#ik that the 95 tour was CONSTANTLY making changes to the show so i imagine that sometime during its run they switched to the both-parts-liv

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huh, i just made an interesting connection in my brain that, frankly, i should have made a while ago.

so we all know the dozens of ways productions stage "Confrontation", right? it turns out that one of the main appeals of this song in many productions—having the lead rapidly switch characters to duet himself—didn't actually come about until basically the Broadway version!

i think it's safe to assume that most fans of this show know that the 1995 tour pre-recorded the Hyde lines and projected an image of Hyde over a mirror, but i only recently learned how the 1990 Alley Theatre production staged the song. instead of pre-recording Hyde or having Chuck Wagner perform both parts live, they had Dave Clemmons (standby Jekyll/Hyde) perform the Hyde part!

i'm actually really fascinated by this staging! i wish we had more video of this production so that we could see how "Confrontation" looked onstage, but having a whole second person onstage as Hyde opens up a lot of interesting new doors staging-wise

#seph speaks #jekyll and hyde #jekyll and hyde musical #chuck wagner #dave clemmons #admittedly this staging risks a lot by making Hyde a 'stranger' to the audience in the climax of the show #but i haven't seen many (if any!) other productions try this style for confrontation so i find it intriguing! #maybe i just like when i find versions that do something other than gratuitous hair-flips sklgjsdlk #but i do find it fascinating that the thing that becomes the big draw/'showstopper' in most productions (the lead dueting himself live)— #—isn't actually a part of the show until YEARS down the road #side note: do we actually have a solid date for when that change was made? #ik that the 95 tour was CONSTANTLY making changes to the show so i imagine that sometime during its run they switched to the both-parts-liv #*live #but to my knowledge we don't actually know when exactly that switch happened