Jekyll & Hyde (Chicago) Tickets

This musical production was great! Good singing, good acting, fast moving with lots of set changes. Constantine Maroulis was masterful with his amazing vocals.Emmy Raver-Lampman did a very good job as Lucy as standin for Deborah Cox. The supporting cast was great. See it before it goes to Broadway or see it in NYC.

I loved this show so much! Constantine was amazing! He is gorgeous and he has a great voice! I hope he gets a Tony nomination! He can be my Thunder Buddy anytime! I am so happy that I get to see the final Chicago performance again this Sunday in the front row!

My first issue is Constantine Maroulis' ego issue...(he took some quite undeserved extra bows at curtain call!) Also, I'm not sure what kind of accent he was trying to channel but it was ineffective and he was often difficult to understand...mostly during his speaking parts but in his singing as well; his over-singing was also an issue. Next, I have to bring up the fact that although I enjoyed Deborah Cox moreover than Constantine, she and her role as Lucy are overstated and overbilled. This quandry is quite perplexing when in comparison to the role of Emma, played by Teal Wicks, Ms. Cox as Lucy finds her equal, NOT a subordinate character. The role of Emma is of like, if not slightly greater importance than the role of Lucy to the central storyline (or lack thereof, quite frankly) and Ms. Wicks voice is as spectacular, if not a bit better, than Deborah's. Needless to say, I understand fully why this play wasn't a blockbuster the first time around.

I have the utmost respect for theater actors and all the people behind a show. But I have to say, Jekyll and Hyde is the worst musical I have ever seen. Yes, the performers were capable singers, but some of the scenes were downright laughable. It felt like watching a Joey Trinbianni play in Friends! Also, you don't really relate to the characters, so you don't care what will happen to them in the end. You are just relieved that it's over.

Excellent! Constantine delivers an award-winning performance! The music was exceptional and the portrayal of the lead character was exquisite! This is a must see! Don't miss the opportunity to see this musical; you will not be disappointed.

This show kept you interested. The performers where great..especially Constantine. What talent! Great story!

The cast was great. The show itself...not so much. We had the understudy for Lucy and she was absolutely spectacular.

Thought Constantine Maroulis was average/bad. Seemed he was struggling with the acting, and compensated by overacting, which also affected his singing. Deborah Cox was really good, she almost makes this a must see by herself. Teal Wicks was also top notch. I almost feel bad for both of them that they are stuck in this show and have to try to compensate for Constantine. Agree with everyone else that the show was too consistantly dark, in that there was no change of pace anywhere within the whole show. Overall, decent show, although I am pretty sure that this isn't going to get good marks when it moves to New York. Also for reference I haven't seen Jekyll & Hyde in any other version before so I wasn't comparing it to anything.

On my weekend in Chicago, I saw three plays. This one was probably in the middle - not as overwhelming (in the best sense) as Book of Mormon, but dark, obsessive, character-driven, and absorbing. The voices of the three stars were incredible, but the enunciation could be improved, as I know I was not getting all the words, which are really essential to the plot - again unlike Book of Mormon, where I am certain I was getting all the words, but you didn't need to comprehend the words to understand the storyline. Would I attend again? Sure, to get more detail, but not four times, like Wicked. Congrats to the stars, and best of luck on Broadway - break a leg!

Jekyll & Hyde is one of my favorite musicals, so have watched it before with in different productions. My girlfriend loved it because it was her first time watching it. I, on the other hand, enjoyed it, but would not pay to watch it again. Constantine, while he may have a good voice, is not suited for this role, or at least his voice. Deborah Cox was phenomenal as always. I really disliked how "Confrontation" was staged. I understand keeping up with technology, but it was horrible (trying not to spoil it for those who haven't watched it). All in all, it was entertaining. I personally wouldn't watch it again, unless someone gave me a free ticket.

It was very good and my wife and I really enjoyed it!

While the voices and singing were good the songs were just not very memorable.

