"Any man can show any just cause why they may not be lawfully joined together, let him now speak, or forever hold his peace." Hyde: "Hold my beer." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a sad ending but I can't help but smile @ times. A dear friend went to see J&H on Broadway as she lives in NY. They had front row seats near where J/H falls dead. Her guide dog got up & went to him no matter how hard she pulled her back. The audience thought it adorable as did the actor (I forget who) that played J/H. She passed away some yrs ago after losing a battle w/cancer. We were close b4 @ after I got my guide from the same school. It's been my hope to visit & attend J/H on BW 4 her.
Ten years late so apologies in advance but A. His name is David Hasselhoff and B. That is the cutest and saddest story I've heard today. I can imagine that she was the best doggo mom. May she rest in peace. 💔
I’m always 11th row orchestra, center and the pyrotechnics were a STRUGGLE for this “little show that could”; but man 😮 those first 3 previews I saw were worthy of complaint, if I’d have had to pay, I’d definitely have complained 😅 But this is by far the worst cast to have done a DVD release with. I saw every male actor to take on the titular role, but IMO, the original cast is unmatched… I have a few full length bootlegs of this show on my channel from previews, as well as the full final leg of the pre broadway tour (footage from 1990 - 95). Finally, I uploaded the test recording for the team in charge of filming this for distribution. The matinees were always performed by a swing when a “celebrity” was in the role, So this here ⬆️ was filmed during the night performance, while the test recording was recorded during the matinee, and so ROB EVANS is in the titular role, and in HD (like the DVD, obviously lol 😝), and so we get a good look at what COULD have been. The rest of the test recording cast remains the same for both the matinee & nightshiws. Lastly, I have the official B-roll footage plus a collection of tv performances (and commercials), come check it out!❤
Okay, okay, OKAY! I know he was one of the worst Jekyll/Hydes ever according to most people but...there IS one part of his performance that tears me up. That scared little "E-Emma??" at 4:14. Sounds like a terrified, helpless little child. As he's dying. Gah.
His delivery of “Oh god will me somehow to fight I pray” was delivered well, yelling with desperation, pain and practically begging for things to go right for once .
Yes I figured out those notes by figuring them out in my head. I don’t have perfect pitch but I have a good sense of pitch. But yes it does give me chills and has of course a very melancholy mood to it
At 2:29 Sir Danvers should NOT have called him Dr. Jekyll. It's very inconsistent with the rest of the play and how everyone else reacts to Hyde. He or someone else should have said something along the lines of "Good God, what is that thing?" Hyde is supposed to look completely different from Jekyll, thus no one knows they are one and the same. We as the audience suspend disbelief and give this show the benefit of the doubt, provided the actor can play 2 completely different characters effectively and look as different as he can. But in no universe would anyone SCOLD Dr. Jekyll as if he were simply misbehaving AFTER he turns into a different creature AND kills a man. I love this show but it does have its weaknesses and inconsistencies.
StrongRex I partially agree. I feel calling him Dr. Jekyll is inconsistent because Danvers and Emma both referred to him as Henry, but I guess with Emma exclaiming "Henry!" over and over in this scene, it would have been overkill. There are also a few instances where Utterson refers to him as Dr. Jekyll, which bothers me because it's inconsistent with his relationship to him. But in this scene, Danvers is still unaware that Jekyll is Hyde. He has never seen Jekyll transform, therefore he has no reason to believe that Hyde is a "thing." Danvers just believes Jekyll is being crazy, because that's who sees, Dr. Jekyll.
from 4:12 on, I had to stop the video like five times before finish it because I didn't want to cry but every time I tried to watch it again I had tears in my eyes over again, this is so saaad :'( Bravo, excellent play .
This scene had me freaking out the first time I watched it. Is Hyde going to show up? No? Happiness at last? No! It's he! Oh Lord, NO! ....the tragedy.....the tragedy....
From experience, it's really hard not to breath when you are "dead". I had to do it in a show and I just had a stage fight and your adrenaline is still going. Granted, i was wearing a corset so breathing was hard anyway
I saw Jekyll and Hyde performed by the Governor's School for the arts and I must say it was the best version of the musical I've seen. The singing was PHENOMENAL whoever played Jekyll/Hyde was amazingly talented and could be compared to David Hasslehoff's Jekyll.
