The 1920s silent film “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” will be on screen at 7 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, accompanied by a live orchestra.
This is the Kenworthy’s main fundraiser for the year, and admission is $20 for the general public and $10 for students. Tickets can be ordered online or bought at the door.
Attendees can also buy food from Maialina Pizzeria Napoletana and Hunga Dunga at a no-host bar in the theater, said Jamie Hill, Kenworthy operations manager. She said appetizers and desserts at the event are included for ticket buyers.
“We’re a nonprofit organization and so we try and have one big fun fundraiser every year,” Hill said.
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is a story of Dr. Henry Jekyll, whose studies cause him to become obsessed with creating a potion that will separate the good from the evil in people. In the story, most people either believe Jekyll’s end goal is a gamble that shouldn’t be made or they just see him as a joke or ‘mad.’
Hill said the showing of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” will be accompanied by musician Dylan Champagne, a UI alumnus who also accompanied the Kenworthy’s showing of “The Phantom of the Opera” last year. Hill said Champagne’s score proved popular, and she said she and others at the Kenworthy were happy to have him back.
It was Champagne who chose “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” as the film for the fundraiser.
Along with Champagne’s composition, a live 8-piece ensemble directed by Al Gemberling will accompany the silent film.
“Sometimes you never know what’s coming with these kinds of things, but they always tend to wow you,” said University of Idaho freshman Valerie Denton. “But Jekyll and Hyde has been amazing in any format it encounters and each of these has a new splash of life to it. Whether it be the book, the film, the musical, or this new score. It all creates a different perspective on a classical novel.”
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