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Director: Martin Connor Music: Tom de Keyser Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: Jekyll and Hyde is a story we all know but few have actually read. Created in a classic short novel The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 is familiar to us all probably due to the [...]

Book/Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Music: Frank Wildhorn Director: Martin Connor Reviewer: Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating:   Jekyll and Hyde a musical – whatever next!!!! Ex Wet Wet Wet lead singer, the very versatile Marti Pellow, has moved on a lot since his pop star days. Several years ago he branched out into musicals appearing in well-known and loved shows [...]

Music: Frank Wildhorn Book/Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Director: Martin Connor Reviewer: Sarah Lyth The Public Reviews Rating: The foundations of Gothic story always ultimately rest upon the timeless battle between good and evil and the true nature of human beings. The duality of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde is famous and intriguing, readers for the classic ‘strange case’ novel [...]

Music: Frank Wildhorn Book & Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Director: Martin Conner Choreographer: Bill Deamer Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: Difficult one this, half of me really liked it but the other half seemed agitated and angry, oh well I’ll put that down to whatever was in the press room interval drinks. First seen on Broadway in [...]

Music: Frank Wildhorn Book/Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Director: Martin Connor Reviewer: Poppy Helm The Public Reviews Rating: Although based on Robert Louis Stephenson’s 1886 novella, like most major stage versions, Jekyll & Hyde is a liberal adaptation of the original story. Inspired by his father’s illness, Dr Jekyll requests sanction to test a formula designed to save others from [...]

Music: Frank Wildhorn Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Director: Martin Connor Reviewer: Michelle Smith The Public Reviews Rating: You’re plunged into Jekyll &  Hyde with Henry Jekyll (Marti Pellow) desperately trying to convince the authorities to allow testing of his controversial experiments. Nearly condemned as a heretic, Jekyll is forced to test his findings on himself with disastrous results. After [...]

Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb Book: Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse Adaptor: David Thompson Director: Scott Faris Reviewer: Nick Hutchinson The Public Reviews Rating: I’m not someone who is particularly fond of many musicals, but having seen the movie adaptation of this starring Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta Jones and Renee Zellwegger, (and enjoyed it) I wanted to [...]