Licensing 1 entry
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In the literature25 passages
Jekyll & Hyde is listed as one of the longest-running shows, currently at number 37 in the Top Forty Greatest Hit Musicals from 1920 to 2008. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p23
Jekyll & Hyde is one of the longest-running shows, currently ranked at number 37 in the Top Forty Greatest Hit Musicals from 1920 to 2008. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-uni#p23
Frank Wildhorn was a pop songwriter with no theatrical experience. Leslie Bricusse was a com-poser/lyricist with vast experience and a handful of early-1960s hit show tunes (with a pop sound) like What Kind of Fool Am I? and Who Can I Turn To? They joined to write an adaptation of JEKYLL & HYDE, which premiered in 1990… book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p440
Yet the megamusicals that followed it to Broadway with comparable designs on the Gothic and melodramatic literature of the nineteenth century-many of them now Anglo-American ventures-proved less successful or even flops (Jekyll & Hyde, 1997; Jane Eyre, 2000; Dracula, The Musical, 2004-5). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p666
Svengali was one of a series of musicals by Frank Wildhorn that focused on nineteenth- and early twen- tieth-century novels and plays, many of which were dark in tone, including Jekyll & Hyde (Broadway, 1997), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Broadway, 1997), Dracula (Broadway, 2004), The Count of Monte Cristo (2009), and Cyrano… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p72
Jekyll & Hyde 1,543 performances Opened April 28, 1997 Closed January 7, 2001 book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p455
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