Jekyll & Hyde musical revived at Union, opens 16 May

Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse’s Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde is being revived at the Union Theatre in Southwark, where it will run from 16 May to 16 June 2012.

The show, which ran for over 1500 performances on Broadway in the late 1990s, is being staged by production company Morphic Graffiti replete with a professional cast of 16 and a five-strong live band.

Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Victorian novella about a brilliant but troubled scientist, Jekyll and Hyde includes songs such as “Someone Like You,” “A New Life,” and “This Is The Moment”. It was recently seen on a UK tour produced by Bill Kenwright and starring Marti Pellow.

According to press material, the Union production “promises to uncover the grit and depravity of Stevenson’s vision. The results will be a thrilling and, at time, terrifying ordeal.”