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| rdfs:label | - Jekyll and Hyde (theatre)
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| rdfs:comment | - The stage adaptation of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Broadway veterans Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse. The tumultuous history of the musical production bears some mentioning if only for the sheer amount of Cut Songs it generated. The first iteration of the show was played in Houston in 1990 and an album of that show was released featuring Colim Wilkinson and Linda Eder as the leads. It was popular enough that some of the songs became breakout hits ("This Is The Moment", for example, was played on the American broadcast of the 1992 Winter Olympics) and that people with more money than sense jumped on the show and pulled it in "14 different directions", eventually miring the production in legal tangles and a shaky attempt in a national tour. The writers decid
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| abstract | - The stage adaptation of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Broadway veterans Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse. The tumultuous history of the musical production bears some mentioning if only for the sheer amount of Cut Songs it generated. The first iteration of the show was played in Houston in 1990 and an album of that show was released featuring Colim Wilkinson and Linda Eder as the leads. It was popular enough that some of the songs became breakout hits ("This Is The Moment", for example, was played on the American broadcast of the 1992 Winter Olympics) and that people with more money than sense jumped on the show and pulled it in "14 different directions", eventually miring the production in legal tangles and a shaky attempt in a national tour. The writers decided to produce a new concept album in 1994 of the fully rewritten show which at least structurally resembled what would be the final form of the musical. It went through more rounds of cuts and rewrites before it finally premiered on Broadway in 1997. It ran for over 1500 shows, making it the longest running show at the Plymoth Theatre where it played, but still managed to lose money. It also had lackluster reviews but largely carried through on the backs of its extremely devoted fanbase, called "Jekkies".
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