There were some cool things about the show - a lot of the silly lyrics and music motifs were changed for this revival, and I liked the new orchestrations as well. The lighting and sets were really cool and inventive, but like the rest of the show, it felt very overworked and heavy toward the end. I have never felt the ending of a show drag for so long! The first half of the show was great with the exception of the "Take Me As I Am" scene between Emma and Jekyll, which I felt was much too treacly both in its delivery but also unfortunately the song itself. Constantine Maroulis was quite enjoyable though I personally had trouble adjusting to the endings he places on the ends of his sentences as a result of his accent; his sharp breathing between the teeth prior to singing a phrase was also distracting but I thankfully stopped noticing it throughout the show. His redemption is the fact that he can blow the roof off any end note. Teal Hicks's song delivery was also very distracting in that she does not enunciate when she is not belting and also decreases her vocal volume after singing each word such that if I had not already known this show beforehand, I would not have had any idea what she was singing! I was very impressed with Deborah Cox, but what disappointed me ultimately about her is that she seemed to have been completely out of her element while singing "Someone Like You" and "In His Eyes". It was as if Lucy had no idea who she was or how to sing a song when she wasn't Lucy the Dancer at Spider and had something to hold onto and dance on, and that was quite disappointing! Thankfully (again), I felt she really redeemed herself in "A New World" so I left happy about Deborah Cox. Two final things: I understand why the Hyde portion of the "Confrontation" was video taped (I assume partly as a mechanism in which to save Maroulis's voice and not shred it each night), but to me, it came at a point when I was done seeing theatrics and just wanted to feel the internal struggle coming between these two personalities, and I thought it was way too over the top. The second and last thing is the pacing after "A New World" - as I mentioned, "Confrontation" came at a time when I was getting tired of the show, and at this point the pacing should get much faster. For some reason, I felt like I was being dragged by the show starting at the point when Hyde turns back into Jekyll, deals with the murdered Lucy, and then goes on and gets married, and then dies. This all happened so slowly! Jekyll died so slowly! In the current pacing, I was feeling "Ok, we get it, he's going to die, he's not going to make it as a living Jekyll", but if the death scene happened faster, I think I would have been in much more shock about the whole situation morally and left me a lot more emotionally attached to the ending.

My husband and I are huge fans of this show. We've seen it several times, all a different version of this much re-worked show. There were elements of this re-working that I enjoyed. But, this pales in comparison to the original score. Constantine struggles vocally. But, to be fair, this is an extremely hard role. To accommodate his voice, several songs are re-written into more of a rock song than a more typical musical theatre song. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. Several other songs have tempos changed as well and again, sometimes it works, sometimes not. But, if you haven't seen the show before with a much stronger Jekyll, I think you might enjoy it. It's still a powerful show with great music.

This is the best musical I've seen in a long time. Constantine's voice and acting was superb. The singing was the right amount and didn't feel like songs were in there to fill the time. A must see!!!

Great staging, excellent sets, magnificent voices! A+!

Excellent play. The re-working was great. A little too much "Alice Cooper Hyde" in the confrontation song but otherwise,great.

The singing talent was amazing, I don't have anything but good reviews for that, but that's about it. There was limited character development, I did not feel connected to the characters at all. The music was very loud and at times so loud you couldn't hear what the words actually were. Every song was so epic that when intermission happened it was hard to tell where the break was actually happening.

Two great singers; everyone else was "just there - no added benefit." Songs were not well-written.

Jekyll and Hyde has been completely redesigned from the 1997 version. While there are a few brilliant moments (Confrontation and bringing back "I Need To Know"), the overall performance was uneven, somewhat confusing, and very disappointing. Diction and articulation issues made it very difficult to understand the words they were saying often. Use of technology is interesting but dominant. The rewriting of the book as well as the music have left a story that is bereft of the emotional ties that make these characters sympathetic, likable, and connected. While Jekyll clinging to his father's limp arm in 1997 was melodramatic, Jekyll's dad hanging on a brick wall in 2013 is bizarre. In omitting "No one Knows Who I Am", Lucy loses her much of her sympathetic vulnerability and her will to make more of herself is lost to the audience. Emma's accent make her not so much upper crust British but more a snobby, cold you-know-what and, without much interaction with the characters of her father and Jekyll, I found myself wondering why anyone would want to come out of their laboratory and marry her. The melodies that have been rewritten largely need to be rewritten again. Why would anyone mess with "This is the Moment"?? The attempt to write a Rock of Ages version of Jekyll and Hyde is a flop as far as I am concerned. I was so excited that Jekyll and Hyde was being revived that I bought tickets to Chicago and New York before seeing the show. I hope that this show gets a MAJOR makeover before it hits Broadway because it will never survive on Broadway as it is. At this point, I almost want it to close. I want my money back more than I want to have to sit through this show again.