This used to be real popular at the Les Miz board, and I thought, why not do the same thing for Jekyll & Hyde? So all right, Jekkies, I'll start out. Please add your own additions. PLEASE??? :D


You know you're obssessed with Jekyll & Hyde when...

You can't get by a single day without hearing at least one of the recordings.

You love to act out "Alive" Reprise, complete with an imaginary cane and bishop.

You own recordings in more than one language.

You've performed one of the song in public, rather that be in front of a big audience or just in front of you're "he/she's a weirdo" thinking friends.

You're life ambition is to be in or direct or do SOMETHING for the show.

Or, you already have.

You have a crush on one of the characters or actors/actresses in the show.

You've read Robert Louis Stevenson's novel multiple times.

You've seen/own several different film versions, and won't get rid of any of them, even if some of them stink. ("But that's my Jekyll & Hyde collection!)

You can't bear standing next to a musical instrument without banging out "Alive" on it.

Any of you're family members have personally banned you from "Jekyll & Hyde".

Or, in the oppisite vein, you've converted one or more of them into true Jekkies (sweet!)

You do regular "Jekyll" merchandise searches on eBay.


Well, that's all I can think of at the moment. I'll come back and post some more later. :P

Its shameful how many of those apply to me :-)

When every time you hear the words good and evil in the same scentence, you automatically start singing the song.

When every time someone says the word "Hypocrites" you sing to yourself, "Hypocrites, hypocrites!"

When any time you see a long over coat, you think of Jekyll and Hyde.

When any time you see the novel, you automatically pick it up and flip to your favorite section. You already know the whole thing anyway...

Sadly, all those apply to me, as well as most of the ones ashtonu posted. Yeeshk.

Actually, it isn't sad at all, quite splendid, actually... :D

You quote the MUSICAL in a major AP english paper... and get an A.

Anytime you hear one of the four words "sacriledge," "lunacy," "blasphemy," or "heresy," you have to sing the other three.

You draw little Hyde-like figures all over your math notebook.

When you did the show, you stole personal effects from the lead actor... and hung them on your bedroom wall.

My own personal one:

You own 9 different editions of the book.

And buy more whenever you see them.

*hangs head in shame*

Oh wow.

I only have one edition of the book.

*hangs head*

Sacrilege, lunacy, blasphemy, heresy. Thank *insert favorite higher being here* I'm, not the only one that does that.

To warm up you sing/play the "Nearly everyone you see..." part from Facade.

You learned to play all of the songs on a chosen instrument and have never pruchased a music book nor seen any form of sheet music for it.

When asked to burn the CD for someone you immediately name off all 5+ versions that you own, automatically assuming that the person you are talking to knows the difference.

First thing you check for when making friends: Ever heard of Jekyll & Hyde?

You've analyzed the play to the point of religiously philosophical metaphors or lessons.

YES! I've done this and almost regularly end up seriously scaring someone with my weirdo philosophies.

I've written papers on it. People have learned not to ask me questions about J&H because I always end up talking about Freudian theories or christianity or other literature or sex. Hahaha *evil laugh*

I remember the time last year when my Dad brought me home the DVD of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". I knew nothing about it but he thought I would like it - he gave it to me and I excitedly said (as was my usual question of the time) "Does it have Jekyll in it?" I was so astonished when he replied "Yes."

But, to lists.

> You get so, so, SO excited when you find out that a non-Jekkie that you know has heard "This is the Moment" or "A New Life" or one of those songs that lives outside the show.

> Whenever you are asked to play/sing anything, it's from J&H. (when I bought my new keyboard, all the store clerks got so annoyed when I continually played that piano interlude from the middle of "Alive!" on each keyboard to test it...)

> You can sing all the songs/lines from every version of the show. Even the foreign language ones. Even if you don't speak the language.

> You buy a lacy corset. And the first thing you do is don it and run about wildly singing "Bring on the Men".

