I understand that a happy ending is completely impossible in this situation but...agh. That doesn't change that fact that I wanted it to work out, somehow.
When I listened to this for the first time (after putting it off for a week because I knew it couldn't end well), I nearly cried. Not even kidding. Rob Evan did such a good job on the recording, and the voice acting was on point. I didn't even need to *watch* the musical - I knew exactly what was going on. When music alone can make you feel actual, physical pain, you know it's good.
It would even be more weird if she didn't find out until years later and they had kids. "Dear.....children....I'm a murderer." *Room goes silent except a crashing of a plate that the wife dropped from shock* little kid: "....Does this mean we don't have to go to school today?"
I listened to the CD of Rob doing Jekyll & Hyde on Spotify yesterday. Before I even watched this performance. And oh my lord. His singing was so on point I was feeling his pain while listening to it. Rob is so good. If only we could get a DVD release of this with Rob in the lead instead of David in HD quality. I would totally buy that.
I really love the melody in the hymn they use at the start of the scene. (Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, for those that don't know.) Was a good choice for the character of Jekyll.
Thank you for the upload! Think it would've been more impactful, and made more sense, for Jekyll to kill himself at the end of Confrontation, but I get that they wanted a last scene with all the principal cast (barring Lucy, of course.)
no I suspected that he would die. but I did not suspect that he would kill himself at their wedding or even keep the wedding on. I just was expressing my shock of this. He was intelligent enough to know that Hyde would still take over him. how did he expect his wife to deal with him turning into a murderer every so often? I think the end could have been better thought out and logical.
+Angel Simpson Well I think that once Jekyll killed himself, he also killed Hyde despite of him saying such stuff about him taking over Jekyll when he dies, therefore makes him a hypocrite.
Hyde is taking about Jekyll dying in the confrontation scene is actually taking about jekylls soul dying and Hydes soul taking over in jekylls body. Jekylls body is merely the vessel for Hyde to use in this musical, "you'll die in me I'll be you" is his way of saying that in the musical. Hyde was taking about killing jekylls soul in the confrontation scene while jekyll in the confrontation scene is taking about physical death kind of a foreshadow of his knowledge that only with his physical death would he and the world be free of Hyde.
Whatever else you can say about Jekyll and Hyde (and I'll admit, it's not one of my favorites; I think it might have worked so much better if it had stuck to the novel and not piled on so many songs for the character played by the composer's wife, who doesn't exist in the book), I do think the musical version actually works very well as a metaphor for drug addiction and the way addicts (who often happen to be highly intelligent people) think that no matter how low their habit takes them, they can still conquer it on their own. Some drug addicts are indeed able to clean up, and some aren't so lucky. Rob Evan, the Jekyll you see in this video, has spoken of the show in those very terms himself. He was asked in an interview once whether it was harder playing Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde, and he said that he actually felt that there was a third character: Jekyll "with the knowledge of Hyde", a good and intelligent man battling the demons inside him and grappling with his addiction to the drugs of his own creation, and that this third character was by far the most complex.
All that said, I've never felt entirely satisfied with either version of this ending. I don't much like the Warlow version, either, in which Jekyll convinces Utterson to shoot him rather than throwing himself on Utterson's sword, since swords are harder to capture on a sound recording than pistols. I always felt that it was anti-climactic after Confrontation and that it leaves a very bad taste in your mouth as you depart the theatre. Someone commented on one of the other videos of this scene that they could, in fact, end it at the Confrontation with Jekyll/Hyde killing himself at the end; I'd like to see them try this in the next revival, when and if that ever happens.
So I’m guessing everyone’s here from the movie version on here so what happens between the end of that and this scene? It kinda cut a scene out I think. It ended on Lucy being carried out after the confrontation
Interesting ending. I kind of thought he would die though I thought Hyde would take over when he died and have someone kill Hyde. But whatever it was still a pretty good ending to a pretty good musical.
@@megasauruss The 1st one is what would actually happen i don’t think it’s something vaguely metaphorical. I think its just Hyde wanting to take over Jekyll’s good side.
This was years ago, but if anyone was wondering, Aria went to be with Jesus in 2004. Her family took it well, and her death only strengthened their faith.
I kept seeing people talking about how good Evans’s performance was compared to Hasselhoff but tbh in this particular scene I think Hasselhoff did better. Evans’s interpretation of the scene seemed a bit too jerky and quiet for my taste
The sword was so that jekyll could leap onto the sword, committing suicide. You can't really do that with a gun. They changed Emma's name from Lisa to differentiate her from Lucy
More accurate to the times. In the Victorian era and beforehand, it was customary for both the groom and Best Man, in this case Mr. Utterson, to carry a sword to protect the bride from danger during a wedding, mostly someone trying to steal her away from the marriage. Also, it’s more dramatic for Jekyll to impale himself on a sword. As for the name change, Lisa is phonetically too close to Lucy, which confuses people. It sure did me when I first learned about the musical. Emma was also a popular name in the Victorian era, unlike Lisa.
The sword in question is a sword stick/sword cane. It was a cane, yes, but when you grasped onto the actual cane part and pulled up on the handle, a thin blade would come out of the stick. I personally enjoy Utterson having a sword stick better because in the book, Hyde/Jekyll committed suicide (using poison) at the end, and that’s kinda what he did.
@@jackmoody5174 and both Wagners. She started on tour with Chuck Wagner, and then transferred to Broadway just as Rob Evan left and Jack Wagner came in.
One thing I've never understood is why does John draw his weapon? Like the situation has been diffused, it's time to either let it go or call the cops. Not the time to reescalate things.
+Angel Simpson What ending were you expecting, Jekyll and Hyde separate and they fight as Jekyll uses the power of friendship to destroy Hyde and what happens next is that Jekyll and Emma go off into the rainbow filled sunset with unicorns and butterflies?!?!?!?
