Inverness Opera Company proudly presents one of their most ambitious and exciting Musicals to date – Jekyll & Hyde!

Jekyll & Hyde has music by Frank Wildhorn, and book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. It was originally conceived for the stage by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The musical is based on the novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Leslie Bricusse is a writer-composer-lyricist who has written more than forty musical shows and films. Over the years he has had the good fortune to enjoy fruitful collaborations with a wonderful array of musical talents, including Anthony Newley, Henry Mancini, John Williams, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Jule Styne, Quincy Jones, Andre Previn, Frank Wildhorn and Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky (who’s “Nutcracker Suite” he adapted into a song score). His stage musicals include Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, Pickwick, Harvey, and Sherlock Holmes. He has written songs and/or screenplays for such films as Superman, Santa Claus – The Movie, Home Alone (I & II), Hook, Tom & Jerry – The Movie, and various Pink Panthers. Projects that have been seen on both stage and screen include Doctor Dolittle, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Scrooge, Goodbye Mr. Chips, and Victor/Victoria. He has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, nine Grammys and four Tonys, and has won two Oscars, a Grammy and eight Ivor Novello Awards, the premiere British Music Award. In 1989 he received the Kennedy Award for consistent excellence in British song writing, and was inducted into the American Songwriters’ Hall of Fame – only the fourth Englishman to be so honoured.

Frank Wildhorn is a composer, lyricist and producer with works spanning the worlds of popular, theatrical and classical music. In 1999 he became the first American composer in over twenty years with three shows (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War) running simultaneously on Broadway. He also contributed to the Broadway score of Victor/Victoria, and is developing musicals such as Camille Claudel, Dracula, Cyrano de Bergerac, Bonnie & Clyde, Svengali, Havana and a recording project titled “The Romantics.” His work can be heard on the albums of Linda Eder, who originated the role of Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde. His compositions also include Whitney Houston’s international number one hit, “Where Do Broken Hearts Go?” Frank is the Creative Director of Atlantic Theatre, a division of Atlantic Records.

Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, 13-16 March 2013.

Source: Inverness Opera Company