Jekyll & Hyde: Direct from Broadway

Jekyll & Hyde: Direct from Broadway

DVD Cover Art
Based on Jekyll & Hyde
by Leslie Bricusse
Frank Wildhorn
Directed by Don Roy King
Starring David Hasselhoff
Coleen Sexton
Andrea Rivette
George Merritt
Barrie Ingham
Theme music composer Frank Wildhorn
Leslie Bricusse
Steve Cuden
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Running time 135 minutes
Distributor Broadway Worldwide
Release
Original release
  • March 10, 2001 (2001-03-10)

Jekyll & Hyde: Direct from Broadway is a 2001 television film of the Broadway production of the 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 DC with showings on cable and satellite pay-per-view channels in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.[1] This marked the first time that a non-film had been distributed for digital cinema showing.[2] The program was released on DVD and VHS September 11, 2001 by Good Times Video, with a DVD re-release November 14, 2006 by Image Entertainment.[3] HBO bought the program in December 2002 for a two-year contract on the network.[4]

There was an professionally shot performance as a rehearsal for the official one used for the DVD. In the former it starred Rob Evan, an understudy and veteran with the production, in the title role. It is currently available on Youtube.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Playbill Online. "BTN Airs Wildhorn-Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde on PPV, March 10". playbill.com. Retrieved 16 January 2001.
  2. ↑ "Jekyll & Hyde the Musical: Broadway Video". jekyll-hyde.com. Retrieved 2006. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. ↑ "Jekyll & Hyde the Musical: Broadway Video". jekyll-hyde.com. Retrieved 2006. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. ↑ "HBO To Offer Jekyll & Hyde, Smokey Joe's Cafe & Putting It Together". playbill.com. Retrieved 2 December 2002.
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