I don't understand that much ado about his "ow"s. He feels short attacks of pain, what else should he do? That's what people say, when they are hurt. Yeah, he might have just yell in agony, but i think it's not that kind of pain.
Our school did this is the city theatre and it’s my favourite one we’ve done, playing Jekyll and Hyde was the best thing I ever did. During confrontation I had to run backwards down the stage steps and along a path and when I was Hyde I would face the front row members in the eyes whilst yelling my lines. The lights changed colour depending on who I was (light green and white for Jekyll, red for Hyde) and if you here the song you can see just how quick the lights had to be in some parts Best thing I’ve ever done
I would of let it pass if it was a hollywood film but this was real broadway!!! who was smoking what to make this decision and for the filmed version of all things??
This was 12 years ago but, I had to pause multiple times because I personally super disliked the acting. Like he barely sang either. I honestly prefer Warlow as Jekyll and Hyde, Hoff is. Hoff.
I really feel that he is a great visual and he had some good moments in his performance as Jekyll, but there was really something lacking as Hyde. At this point, Hyde should have been like a wild animal, out of control and unstoppable to some extent and I didn't feel that. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the desperation that should be there as Jekyll pleads for this not to happen during the wedding as well.
Dale Martin I think it's mostly because of the wedding scene as a whole. In the pre-Broadway productions, there was an extended wedding reception scene, where Hyde shows up after Jekyll and Emma are already married. Hyde is wild and rampantly kills everyone in sight. The stakes are much higher, particularly when Emma is taken hostage. You can see this version of the finale in the 1995 National Tour (starring the OBC) and in the 2013 revival. The 2013 revival is not nearly as good, though.
Was the entire play leading up to this point mostly about Dr. Jekyll walking through a town whilst townspeople and animals constantly try to kill him? Asking for a friend
@committeesq German? He's popular in Spain, Japan, Holland, Germany, Britain, etc... the list goes on. But with regards to his albums, they sell like crazy all over Europe as well as Germany & Holland; plus, he speaks Dutch & German so he can actually sing the songs in the countries' native language. I've been trying to find a song he did called San Pedro's Children but I can't find it anywhere. It's beautiful but I lost it in a hard drive crash & crash of my backup drive. :( It's beautiful.
@Ezawr who says hes not he is perfect I wish I were emma. don't critizize someone u don't know. leave it alone and him if u don't like it if you don't like it don't watch it.......
@Jokerkatgurly Are you actually defending David Hasselhoff? Because this is one of the worst examples of acting I have ever seen. Hasselhoff is utterly terrible.
it depends on the production but if you go off the plot of the original book, 'confrontation' in the musical is the moment dr jekyll realises he will forever be stuck as hyde, and then this scene would take place after the last line of the book which is "I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end" (basically knowing he will forever be stuck as hyde, jekyll concludes hyde will either be hanged for his crimes or kill himself) 😊
I dont know about you guys but whenever I see a black person in a theater production that is set in the early 1900s or even earlier (Les Mis) it takes me out of the immersion because black people simply wouldnt have had prominent roles in society back then. Obviously I'm not a racist, but you wouldn't find this sort of casting in a film so why the theater? Please feel free to reply I would like to know what others' opinions are on the matter.
Well it depends on what part of the world you are talking about as well. Racial oppression in England was very different than racial oppression in the US and how that translates into social station varied. A good movie to look at is Belle, where you can see the complexity of being high class in England while not being considered equal socially. I don't know a lot about England, but In Les Mis, for example, the role Javert has been played by a black man and that makes complete sense because black men were allowed into the French army and they were allowed to become officers. So its not historically inaccurate at all.
Jekyll: I didn't hit her!
Hyde: Oh hi Mark
Gold 🤣
😂😂
"Any man can show any just cause why they may not be lawfully joined together, let him now speak, or forever hold his peace."
Hyde: "Hold my beer."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jessica Zeller Basically how it went down.
Jekyll: *Becomes Hyde* Ah, C'mon man...
Hyde: SURPRISE!!! :D
Jekyll: Why.... Couldn't you have come tomorrow...-_-
It's a sad ending but I can't help but smile @ times. A dear friend went to see J&H on Broadway as she lives in NY. They had front row seats near where J/H falls dead. Her guide dog got up & went to him no matter how hard she pulled her back. The audience thought it adorable as did the actor (I forget who) that played J/H. She passed away some yrs ago after losing a battle w/cancer. We were close b4 @ after I got my guide from the same school. It's been my hope to visit & attend J/H on BW 4 her.
