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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.
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9 \ Jek y 11 an d Hyde has made Wildhorn and Cuden’s pro-
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■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.
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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
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