Jekyll & Hyde

Conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden & Frank Wildhorn | Book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse | Music by Frank Wildhorn | Orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg | Arrangements by Jason Howland | German by Susanne Dengler and Eberhard Storz | Adapted for Musikalische Komödie Leipzig by Cusch Jung | Original Broadway Production by PACE Theatrical Group, Inc.

Duration: 2 3/4 hours | 1 intermission | ages 14 and up

The musical is based on the successful novel "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886) by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, one of the most famous versions of the doppelganger motif in world literature. Many comic, film and literary characters in which people with two faces take center stage are inspired by Stevenson's novel. There are almost thirty film adaptations of the material alone. No wonder that the musical has also discovered the story in which the kind-hearted doctor Jekyll turns into the evil Hyde. It tells the horror story of a split personality with fatal consequences.

The scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll is firmly convinced that he has invented a means of separating evil from good in people. However, the hospital board forbids the experiment on a patient. Henry Jekyll is ridiculed by society, with only his fiancée Lisa Carew and his friend and lawyer John Utterson standing by him. Finally, Jekyll decides to experiment on himself with an open outcome. He transforms himself into the dark figure Edward Hyde, who from then on roams the streets of London killing. Jekyll tries to stop the madness, but Hyde, who is playing his dangerous games with the prostitute Lucy, fights back. Lisa is worried about her fiancé and tries to bring him to his senses, while he becomes increasingly fatal for the dreamy Lucy. A race for life and death begins.

In 1990, a new star was born at the Alley Theatre Houston (Texas): Frank Wildhorn's debut work "Jekyll & Hyde" premiered. Since the German-language premiere in Dietrich Hilsdorf's production at the Musical Theater Bremen, the play has also been an absolute hit on the German musical market.