The P3 Theatre Company returns with a one-night only concert rendition of ‘Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical‘ deserving a much longer run in Long Beach, CA.
Last evening, the Los Altos United Methodist Church in Long Beach, CA, showcased a stunning concert performance of ‘Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical‘. This splendid adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale featured an ensemble cast the embodied a concert choir.
Having reviewed musicals since March, this was my first experience attending a concert version, and it was pleasantly pleasing. The atmosphere felt like being part of a final rehearsal before the costuming took place prior to opening night, allowing for an intimate connection with the performers and their craft.
E.L. Losada delivered a masterful performance in the dual role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde, embodying the intense struggle between good and evil with remarkable depth. His portrayal of Jekyll’s passionate, romantic nature contrasted brilliantly with Hyde’s terrifying madness, leaving the audience in awe.
Deborah Robin shone as Lucy Harris, bringing an enchanting presence to the stage, wishing well to the lady of the night, while Kristen Tucker and Emma Carew offered stunning performances, each adding their unique flair to the story. Their combined talent highlighted the complex emotions woven throughout this evocative tale.
A special commendation goes to Jon Peterson, who not only graced the stage as John Utterson but also skillfully directed the concert version of ‘Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical‘. His classically trained theatrical stylings brought a polished edge to the production, making it a truly unforgettable experience.
The cast also included Chris Showerman as Sir Danvers Carew, further enriching the ensemble’s dynamic performances.
Behind the scenes, the production team worked tirelessly, with Christy Mauro-Cohen serving as Assistant Director and Betsy Paull-Rick as Production Coordinator/Company Manager and Choreographer, ensuring the performance ran seamlessly.
This concert performance of ‘Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical‘ was a remarkable celebration of talent and artistry, leaving the audience eagerly anticipating the next opportunity to witness such a compelling production. Luckily, for those individuals, they do not have to wait too long as the P3 Theatre Company will showcase ‘A SoCal Christmas Carol‘ premiering December 21 and 22, 2024.
Tickets for ‘A SoCal Christmas Carol‘ can be purchased at https://p3theatre.biz/a-socal-christmas-carol/.
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Summary
Minus a couple of audio hiccups, the P3 Theatre Company’s concert rendition of ‘Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical‘ deserves a far longer run than a one-night only affair.
I figured that it is about high time for me to tell you all this true story here onto how I gotten so inspired to “Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical” and how it became my very first favorite inspiration to me after all of these 10 years for me for this musical itself holds a very special place into my heart a lot after 10 years.
When I was 11 years old on August or September 2014 while I was on YouTube and while I was a Millikan Middle School student in my second year in middle school of in junior high school, I first found and watched an MLP animatic music video of “Doctor Pinkie And Miss Pie” by Ink Potts (Assassin-or-Shadow) and from the creators known as the dynamic twin sisters – Annabelle Potts – The Illustrator and Victoria Potts – The Film Editor and with the song that they both did – “Confrontation” (Released on February 2, 2014) from the 1994/1995 musical album version itself sung by Anthony Warlow with Pinkie Pie as Doctor Henry Jekyll And Pinkamena as Mister Edward Hyde from the song itself and each of them have alongside with the others as my favorite songs – “Alive” – Pinkamena’s act (Released on January 25, 2014) and “This Is The Moment” – Pinkie Pie’s act (Released on January 3, 2014) and I gotten myself so hyped up about all of the songs that I somehow gotten into my own types of storyboard artwork to do all on my own myself and for it was also the very first start of my art working journey that started it all for me within musicals as well that watched just to learned it and to understand it all from each and every different countries onto where they all come from within languages I learn to speak them all from and understand.
As for first timers just for me to draw ponies in storyboards on papers to each of them and onto myself as an alicorn pony and as in my own OC cartoon character to draw for music videos to film edit and for comics as well was like sloppy and messy, But it took my a while and a long time to practice and pay attention more and more every day until gotten better and more powerful than ever from before as the years went on by as I grew up in life.
After within a few months have passed to September 2014 as in after I now turned 12 years old – I discovered David Hasselhoff’s performance of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in the Broadway musical on YouTube and when David Hasselhoff heard that I didn’t know anything about a talking car (Knight Rider) or his life on the beach (Baywatch) and only knew him from his time singing on Broadway, He then invited me down to the set of his new movie, “Killing Hasselhoff” starring Ken Jeong and you guessed it – David Hasselhoff himself recently and quite coincidentally at my father’s old working film set place on September 19th 2014.