> You have never listened to the original editions of the CDs - you've burnt them all so you don't stand the chance of wearing out the original.

> You keep the originals in a locked, glass-fronted dresser so they can be on display and no one can touch them.

So, am I mad, or what?

I'm actually looking to buy a corset soon. I have a hunch that I will be asked to understudy the role of Janet Weiss in Rocky Horror Picture Show in the near future :-)

And I do that at school all the time... the piano thing, not the corset thing.

Freudian psychology and sex? Isn't that a bit redundant? Though I can see how it would fit. Hyde makes a good id. My psych teacher had us listen to Music of the Night with the word "Id" in mind. Never looking at that the same way again.

When you've converted people to Jekyll & Hyde.

When you and two friends you've converted check every bookstore you see for copies of the novel and squeal when you find them.

When one of the people you've converted calls you excitedly because she heard "Dr. Jekyll" and "Mr. Hyde" on an episode of ER and immediately thought of you.

When, in language class, your teacher starts talking about the evil in men and you're thinking "Hyde. Hyde. Hyde." and you turn to find your friends smiling knowingly at you.

When one of your friends asks for a brief summary of the show and you end up explaining the novel, the musical, and the differences between Concept and Broadway.

When your biology notes have the lyrics to A new life and Facade scribbled on the margins.

And hi, I'm new here *is shy*

All over my history notes are my pathetic attempts at trying to perfectly write the Jekyll & Hyde signature.
The War of (Jekyll & Hyde) 1812 was fought by (Jekyll & Hyde) James Madison (Jekyll & Hyde) our (Jekyll & Hyde) 4th (Jekyll & Hyde) President (I love Lucy Harris.)


And hello there!

Welcome, gelsticker! Pleased to know you.

You know, Jekkies, we are so pathetic! Really, we are. But since we are unified in our patheticness, it is not a crime. We are just so strange, as to have actually done these absurd things we have named!!

But, happily, I am guilty of most of these horrendous crimes. Maybe Hyde will have to teach me a lesson.... *evil chuckle*

All right, I've got some more. (It's rather strange, but I can't really think of these ahead of time. So all of the following are going to be written simply on the "spur of the moment".


You know you're obsessed with Jekyll & Hyde when...


Every single time you do anything, you have to sing "This is the Moment" beforehand.

You wouldn't mind being a prostitute, as long as you got to sing "Bring on the Men".

You LOVE playing "Hyde and Seek".

Every time you get stressed, you have an irrepressible urge to hold your head and burst out singing "The World Has Gone Insane".

You're reading this list right now.

You love the author Henry James simply because he has the same initials as Henry Jekyll.

You're STILL ticked off that Anthony Warlow has never performed in the show.

You think "This is the Moment" should be made the national anthem.

Everytime you drink red kool-aid, you hold your glass up and sing, "Like a warning light, glimmering in red. Like crimson blood shed, shimmering in red..."

No one around you is surprised by this.

You're constantly making "Hyde faces" in the mirror at yourself, and practcing your fiendish "Hyde laugh".


*dramtic drum roll*
TO BE CONTINUED... :)

Oh, sad, these are beginning to apply to me more and more with each passing one!! :o Ha ha, lol. Maybe I can think of some...

I can't think of any. But guess what's really sad? I actually am looking to buy a black corset, FFF. Have been for a while now. I REALLY need to go do it now, as I'm finally going to have some cash! Hooray!!!!

I think it'd be a bit more scary if I were to admit to some of these. (like buying a corset.)
You plan on naming your children after the show. If you have a lot of children, some of them will just have to be named "Chorus Member #3" and so on.

I must say, that one is incredibly funny!! Or it just strikes me as so. Actually I don't have to buy a corset. My family has three waist corsets in our Halloween box, and an ugly yellow whole torso one that is just ugly, but my mom bought it so I could try it on. The one I'm planning on buying is sexy and black.

