Danvers)
Jacob Chapman (Lord Savage)
Martin Dickinson (General Glossop)
Jon De Ville (Bishop of Basingstoke)
James Gant (Poole)
Amira Matthews (Lady Beaconfield/Nellie)
Daniel Robinson (Bisset)
Matt Stevens (Sir Archibald Proops)
Michael Taibi (Simon Stride)
Rob Copeland (Ensemble)
Grace Gardner (Ensemble)
Alexandra Grierson (Ensemble)
Carolyn Maitland (Ensemble)
Kerri Watt (Ensemble/Swing)
Creative
R L Stevenson (Book)
Frank Wildhorn (Music)
Leslie Bricusse (Lyrics)
Bill Kenwright (Producer)
Steve Cuden (Adaptation)
Frank Wildhorn (Adaptation)
Martin Connor (Director)
Bill Deamer (Choreographer)
Mark Bailey (Design)
Jonathan Lipman (Costume)
Nick Richings (Lighting)
Ben Harrison (Sound)
Tom de Keyser (Musical Director)
Kim Scharnberg (orchestration) (Music)
Jason Howland (arrangement) (Music)
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