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Article: BROADWAY-BOUND ``JEKYLL & HYDE'' OPENING HERE.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 3, 1996
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
BROADWAY WILL just have to wait. For the time being, ``Jekyll & Hyde'' - both sides of him - will be in Norfolk. The contemporary musical version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic opens at Chrysler Hall on Tuesday.
Besides being a rare pre-Broadway booking, it's the second Gothic-era thriller to roll into town, following ``The Phantom of the Opera's'' record-breaking, $6 million-plus run - a phenomenon that benefitted downtown restaurants, hotels and businesses.
Unlike ``Phantom's'' advance seal of approval, ``Jekyll and Hyde,'' an adventurous booking that won't reach Broadway until at least October, ...