Jekyll & Hyde: Direct from Broadway (2001)

Original title

Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical

Directed by

Don Roy King

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 15m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmed stage production of the musical Jekyll & Hyde. It captures the live Broadway performance with the final cast, telling the story of a scientist who unleashes his dark alter ego.

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What happens

Jekyll & Hyde: Direct from Broadway is a 2001 television film of the Broadway production of the 1990 musical Jekyll & Hyde as captured live in performance on Broadway featuring the show's final Broadway cast. The show was captured at Broadway's Plymouth Theatre in New York City December 2000 utilizing multiple high-definition cameras by Broadway Worldwide. The film was released March 10, 2001, as a one-night-only event in seven digital cinemas in Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., with showings on cable and satellite pay-per-view channels in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. This marked the first time that a non-film had been distributed for digital cinema showing. The program was released on DVD and VHS September 11, 2001, by GoodTimes Video, with a DVD re-release November 14, 2006, by Image Entertainment. HBO bought the program in December 2002 for a two-year contract on the network. There was a professionally shot performance as a rehearsal for the official one used for the DVD. In the former it starred Rob Evan, an alternate and veteran with the production, in the title role. It is currently available on YouTube. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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