David spent almost his entire lunch talking to me about what I liked about the musical and what I wanted to do in Hollywood and David even sang two songs from the musical with me and it was truly one of those magical moments where I was a typical little girl, Then at the end of my visit of meeting him, David presented me with a crew t-shirt signed by him and Ken Jeong.
Then after 10 long years later now in 2024, My mother showed me a flyer online and told me of my favorite musical playing that The Nocturne Theatre and I decided to go there on April 21st and decided to take alongside my sister – Bella Zoe and our tutor Maryen Rivkin to see it for the first time in forever and as our very great fun girls afternoon outing to see it and watch it as it was the final performance closing day and first time of going inside The Nocturne Theatre was so cool that it’s a little bit like a bar like type thing and the inside of the stage is like a little bit small or tight, But the theater inside reminds me of the stage in San Diego Comic Con and/or the stage inside Magnificon in Poland and bit for the show itself for first time seeing come alive as in live on stage in person – I wanna say that I LOVED it SO much with the songs and music and the acting and the funny lines and funny moments in there and the deaths and the killing and all that and I also do love what they also did for their excellent hard work for Mr. Hyde suit and the top headed mask with the hair and the green glowing eyes for Justin Meyer in the performance and of course for his singing role with his acting to the show, Well…I do like him…VERY much…From the very first time seeing him live on stage as he performed my favorite songs from the musical show itself makes my heart and soul smile as I watch him on stage as “Jekyll And Hyde”…Also for my sister and Mareyn were also not expecting about the ‘sexy sexy’ scenes in stuff during the show that they were actually not simply prepared for that as well too but I know everything by heart after 10 years so I know in history so I actually forgot to give them a little bit of a warning about that what is coming to them to see next time.
I also like the genius idea that they bring up the wood shape without the glass part for the the mirror in the confrontation song with the actor singing his part and someone doing the talking while he’s singing in the Hyde suit in reflection…My heart was filled with joyful excitement and warmest happiness inside me so much that last June, I did a “Jekyll & Hyde’ musical fanart gift giveaway for the wonderful actors and actresses from “Beauty and The Beast (Musical)” on last June 2nd and I did 5 or 6 copies for Jack Bernaz, For Justin Meyer, For Rachel Franke, For Cassandra Caruso, And for Alyssa Navarro Rafael at The Nocturne Theatre that I went back there and this time I’d bring alongside my mother, My sister, and Natalie Beisner who once worked with Justin Meyer before she came in working with my family as a nanny to me and my siblings before.
Then during the month of April to May, I finally made my own Ink Potts remake animatic video that I already post it on my YouTube Channel last May to get my inspiration and my experience to create my own animatics and I have an original one that I am working on right now too and this animatic is a remake I did for both Princess Twilight Sparkle and Brutalight Sparcake as Jekyll And Hyde.
I even tried proposing a music video with Justin Meyer inside The Nocturne Theatre to do my favorite song that he did “The Confrontation”, But from the past few months and yet for I really still do wished that there will be a full video clip of Justin Meyer doing “The Confrontation” for me just like he did it last April, But I still feel like that recordings are still not gonna be involved during the concert and I still feared that my wish will never come true at all and yet I am still sad about it even after searching everywhere on Instagram stories onto each and every account I looked and checked to get that change to have it for myself, I couldn’t…I tried and I tried and I tried as I put my heart and soul into the effort of spending myself all of every day and all of every night looking everywhere on Instagram stories and videos in each account from the last months just for me to find a perfect chance to where I could have and see the…The Confrontation song in full video clip with Justin Meyer performed from the final performance last April…And all I get is…Nothing…And even he couldn’t be bothered to keep his promise that he said that he’ll let me know that if he got the video link to the song from the scene in the show last April that he’ll send it to me to look at it and that I can have it to myself and now also he can’t be bothered to just do it and find it for me himself…He’d rather spend his time just being busy within other stuff to do in the theater…I wondered and asked myself saying in heartbreaking – “Why does he become this busy more than he tried doing a favor for me?