2008 Woodie Awards
Classic Tale-Turned-Musical Mesmerizes Audiences
Two-faced play illustrates talented actors and great plot.
Summer Rogers
Issue date: 10/17/07 Section: Entertainment
The constant struggle of good versus evil, intertwined with love, sex, hypocrisy and even murder, take place in the musical, "Jekyll and Hyde."
The play, which was phenomenally performed by the talented cast at Fullerton's Plummer Auditorium on Friday, is based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson "Jekyll & Hyde." This is the story about Dr. Henry Jekyll, who when in desperate need to help his ill father, becomes the subject of his own experiment and transforms into his innermost darkest self, Edward Hyde.
Starring Broadway's own T. Eric Hart as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hart makes the intense transformation from kind, loving, respectful Dr. Jekyll, to a dark, heartless and uncontrollable Hyde, in a very powerful manner.
With the support of no one but his best friend and lawyer John Utterson (Richard Kinsey), he manages to get a hold of the many chemicals he needs to feed his experiment-turned-addiction. Hart's portrayal of both personalities was mind blowing. His performance of "Confrontation," looked as if it was difficult to achieve, yet he managed to deliver one of the most memorable scenes of the musical.
The song was a mixture of both personalities trying to take over; Jekyll was desperately trying to get rid of Hyde, while alter ego Hyde would do everything he could to stay.
There was more to Dr. Jekyll then just his lab work. Emma Carew (Victoria Strong) is his fiancée and is deeply in love with him, but slowly begins to see the strange and unusual behaviors of the doctor.
The audience is first introduced to Emma at their engagement party, where Jekyll arrives late. With Emma's soft and gentle voice, she performs numerous musical numbers where she expresses her emotions in numbers such as, "Once Upon a Dream" and "Letting Go."
Little does Emma know that there is another woman, in Jekyll's life, Lucy Harris (Kelli
Provart). Lucy is one of the "Girls of the Night" that makes her money at The Red Rat.
The play, which was phenomenally performed by the talented cast at Fullerton's Plummer Auditorium on Friday, is based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson "Jekyll & Hyde." This is the story about Dr. Henry Jekyll, who when in desperate need to help his ill father, becomes the subject of his own experiment and transforms into his innermost darkest self, Edward Hyde.
Starring Broadway's own T. Eric Hart as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hart makes the intense transformation from kind, loving, respectful Dr. Jekyll, to a dark, heartless and uncontrollable Hyde, in a very powerful manner.
With the support of no one but his best friend and lawyer John Utterson (Richard Kinsey), he manages to get a hold of the many chemicals he needs to feed his experiment-turned-addiction. Hart's portrayal of both personalities was mind blowing. His performance of "Confrontation," looked as if it was difficult to achieve, yet he managed to deliver one of the most memorable scenes of the musical.
The song was a mixture of both personalities trying to take over; Jekyll was desperately trying to get rid of Hyde, while alter ego Hyde would do everything he could to stay.
There was more to Dr. Jekyll then just his lab work. Emma Carew (Victoria Strong) is his fiancée and is deeply in love with him, but slowly begins to see the strange and unusual behaviors of the doctor.
The audience is first introduced to Emma at their engagement party, where Jekyll arrives late. With Emma's soft and gentle voice, she performs numerous musical numbers where she expresses her emotions in numbers such as, "Once Upon a Dream" and "Letting Go."
Little does Emma know that there is another woman, in Jekyll's life, Lucy Harris (Kelli
Provart). Lucy is one of the "Girls of the Night" that makes her money at The Red Rat.
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