Jekyll & Hyde has had a LOT of productions...2 on Broadway. The original production ran for almost 4 years and starred Robert Cuccioli, Linda Eder and Christiane Noll (below).
It didn't make money, which seems hard to believe with such a long run, but its cultish fans are myriad and call themselves "Jekkies".
Music was by Frank Wildhorn (The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War, Dracula??), and lyrics by Leslie Bricesse (of Stop The World and Roar of the Greasepaint fame).
Above, the Broadway revival of 2013, starring Deborah Cox as the "cliche in a corset", to quote Charles Isherwood, and Constantine Maroulis (that's him waaaay at the top, uncomfortably attached to a chair).
Mr. Isherwood, in his NYTimes review, went on to say that, despite the smoke and mirrors "hokum" that pervades the show, he'd experienced "a happy goosepimple or two as Mr. Maroulis and Ms. Cox let loose during their impassioned solo songs."
On Sunday (7/11/21), we'll hear "Facade" which has (some say) a Carmina Burana feel, "No One Knows Who I Am", and "This Is The Moment."
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