…”…As I have felt like…It’s not enough…Every time I take tiers me…Each time with no response, I shudder in sadden…Yet after all of my talks spent with Justin, His own answer cannot only be spoken quick…And so, I tried to talk it out with him…But perhaps this isn’t really about it so much as it is…Me…I have no acceptation…I propose and propose him for filming stuff, But it does not bring me the release I desperately satisfy to crave…It is not enough to ask his permission, Asunder to propose him, To speak with him…To show him what my skills I done, To let him except my film editing proposal to do the confrontation he did…I have envisioned so many times I could make him accept me…I have seen myself in my tearful eyes…But I’m not satisfied…I have seen myself do all of my own things and more, But it is never enough…And once I have tried after, I know in the pit of my heart that I will feel no more complete than I do now… Day after day onto how hard I tried suggesting my film editing proposal, I get rejected quickly and fast…I feel rejected and unwanted…I grow so weary and tired sadly…An emptiness in my core of sorrow is longing that when I’m the posting queen with no happily grin would tire of her crown if they only understood…Does nothing for these empty tears I bestowed…I still feel like my wish that I waited for a very long time that I wished for will never come true and I’ll never have it for myself…Maybe that I should give up and give myself up trying everything I can do and just never try finding it and have it to myself no more…There’s no point of being happy to myself anymore…There’s nothing that can ever help me make me happily better anymore…I felt like I’m left out…Even when I do everything when I suppose to, I still don’t get what I want…I felt unwanted…I felt like a burden to everyone…And I forced to do all of it within the hard work I did all by myself with no one here to support me and/or to follow me in and even just to show my prove working stuff to him, But no acceptation from him in response…And I feel so heartbrokenness after his message he send still leaves me emotionally upset and frustrated in my sad stressful sorrow of my depression mood as I cry…But now, It doesn’t matter right now and not anymore to me now…And I also honestly don’t what to say to Justin anymore even when I see him in person at the theater…And I feel like that nobody in the theater wants me around her and nobody will accept me and my film editing proposal as well anymore…And after his message he send me, I just felt so sadly depressed, heartbroken, And rejected sadly that it somehow stopped me from actually missed out and to not go out and to see “Broadway Rocks” last summer time of last July that was playing in The Nocturne Theatre
Then to October 14th – My friend Jack Bernaz send me the flyer on Facebook online about my favorite musical making it’s way to The Los Altos United Methodist Church (Long Beach, CA) as in a live staged concert and that is also where my friend, Samatha Rose also live close by to that church as well and that location is apart where Disneyland Resort Theme Park is at as well in Anaheim and I decided to take Natalie alongside with me as well to the concert on October 26th as that is a one show only and it was also on the day of my family’s Halloween Party and Griffin Burns’s 37th birthday.
I also did met some new nice folks and families inside, Then I also met the director of the concert show – Christy Mauro Cohen who has a wrapped banged broken right hand after went on an accident while walking her dog out on her once fun day.
Also fun fact – Jon Peterson himself showed one of my artwork I did and saved just to present it to everyone inside church before the show begins and I wish this musical was live stream recorded and was posted on YouTube privately for today because I was the one who was also apart of audience as well and my drawing was presented to everyone as well too and even for E.L. Losada who did Jekyll/Hyde in the performance and of course for his singing role with his acting to the show, I like him, I like this dude, I like him VERY much and I met him at the very end of the show as well too and he somehow remembered my name and kept my drawing.
So anyways, I would like to say a huge thank you to Ink Potts for showing me and inspiring me to start making animatics and even if this first one was only a re-drawn version of their own and after this, I can start on original videos that I am very excited about it and I’ve been chatting with my friend – Samatha Rose from The Nocturne Theatre last April we first chat on Instagram that she and I have something in common together too from she said to me that we both watched an MLP Ink Potts video of it on YouTube – “This Is The Moment”, “Alive”, and “The Confrontation” and they all were so hooked for the both of us ever since and she’d dressed up as Miss Pie for Halloween 10 years ago and she made the cosplay to match from all of the “Doctor Pinkie & Miss Pie” animatics too and I’m so glad we’d have something in common together from 10 years ago from 2014 to now 2024 of this year and we also first met in person as I gave her my one last final artwork fanart gift giveaway for her from last August 31st 2024 on final performance closing day of “Disney’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame”.
So anyways, Thank you all so much for listening to my story and I will tell you all some more into the near future.
A special shout out and to give out to say thank you so much Ink Potts (Assassin-or-Shadow) for bringing Jekyll And Hyde: The Musical to me as my first inspiration to me that made me to become a person as an artist and singer after 10 years into the start of my art creative journey from start to finish.