I myself have never tried on a corset, however I did by a cloak and cane last year so I could be Hyde for Halloween. That's about as close as I've gotten.

I, being a girl, cannot be Hyde for Halloween. Well, I suppose I could, actually, but the idea never occured to me. I did consider being Lucy, but everyone would wonder about that. Oh well. I did once dress up as Hyde and scare my friend out in my garage. I tricked her into thinking I was out there, and then I dressed as Hyde and hid in the corner. It was awesome.

I think I managed to scare a few people the day I dressed up as Hyde. I had this habit of screaming Hyde's murdering lines at anyone who pissed me off. Parents taking their kids out trick or treating didn't like it much.

LOVE IT! Do you have any pictures??? *please say yes*

I sadly do not. My dad being an engineer is convinced that since he knows everything about computers, he can find some way to get pictures onto the computer without either a digital camera or working scanner. I told him putting the pictures into the floppy disk drive wouldn't work but no.... And yes, I am kidding. that's just a long winded way of me saying, 'No.'

:o :unsure: :( :angry: Well, do you still have your costume? If you do, I'd like to see pictures. Also, if you do, I'd share pictures of me as Lucy and Emma/Lisa.

My costume is in various pieces around the house somewhere, but again... no pictures are able to be uploaded onto computer.
So, back on topic...

If you had no idea who David Hasslehoff was before you knew about Jekyll & Hyde

You make a point in your conversations by quoting Jekyll & Hyde.

You watched Wishbone every day in the hopes that it would be the Jekyll & Hyde episode.

You refuse to watch either League of Extraoridinary Gentlemen or the beginning or Van Helsing for moral reasons.

These are all brilliant! I'd love to do some dressing up as the characters but sadly here we don't actually celebrate Halloween on the whole. Well, some rare people do but no one really pays attention. I've never gone "trick or treating" in my love, though I'd love to. I did wear my corset to my year 10 formal last year, though!

> Anything red and shiny provokes you to sing "Transformation" all the way through. I know it does for me.

> You've travelled to see the show.

> You've travelled to another state to see the show.

(Well, I will be doing so. Soon. Next week, in fact.)

Whoa, all are so me! I've never actually seen Van Helsing, but my friend saw it, and she was like, "They killed Jekyll and Hyde!" or something to that effect, exept it was very lengthy and detailed. It was pretty funny. *sigh* Good times, good times.

Yeah, Van Helsing and LXG kinda confused me since at the end of the Jekyll & Hyde novel, Jekyll kinda DIES! I didn't even try figuring that one out.

Hmmm... I haven' t seen either of these movies. Should I bother? How are the other chracters portrayed?

I was under the impression that you were 14.

When I was 14 my parents would have sooner done away with me than let me wear a corset.

Just sayin'...

Yeah, I was 16 before my parents let me wear one.
Yeah..... leaving now....

Thats cute, I heart you.

Haha, yeah... Could you tell that to my parents please? :D

Are you being serious about the corset thing? I can't tell online, haha.

But if you are serious, I think its awesome.

<3

Word. Edward Hyde does not have an Irish accent or lurk within the cathedral of Notre Dame. Hellloooooo.....

What? Hyde isn't Irish?! Next you're going to tell me that there were actually four main character's in The Three Musketeers. Utter blasphemy I tell you.

Sacriledge... lunacy...... heresy.

You mean the three musketeers aren't donatello, michaelangelo, raphael and... oh... you know... that other one... leonardo?

I killed it. Whatever :P

No, you're thinking of the Ghostbusters, silly.

"You seem to be treading on dangerous ground, in legal terms I'd say extremely unsound."
I should've known not to use the word blasphemy.

Actually I was thinking of ninja turtles. I'm pretty sure. Hahah you have successfully confused me. Not that it's that hard.

Yeah, I was trying to make a funny, but it came out as a please-dear-Allah-send-this-kid-to-bed-before-he-tries-another-funny.