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How many of you are upset, yet once again, that Jekyll & Hyde, the musical, has been cancelled and will not tour Australia?
In 1995 Anthony Warlow was asked to be the lead in this musical and he put down a most wonderful CD of the songs from the show. He then succumbed to throat cancer and had to pull out, finally coming out in My Fair Lady where he didn’t have to sing much in 1996.
Jekyll & Hyde has been proposed to come to Australia now four times – the latest to open this December with Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Jemma Rix and Lucy Maunder and put on by Opera Australia. So now a minimum of 25 actors will be out work not including the theatre staff and orchestral people.
I had the privilege of seeing a production of this show in New York in 1997 – it was the most wonderful production I had ever seen and featured a young Canadian actor in the lead – he was spectacular in the role – but he didn’t have the class of Andrew Warhol as a singer. Pity.
But I am so disappointed that Australia once again will miss out on this most magnificent show especially at this latest hour.
What do other mums think?

Posted by mom101628, 15th July 2015

6 Comments

- - dannsbuild said
  - 07 Sep 2015
    2:08 am
Sounds like the bus trips to productions can always be lots of fun.
- mom101628 replied
  
  07 Sep 2015 , 10:17 pm
  It really was good fun and topped off by the fact you didn’t have to drive so could just relax, enjoy the show, and have a lovely drink on the way home.
- - mom101628 said
  - 19 Jul 2015
    8:45 pm
When I lived out of town, we always came in by bus to see a show – and the bus drivers dropped you off as close to home as they could when they returned. Loved having a champers on the bus on the way home, too.

- - Cynthea Jenke said
  - 17 Jul 2015
    9:36 pm
We are regional so alWays miss out
- mom93821 replied
  
  18 Jul 2015 , 5:09 am
  Bus trips to productions can always be lots of fun.
  - mom93821 replied
    
    19 Jul 2015 , 6:23 am
    
    And…a nice getaway for the girls too!