Jekyll & Hyde: Direct from Broadway
2001 • 135 minutes
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About this movie
Jekyll & Hyde: Direct from Broadway is a 2001 television film of the Broadway production of the 1990 musical Jekyll & Hyde as captured live in performance on Broadway featuring the show's final Broadway cast. The show was captured at Broadway's Plymouth Theatre in New York City December 2000 utilizing multiple high-definition cameras by Broadway Worldwide.
The film was released March 10, 2001, as a one-night-only event in seven digital cinemas in Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., with showings on cable and satellite pay-per-view channels in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. This marked the first time that a non-film had been distributed for digital cinema showing. The program was released on DVD and VHS September 11, 2001, by GoodTimes Video, with a DVD re-release November 14, 2006, by Image Entertainment. HBO bought the program in December 2002 for a two-year contract on the network.
There was a professionally shot performance as a rehearsal for the official one used for the DVD. In the former it starred Rob Evan, an alternate and veteran with the production, in the title role. It is currently available on YouTube.
The film was released March 10, 2001, as a one-night-only event in seven digital cinemas in Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C., with showings on cable and satellite pay-per-view channels in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. This marked the first time that a non-film had been distributed for digital cinema showing. The program was released on DVD and VHS September 11, 2001, by GoodTimes Video, with a DVD re-release November 14, 2006, by Image Entertainment. HBO bought the program in December 2002 for a two-year contract on the network.
There was a professionally shot performance as a rehearsal for the official one used for the DVD. In the former it starred Rob Evan, an alternate and veteran with the production, in the title role. It is currently available on YouTube.