Ten years late so apologies in advance but A. His name is David Hasselhoff and B. That is the cutest and saddest story I've heard today. I can imagine that she was the best doggo mom. May she rest in peace. 💔
I’m always 11th row orchestra, center and the pyrotechnics were a STRUGGLE for this “little show that could”; but man 😮 those first 3 previews I saw were worthy of complaint, if I’d have had to pay, I’d definitely have complained 😅
But this is by far the worst cast to have done a DVD release with. I saw every male actor to take on the titular role, but IMO, the original cast is unmatched… I have a few full length bootlegs of this show on my channel from previews, as well as the full final leg of the pre broadway tour (footage from 1990 - 95).
Finally, I uploaded the test recording for the team in charge of filming this for distribution. The matinees were always performed by a swing when a “celebrity” was in the role, So this here ⬆️ was filmed during the night performance, while the test recording was recorded during the matinee, and so ROB EVANS is in the titular role, and in HD (like the DVD, obviously lol 😝), and so we get a good look at what COULD have been. The rest of the test recording cast remains the same for both the matinee & nightshiws.
Lastly, I have the official B-roll footage plus a collection of tv performances (and commercials), come check it out!❤
Okay, okay, OKAY! I know he was one of the worst Jekyll/Hydes ever according to most people but...there IS one part of his performance that tears me up. That scared little "E-Emma??" at 4:14. Sounds like a terrified, helpless little child. As he's dying. Gah.
@Paulette Cinotti i can agree, although this jekyll isn't too bad in my opinon
His delivery of “Oh god will me somehow to fight I pray” was delivered well, yelling with desperation, pain and practically begging for things to go right for once .
I hate his "Set me free, set us all free" If it was me, I'd be almost crying doing it as I feel that Jekyll is so desperate to end it all
bates motel where Dylan kills norman is almost similar
The way he says ow between each word kills me
Nerdy NotGirly My reaction to stubbing my toe.
Indeed.
He plays a better Hyde than a Jekyll. I feel so bad for this cast. They're all so wonderful...and then hoff comes in.
"ow, feel it fill me. ow."
Thanks, David. That was a very good lesson in how NOT to act.
MeiLee B Basically me when trying to convince my mom to let me stay home.
Anthony did better...just in the recording room.
Clearly, he didn't get hurt enough as a child to know what pain feels like lol
@@thesecretnightguard-ice8660 ikr
@@ShmurplesArePurple Yeah...probably a 14 years old person could do better lol
Anthony warlow did better just in the recording studio.
I think he killed it. A great performance.
that end music gives me chills every time! Its truly a beautiful tragedy.
Yes I figured out those notes by figuring them out in my head. I don’t have perfect pitch but I have a good sense of pitch. But yes it does give me chills and has of course a very melancholy mood to it
Rob Evans had the best performance but Anthony warlow did... Wow! You all should listen to his concept album of this play it's amazing if you haven't
Probably the Hoff's best performance in the show. I'm not the biggest fan of his altogether performance, but this he does REALLY well!
I love this transformation, it's very well done. I like how Emma is able to find the Jekyll and Hyde.
Pause at 3:06 for hilarity
At 2:29 Sir Danvers should NOT have called him Dr. Jekyll. It's very inconsistent with the rest of the play and how everyone else reacts to Hyde. He or someone else should have said something along the lines of "Good God, what is that thing?"
Hyde is supposed to look completely different from Jekyll, thus no one knows they are one and the same. We as the audience suspend disbelief and give this show the benefit of the doubt, provided the actor can play 2 completely different characters effectively and look as different as he can.
But in no universe would anyone SCOLD Dr. Jekyll as if he were simply misbehaving AFTER he turns into a different creature AND kills a man. I love this show but it does have its weaknesses and inconsistencies.
StrongRex I partially agree. I feel calling him Dr. Jekyll is inconsistent because Danvers and Emma both referred to him as Henry, but I guess with Emma exclaiming "Henry!" over and over in this scene, it would have been overkill. There are also a few instances where Utterson refers to him as Dr. Jekyll, which bothers me because it's inconsistent with his relationship to him.
But in this scene, Danvers is still unaware that Jekyll is Hyde. He has never seen Jekyll transform, therefore he has no reason to believe that Hyde is a "thing." Danvers just believes Jekyll is being crazy, because that's who sees, Dr. Jekyll.
