Product Description

Ten songs from the Wildhorn/Bricusse Broadway smash, arranged for big-note: In His Eyes * It's a Dangerous Game * Lost in the Darkness * A New Life * No One Knows Who I Am * Once Upon a Dream * Someone Like You * Sympathy, Tenderness * Take Me as I Am * This Is the Moment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117473 in Books
• Brand: Hal Leonard
• Published on: 1997-08-01
• Released on: 2002-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781575600710
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Amazon.com Review
This handsome book includes 15 selections from the 1997 version of Jekyll & Hyde, the gothic-horror musical by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse. Represented are such favorites as the anthem "This Is the Moment" and the female duet of love and longing, "In His Eyes." The book also has full-color photos, notes by Wildhorn and Bricusse, a synopsis, and biographies of the composer and lyricist. Now all you need is Linda Eder and Robert Cuccioli alongside your piano. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

All the songs I needed were in this book!
Including the songs "This Is The Moment", "Take Me As I Am", "Sympathy, Tenderness", "Someone Like You", "Once Upon A Dream", "No One Knows Who I Am", "A New Life", "Lost In The Darkness", "It's A Dangerous Game", and "In His Eyes". Good piano, easy for beginners; easy to read. A wonderful choice for all those Jekkies out there! If you have any questons about this book, please feel free to e-mail me at little_fantine@hotmail.com !

Some good songs from a Great Musical
Ever since I first heard the 1994 Concept Cast Recording of Jekyll and Hyde I have been after the Vocal Selections for this great musical. So I bought this one and was slightly disappointed. However I will deal with the positives first. This book of Vocal Selections provides a great range of songs for male and female voices. For those male singers looking to test their ranges This is the Moment is a perfect choice. And for those looking for great character songs there is Alive and Confrontation. For female voices the ballads Someone Like You and In His Eyes are provided which are two very beautiful songs given justice by the very good piano accompaniment. There are also two great duet pieces, Take Me as I Am and It's a Dangerous Game. There are also some great photos from the Broadway production along with information from the Lyricist and Composer.

However I do have a few problems with this book. A few of the great songs from the Concept Album are not in this. The first major exclusion is the incredibly difficult sing, I Need to Know. The second is Transformation. The last problem is that some of the notes have been changed to make some of the songs easier. For example the last note of Alive! is no longer an incredible high "A" but an "E" Though the positives do indeed outweigh the negatives. There is a wide selection of songs (refer to song list) all equipped with great piano accompaniment.

Song List = Lost In the Darkness. Take Me as I Am. No One Knows Who I Am. Good and Evil. This Is The Moment. Alive! Sympathy, Tenderness. Someone Like You. Murder, Murder! Once Upon A Dream. In His Eyes. It's A Dangerous Game. A New Life. Confrontation

Beautiful Music. Dissapointing book.
I love Jekyll and Hyde, and I'm a Jekkie. So honestly, I expected much more.

While the score is beautiful, the sheet music is lacking.

First off- All the duets, (IE. Dangerous Game) don't have the different characters written in. While this means they can be sung as solos, they could have written the name and the performer have ignored them.

Second- Alive has been butchered to its very core. Its second half-(What I hear is actually the reprise of it) is very good and is the whole reason I bought the book. In this case, however, its missing. What this means is that it was probably shortened with the idea of an audition.

Second, the last note Hyde hits in Alive! has been changed from a High A to a E. Easily fixable, but annoying.

If you have the 1994 concept album with Anthony Warlow and were expecting things like 'I need to Know' and 'Bring On the men', these won't be found here as they are cut from most shows. Don't fear-these can be found in 'The World of Jekyll and Hyde' sheet book.

Its hard for me to reccomend this. However, if you really need 'This is The Moment' sheet music, this is the easiest way to get it. But, if you ever find the now out-of-print CONCEPT ALBUM of Jekyll and Hyde Sheet music, that has all these things fixed, grab that.