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Jekyll & Hyde

Jekyll & Hyde

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Jekyll & Hyde is a 1990 musical based on the 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally conceived for the stage by Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden, it features music by Frank Wildhorn, a book by Leslie Bricusse and lyrics by all of them.

Opened
1997
Performances
1,543
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Frank WildhornLyrics: Leslie Bricusse

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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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