He could look different but they are in the same body so i think its fine.
@@saquescuya Yeah, this is just a body of Jekyll, whatever it is, it was Jekyll thus you shall think it's still Jekyll, because what else xD
@@seventesprit3000 Exactly
from 4:12 on, I had to stop the video like five times before finish it because I didn't want to cry but every time I tried to watch it again I had tears in my eyes over again, this is so saaad :'( Bravo, excellent play .
Emma's SO pretty!!!! Goodness, this was epic. Never thought I'd say that about Hoff. What has the world come too?!?!?
if you think this is good, you should really watch anthony warlow's.
it's amazing.
This scene had me freaking out the first time I watched it. Is Hyde going to show up? No? Happiness at last? No! It's he! Oh Lord, NO! ....the tragedy.....the tragedy....
From experience, it's really hard not to breath when you are "dead". I had to do it in a show and I just had a stage fight and your adrenaline is still going. Granted, i was wearing a corset so breathing was hard anyway
1:29 his jackets unbuttoned... 1:30 buttoned again.
MAGIIC
Andrea Rivette's voice blows me away. She's so incredible in this role. Sings like an angel,
I love this transformation, it's very well done. I like how Emma is able to find the Jekyll and Hyde.
3:06 = hilarity
Second best transformation I love how he tries to stop it with all his will
I like rob evans... but I think david hasselhoff did okay for a non stage actor
Watch his version of Transformation where he looks like he shits himself and get back to me.
Talk about David.
I think he was amazeing
I saw Jekyll and Hyde performed by the Governor's School for the arts and I must say it was the best version of the musical I've seen. The singing was PHENOMENAL whoever played Jekyll/Hyde was amazingly talented and could be compared to David Hasslehoff's Jekyll.
1:50 perfect music
Happily ever after?
Sorry guys were not in Disney...
i feel as though if Heath Ledger could sing, he would've been fucking incredible as hyde! agree?
from 2:27 : HOLY FUCKING SHIIIT!!! they we're going to be happy!!!! :((((((
I don't understand that much ado about his "ow"s. He feels short attacks of pain, what else should he do? That's what people say, when they are hurt. Yeah, he might have just yell in agony, but i think it's not that kind of pain.
Our school did this is the city theatre and it’s my favourite one we’ve done, playing Jekyll and Hyde was the best thing I ever did. During confrontation I had to run backwards down the stage steps and along a path and when I was Hyde I would face the front row members in the eyes whilst yelling my lines. The lights changed colour depending on who I was (light green and white for Jekyll, red for Hyde) and if you here the song you can see just how quick the lights had to be in some parts
Best thing I’ve ever done
I would of let it pass if it was a hollywood film but this was real broadway!!! who was smoking what to make this decision and for the filmed version of all things??
This was 12 years ago but, I had to pause multiple times because I personally super disliked the acting. Like he barely sang either. I honestly prefer Warlow as Jekyll and Hyde, Hoff is. Hoff.
Hyde: *Cutely snaps neck*
that's' depressing alright
thanks so much for posting ;)
The show was Insane, Constantine made is Award winning! His acting is Al Pacino level. He was born for live theater! TEN THUMBS UP!!!!!!
Am I the only one who think this version of finale is awkward as hell?
Nope
The Hoff is terrible at playing dead!
I really feel that he is a great visual and he had some good moments in his performance as Jekyll, but there was really something lacking as Hyde. At this point, Hyde should have been like a wild animal, out of control and unstoppable to some extent and I didn't feel that. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the desperation that should be there as Jekyll pleads for this not to happen during the wedding as well.
Dale Martin I think it's mostly because of the wedding scene as a whole. In the pre-Broadway productions, there was an extended wedding reception scene, where Hyde shows up after Jekyll and Emma are already married. Hyde is wild and rampantly kills everyone in sight. The stakes are much higher, particularly when Emma is taken hostage. You can see this version of the finale in the 1995 National Tour (starring the OBC) and in the 2013 revival. The 2013 revival is not nearly as good, though.
I cried...oh my god... I hate tragedies XD
a good performance... this final scene always nearly makes me cry...
