Jekyll & Hyde Takes the Broadway Playhouse Stage
The Frank Wildhorn musical of Stevenson's split-self story runs at the Broadway Playhouse off Michigan Avenue.
🎭 Thursday night in Streeterville
🎭 What the show does with the story
Robert Louis Stevenson published the novella in 1886 as a case study in respectability and what it costs to maintain. The Frank Wildhorn musical keeps that frame and gives the transformation to one performer working without a costume change. The whole thing turns on whether a single actor can hold both voices in one body while the audience watches for the seam. The score leans operatic, and the two women written around him carry more of the plot than the title suggests.
🏛 A small room for a big score
The Broadway Playhouse sits inside Water Tower Place with about 550 seats, which is a fraction of the houses this musical usually plays. At that scale you hear breath and consonants that a 2,000-seat theatre swallows, and the transformation lands as acting rather than as amplification. The rake is steep enough that sightlines hold from the back row.
🎟 Getting there and timing it
Curtain is 7:00 PM at 175 East Chestnut Street, a block off the Magnificent Mile and a seven-minute walk from the Chicago Red Line stop. Water Tower Place validates garage parking only for mall purchases, so street parking on Chestnut or the Red Line are the cheaper routes. The show runs about two and a half hours with one intermission.
