VICTORIANS ON BROADWAY – Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (University of Virginia Press – ISBN: 978-0-8139-4432-6) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What […]
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Jekyll & Hyde at The Old Vic – exclusive new images
Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan offers a gallery of brand new images to mark this week’s official opening at The Old Vic of Drew McOnie’s new dance thriller Jekyll & Hyde. The show, which has been devised, directed and choreographed by McOnie, will play a very limited run until Saturday (28 May). Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic […]
Album release for McOnie’s Jekyll & Hyde show score
An album featuring the score for Drew McOnie’s new dance thriller Jekyll & Hyde has been released to coincide with the show’s hotly anticipated debut at The Old Vic. Currently previewing ahead of the show’s opening night on Wednesday (25 May) the show which has been devised, directed and choreographed by McOnie will play […]
Jekyll & Hyde – Cockpit Theatre
Jekyll & Hyde continues at the Cockpit Theatre, London until 6 February. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The Cockpit in Marylebone plays host to a musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, from Birmingham’s Blue Orange Theatre, which despite a sumptuous setting and alluring premise, falls fatally short of its promises. Adapting or retelling […]
Jazz Age re-imagining of Jekyll & Hyde set for Cockpit Theatre
The Blue Orange Theatre’s Jazz Age re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde will open at London’s Cockpit Theatre in January. Written by Eric Gracey, Jekyll & Hyde will run from 13 January 2016 until February 6 at the venue in Marylebone, North London. The new production, which […]