I think I just choked on my drink at 3:06. Oh good lord. I didn't know what to expect until I paused it.
his acting in the final parts of this scene SORT OF makes up for his bad singing throughout....
this is kinda like the way norman died at the end of bates motel
I actually really loved his jekyll and hyde,he looks like a gentleman!!i prefer the songs of the og album,but I watched the DVD like 10 times
Was the entire play leading up to this point mostly about Dr. Jekyll walking through a town whilst townspeople and animals constantly try to kill him? Asking for a friend
I love this show
david is exelent not ridiculous hes expetional in this whole musical david you won my heart with this movie and now you shall forever have it.......
ugh y'all have got to be kidding He chews the scenery so badly, this is terrible
Hasselhoff....I love this musical, but he makes me crack up with the exception of the transformation part.
@randomprincess919 Not really, just taking shallow breaths and not moving helps
I know, you can tell he's breathing.
Love the opening song!
Honest to god 1:59 sounds legally close to the beginning of duel of the fates
go between 1:28 and 1:30 and tell me something thats weird about it.
The rest of the cast is wonderful in my opinion. I just think Anthony would play a better Jekyll/Hyde
When emma comes in i kinda wanna sing.. "HOW DYA SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIAAA?"
1:23 - 1:30
Look at David Hasselhoff's tux jacket!
I thought this was pretty good. So this is David Hasselhoff? He isn't bad. However, I prefer Rob Evan.
@meangirl714 well you know he's gotta breathe to be alive mate
@EYDstudios i couldnt agree more with 3:06, i laugh at it every time XD
reminds me of the finale of bates motel
Krystal Harwood yub
@committeesq German? He's popular in Spain, Japan, Holland, Germany, Britain, etc... the list goes on. But with regards to his albums, they sell like crazy all over Europe as well as Germany & Holland; plus, he speaks Dutch & German so he can actually sing the songs in the countries' native language. I've been trying to find a song he did called San Pedro's Children but I can't find it anywhere. It's beautiful but I lost it in a hard drive crash & crash of my backup drive. :( It's beautiful.
@SparksYukiSparks
Don't listen to them, you're right. As a professional performer myself, I am inclined to agree with you.
HOT TACO TREE
Did they replace the gun? Why?
Where's the Hoff's cheeseburger? His wig should have it's own credit!
Well that's depressing
Don't hassle the Hoff. lol
I Agree
when did he pull out the ponytail?
i dont think so. ebay or amazon it.
DA HOFF!
really is this baywatch david?
Same Hoff from Baywatch.
wow, poorly done stab.....you can see a small bit of the tip in his hand when he turns his back
@Ezawr who says hes not he is perfect I wish I were emma. don't critizize someone u don't know. leave it alone and him if u don't like it if you don't like it don't watch it.......
That was messed up.
@Wolfbane8 I never noticed that XD
Our school production was better
philliphamilton2 why am I laughing right now?!!😂
@Wolfbane8 The continuity is really bad. I love this show though.
@kathyj253 i think that too
You continue fighting; i have no opnion, as I agree with most of you satements.
@Jokerkatgurly Are you actually defending David Hasselhoff? Because this is one of the worst examples of acting I have ever seen. Hasselhoff is utterly terrible.
This is fucking terrible. BUT SO DAMN FUNNY!!!
i thought he killed himself in confrontation... 😑
it depends on the production but if you go off the plot of the original book, 'confrontation' in the musical is the moment dr jekyll realises he will forever be stuck as hyde, and then this scene would take place after the last line of the book which is "I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end" (basically knowing he will forever be stuck as hyde, jekyll concludes hyde will either be hanged for his crimes or kill himself) 😊
Poke it first
hoff is good, but not the best
I dont know about you guys but whenever I see a black person in a theater production that is set in the early 1900s or even earlier (Les Mis) it takes me out of the immersion because black people simply wouldnt have had prominent roles in society back then. Obviously I'm not a racist, but you wouldn't find this sort of casting in a film so why the theater?
Please feel free to reply I would like to know what others' opinions are on the matter.
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Well it depends on what part of the world you are talking about as well. Racial oppression in England was very different than racial oppression in the US and how that translates into social station varied. A good movie to look at is Belle, where you can see the complexity of being high class in England while not being considered equal socially.
I don't know a lot about England, but In Les Mis, for example, the role Javert has been played by a black man and that makes complete sense because black men were allowed into the French army and they were allowed to become officers. So its not historically inaccurate at all.
oh you won't like Hamilton then
Lewis Russell how do you feel about norm lewis as javert