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A brillant show
Although Hasselhoff has nothing on Anthony Warlow, Jekyll and Hyde is a real masterpiece. True its music does mimic many previous well know stage musicals but it is still brillant in every sense of the word. Songs like Someone Like You and In His Eyes stand alone as examples of why this musical should not be judge so harshly. Just because it came out after other successes doesn't mean it is attempting to copy them and even if it is it is merely because those shows were hits and who wouldn't want their 'baby' to be a succeed in a pretty harsh business. Clearly it was a big enough success to be on broadway, produced as this dvd and turned into a feature film (coming 2009). So to anyone who hasn't seen the show and wants to see it then WATCH THIS DVD! And the same goes for fans. Until 2009 when the feature film comes out this is a terrific substitute, even if Hasselhoff isn't the greatest Jekyll ever on stage(like I have implied- he did have some tough acts to follow). <
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>Before I finish up let me just add that aside from all this the leading ladies are fabulous in this particular production and worth having a good look and listen to.

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Not a huge David fan
I am a huge fan of musicals, and Jeckyll and Hyde has been my favorite for years! It was one of the first shows I saw on stage and I immediately fell in love with it. I was disappointed in David Hasselhoff's performance. I love the music from Jeckyll and Hyde. Some of the songs were simply meant for big, strong voices. Sadly, David's voice is neither big nor strong. I still recommend the DVD because there is really no other choice and it is worth watching, despite Hasselhoff. However, if you are not familiar with Jeckyll and Hyde already PLEASE listen to the original cast recording of the show!

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Hasselhoff notwithstanding, it's fun to see the real theater production again
I'm a Jekkie, yet not a complete wacko about this show (though my wife still rolls her eyes). I'm going to target this for others who have seen the show, aren't ashamed to admit they like it, get a bit tired of the over-analysis from the prigs (including about Frank Wildhorn's work), yet somehow haven't been able to bring themselves to buy the DVD because of all the sour reviews of Hasselhoff's work. <
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>If anyone buys its BECAUSE of Hasselhoff, OK, you're open to second-guessing and maybe you really think you'll rich for life if you answer the email asking for help to get $3.4 billion out of (fill in blank with name of impoverished nation). <
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>But giving it a shot is perfectly rational -- especially six years later, after everyone pretty much has conceded he's the major weakness of the DVD version. <
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>I watched this again last night for a second time after seeing Hasselhoff's new book in B&N, picking it up and reading the two or three pages about J&H, but not buying it. (Sorry, David.) <
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>I have all the CD versions, including the latest one with Rob Evan and Kate Schindle that sounds more like a flashback to the concept and road versions. Saw the actual show four times, in order: New York (Cuccioli, Linda Eder, Christiane Noll), road (Chuck Wagner, Sharon Brown, Andrea Rivette), New York (Jack Wagner, Coleen Sexton, Rivette), road (C. Wagner, Brown, Kelli O'Hara before her breakthrough). Most fascinating thing about that was, as many have noted, that the evolution and paring of the productions left the Broadway and road shows different. <
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>I enjoyed the DVD version more the second time, because I was being realistic about Hasselhoff. Seems to me the problem with a DVD like this is we're willing to forgive some things in the theater because it proves we're seeing it "real" with no retakes, but DVD rubs our noses in the imperfections. (Cast albums remove warts, too; was Cuccioli as good in the theater as he sounds on the CD? Sure, I remember it that way, but maybe that's affected by hearing the CD over and over. My impression is even Jack Wagner was much better in the role than Hasselhoff, but maybe I wouldn't feel that way if I was seeing HIM on the DVD as the TV star attraction. <
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>Most important: This is the real Broadway show with a darned good cast, including the second-tier folks who as far as I know stayed with it all the way through -- such as Barrie Ingham and George Merritt. Rivette is fine as Emma. Sexton, listed as being only 20 in the Playbill when I saw her, is excellent as Lucy and the fact that she was much younger than Eder makes their perfomances intriguingly different. (I see she's at last check a standby in Wicked tour.) And if you look close, you can even see Kelli O'Hara in the ensemble -- she's credited at the end of the DVD, otherwise I wouldn't have known to go back and spot her this time. <
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>OK, now Hasselhoff...No, he is not even close to being as good as Cuccioli, and I assume many of the "alternates" who played the matinees, including Evan, would have been better on here. (I thought Chuck Wagner was just OK.) Hasselhoff's voice isn't "bad"; but it's a warble in the wrong places. He doesn't have an anthem voice. He NEEDS that head mike; I'm not sure Cuccioli always did. <
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>But, darn it, he's not as bad as some of the reviews here make him sound. (Or maybe not as bad as I thought when I first saw this several years ago.) Plus, this role is hard, real hard, and I give him and Jack Wagner credit for having the nerve to take it on. Maybe if so many of us hadn't seen others play this "better," we wouldn't be as critical. <
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>Final point: Perhaps without Hasselhoff doing this, the DVD and cable show - made with what seem to be fairly ambitious and expensive production values -- never would have been made. This isn't some guy sitting in the balcony with a camera and then selling the DVD on Canal Street. I'm assuming they needed a "name" to sell this aspect of the project and, sadly, maybe it's sold a lot more copies than it would have otherwise. Maybe Sebastian Bach or Jack Wagner would have been "enough"; maybe not. <
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>So for all those reasons, I'm now more of a conditional defender of Hasselhoff and especially this DVD than I was when I first bought and watched it. I would have preferred they do whatever they had to do to get Cuccioli back in it for three months or something (Hasselhoff said in the book that he played only 72 performances), or gone with one of the "unsung" guys who are better, but if this was the approach they were going to have to take to get the whole cast and production on the pay-per-view and DVD, I'm OK with that. If you've NEVER seen any production of J&H, you probably won't be as horrified as many of the Jekkies. That's faint praise or no praise at all, I know. Hasselhoff is NOT good. But he is NOT that bad. Heck, if you must, when you get to his songs, put on Wilkinson or Cuccioli or Evan from one of the CDs. Sexton and the rest of the cast are worth seeing, and the production values on this are excellent.