History Theatre / JekyllAndHyde

* TruckDriver'sGearChange: Multiple examples, and the key change often indicates the climax.

* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: Hyde, to Jekyll

** Not quite badass, but Jekyll pretty much sings an entire love song to himself in "This is the moment"

* TheElevenOClockNumber: "Confrontation".

* ConceptAlbum: The first and second releases of the soundtrack.

* ActingForTwo: In all of its incarnations, the same actor plays Jekyll and Hyde. Justified since Hyde is supposed to be a second personality. The role of Spider is also often doubled with another role, usually one of the Board of Governors actors.

* ActingForTwo: In all of its incarnations, the same actor plays Jekyll and Hyde. Justified since Hyde is supposed to be a second personality. This troper saw a production where the Bishop of Basingstoke and the Spider were played by the same actor.

* PedophilePriest: The Bishop of Basingstoke.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Dr Jekyll has a BlackBestFriend (in the Broadway original at least).

* HeyItsThatGuy: Sir Danvers in the Broadway DVD is [[TheGreatMouseDetective Basil of Baker Street]]. And then there's DavidHasselhoff ...

** Hyde then proceeds to beat the Bishop to death with his own cane and set the body aflame. Of course, [[AssholeVictim the Bishop was a pedophile]] and one of the few victims who had it coming. Jerk.

** One could HandWave that either a wealthy customer bought it for her, or that she saved up enough money to buy herself at least one nice item of clothing.

-->'''Hyde''': I have a thirst that I cannot deprive, never have I felt so alive! There is no battle I couldn't survive! Feeling like this... feeling alive!
--> "Hyde": Tonight, I'll plunder heaven blind, steal from all the gods! Tonight, I'll take from all mankind, conquer all the odds! I feel I'll live on forever! With Satan himself by my side!

* ActingForTwo: In all of its incarnations, the same actor plays Jekyll and Hyde. Justified since Hyde is supposed to be a second personality.

* AssholeVictim: The Bishop of Basingstoke turns out to be a pedophile; he's the first to die. The other board members are more obnoxious and snooty than anything else and certainly don't deserve to ''die'' for it.

** They didn't exactly transfer the prostitute-to-singer thing very well, as she has a boss that acts exactly like a pimp, and she acts as if she's obligated to have sex with customers, oh and the place she works at is a tavern (?) called the Red Rat in a particularly shady part of town.

* CounterpointDuet: Lucy and Emma about Jekyll in "In His Eyes", Jekyll vs. Hyde in "Confrontation" (Except the same actor plays both...).

** Ditto "Lost In The Darkness", a dark song managing to be darker -- the first time it's about Jekyll's father, the second it's about himself.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Hyde vs the Bishop.

* PettheDog: Alone among the "hypocrites", Savage seems to show concern for his fellows, making an attempt to rescue Bessie (half-hearted, but still) and expresses worry about Jekyll being next in line to be murdered when he attempts to flee to Scotland. If he only knew...

* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil

* ActingForTwo: In all of its incarnations, the same actor plays Jekyll and Hyde

** The music style and romantic triangle also had a noticeable resemblance to LesMiserables

* ShallowLoveInterest: Emma doesn't seem to have much to her character beyond "Jekyll's Fiancée". Even Lucy, who is given much more time and focus only seems to exist as "Girl who likes Jekyll".

The tumultuous history of the musical production bears some mentioning if only for the sheer amount of {{Cut Song}}s it generated. The first iteration of the show was played in Houston in 1990 and an album of that show was released featuring Colim Wilkinson and Linda Eder as the leads. It was popular enough that some of the songs became breakout hits ("This Is The Moment", for example, was played on the American broadcast of the 1992 Winter Olympics) and that people with more money than sense jumped on the show and [[ExecutiveMeddling pulled it in "14 different directions"]], eventually miring the production in legal tangles and a shaky attempt in a national tour. The writers decided to produce a new concept album in 1994 of the fully rewritten show which at least structurally resembled what would be the final form of the musical. It went through more rounds of cuts and rewrites before it finally premiered on Broadway in 1997. It ran for over 1500 shows, making it the longest running show at the Plymoth Theatre where it played, but still managed to lose money. It also had lackluster reviews but largely carried through on the backs of its extremely devoted fanbase, called "Jekkies".

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Dr Jekyll has a BlackBestFriend

The stage adaptation of ''TheStrangeCaseOfDoctorJekyllAndMrHyde'' written by Broadway veterans Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse.

-->'''Hyde''': Yes! I know ''exactly'' who... you... are. Eminent churchman and philanthropist, friend to those in need... especially of the female gender and years still tender. Who does not know Rupert, 14th Bishop of Basingstoke, our city's most degenerate, diseased, and corrupt hypocrite! [[ThisIsSparta Hypocrite! Hypocrite! Hypocrite!]]

* TwentyMinutesWithJerks: The hospital board meeting, the engagement party, the visit to the Red Rat...

* DrivenToSuicide: Originally Utterson was supposed to shoot Jekyll which would have made this ICannotSelfTerminate, but in the final version Utterson balks, forcing Jekyll to run himself onto Utterson's drawn swordstick. Also see...

* BadassBoast: Hyde's song "''Alive!''" in both it's ConceptAlbum and Broadway iterations.

* SparedbytheAdaptation: Sir Danvers Carew, the only character to be murdered in the original work, gets off scot free at the end. Unlike much of the supporting cast.

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