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if- fer ms :al prot ers pre aching ebsites s “tern- ed late ed from in name hat con- Jlar Hi 'Oft said, . not re iStomer: sites Hit he onet s home oft.com, sen inac- ■JBC.coiti /ISN.cor ration h Thursday, January 25, 2001 AG GrlElife THE BATTALION X & HydG: opposites attract 0PA5 brings show to Rudder Auditorium for an encore performance Thursday night Page 3 By Matthew Parker ier 1 to sion - Oneo: U desig- 3 laced o- :> aliSi oleaTue; e got in depi )ort in rrying The Battalion The battles of man against himself and good against evil are waged in Jekyll and Hyde, now playing at Texas A&M. The story entails the power struggle between | two polar opposites. Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde, and what happens when both men live inside the same body. “Hyde is the easier character to play. He’s the ex tremist - he’s just evil,” said Guy LeMonnier, the actor who plays Jekyll and Hyde, in an interview with Pat Cur ry from Online Athens. “I wanted to take a look at Jekyll and reveal his sym pathetic side,” LeMonnier said. “He really does have a mission; there really is a goal and a frustration to the things he wants to accomplish.” Jekyll and Hyde is a musical with a score by Houston | natives Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden. The two-and- a-half hour show will be performed at A&M’s Rudder Auditorium tonight. ^ ^ Their musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 9 \ Jek y 11 an d Hyde has made Wildhorn and Cuden’s pro- ^ ^H!! P uct * on highly sought after by theater producers, some ■comparing their work to Andrew Lloyd Weber. The Grammy-nominated score includes the songs “Someone Like You” and “This Is The Moment.” The songs have been recorded in three languages and covered |by Tracy Lawrence, Liza Manelli, Whitney Houston and he Moody Blues. Wildhorn also composed Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civ- l War: Our Story in Song and Dracula. Wildhorn’s fans followed him from Houston’s Alley Theater to New York’s Plymouth Theater. Jekyll and Hyde is the longest-running show in the his tory of the Plymouth Theater. “Many people who were there for the original show in Houston are pretty interested in seeing it again,” said Jeremy Byrd, a senior psychology major and MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society (OPAS) chair man. “They would like to see how the show’s been revamped. “It is not a show that we would recommend for little kids to go see,” said Byrd. “It’s kin- da dark and has a few murder scenes.” LeMonnier had to go through a complete transformation for the dual-character role. “I had to change my diet around to be in the best shape possible,” he said in the inter view with Curry. “It’s like running a marathon.” Other big names who have played the lead role on Broadway are David Hasselhoff from “Baywatch,” Sebastian Bach from the band Skid Row and Jack Wagner from “Melrose Place.” All received critical acclaim. The big names were not big enough to keep the musical financially afloat. On Jan. 7, with Hasselhoff as Jekyll/Hyde, the show ended its four-year run on Broadway. “Obviously, we’d all love to see it con tinue its life on Broadway,” Wildhorn said in a letter to his fans. “All things come to an end, and sometimes a door closes so another one can open.” Wildhorn’s letter to fans can be read at www.frankwild- horn.com. More than 120 million tickets have been sold, and the show has been performed 1,543 times since the musi cal’s birth in 1980. Next year, Jekyll and Hyde will play in Tokyo, Milan and London. Jekyll and Hyde is the story of a high-mind ed Victorian doctor whose experiments un leash his alter ego. Student tickets are still available. llectioosi s of oif million^ jf v object ^ :t, thesi WHAT CHICKS WANT Prof teaches instinctual behavior in poultry science class By Lance Lunsford The Battalion Students enrolled in Poultry Science 333 prob ably knew exactly what they were getting into when they signed up for the class. However, they could probably not explain why the class is in the poultry science department. Dr. John Manning, the class’s professor, rolls students through a crash course in human nature as a result of evolution. Manning said his class is not for the weak-minded. ‘It’s a class on human nature,” he said. “We want to teach people how to understand oth ers and themselves. It’s about cultivating your inner space. Manning’s interest in the subject is supplement ed by Mark Stewart, a doctoral student at A&M. Stewart said the duo realized a need for the class af ter an evolutionary psychology class in fall 1996. The next semester, Manning began teaching the class with Stewart as a guest lecturer. “We started with 62 students the first semester and went up to 155 the next semester,” he said. “Each time, it’s been at capacity.” Today the enrollment is more than 350. The class teaches the historical development of the sexual and reproductive relationships be tween man and woman. The theories dominating the class may be the reason the class is packed, making it impossible to enroll after junior registration. One of those theories is innate in stincts, the theory that decision-making skills are embedded in the subconscious, helping humans and animals survive and raise offspring. Waist-to-hip ratio is another theory stud ied in the class. This theory says the ratio of the measurement of the waist to the hip is something that people subconsciously consider when evaluating someone’s attractiveness. This See Chicks on Page 4. son (»«•*?..:' AM , 78 40. P0S1MAS® Where it matters most. As one of the world's leading diversified technology companies, we're breaking new ground in every thing from defense and commercial electronics, and business aviation and special mission aircraft. As a Raytheon employee, you'll contribute to the development of exciting, revolutionary technology designed to make life better, easier, and safer throughout the world. 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