# David Hasselhoff is no Robert Cuccoli
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 20, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075 "2002-12-20T18:50:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/1 "2002-12-20T18:50:56Z")
And Coleen Sexton is no Linda Eder.
I’m watching “Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical” on HBO.
Now, I saw this show went it first got to Broadway. Robert Cuccoli did an absolutely extraordinary job as Jekyll / Hyde. And Linda Eder sang the hell out of the role of Lucy.
In the video release, David Hasselhoff is Jekyll, and some chick named Coleen Sexton is Lucy.
What an absolutely pathetic, useless, performance. Hasselhoff cannot sing the role at all. It’s embarrassing. Sexton can sing, but she’s a pale shadow of Eder.
If I were Hasselhoff, I would hide in shame.
- Rick
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### Author:  [@tsunamisurfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsunamisurfer)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/2 "2002-12-21T02:29:18Z")
Agreed. Cuccoli and Eder were tops. When I heard Hasselhoff had been cast for the lead role, I thought I was having a psychotic break.
Meanwhile, I here Cuccoli is resurrecting “Baywatch” while Pamela Lee Anderson has nabbed the lead role in Phantom of the Opera.
Sorry, Bricker, too esoteric, even for the Boards. I doubt you’ll get four posts total.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/3 "2002-12-21T04:28:01Z")
The worst part of it was walking in Times Square, looking up, and seeing a _huge_ billboard of Hasselhoff dressed as Jekyll/Hyde with the caption: “This is no day at the beach.”
Jesus.
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/4 "2002-12-21T04:53:06Z")
I hear Germans love him, though.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/5 "2002-12-21T13:54:27Z")
I wish Robert Cuccoli would do “Phantom of the Opera.” And David Hasselhoff was a typical case of what is known in theatre as “Stunt Casting”–putting someone in the lead who will bring fans in, no matter how bad they are. Later the lead was played by Sebastin Bach.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/6 "2002-12-21T15:20:20Z")
Actually, Sebastian Bach played Jekyll _before_ Hasselhoff did; that’s why Hasselhoff is the one on the DVD/HBO special. It was filmed during the final weeks of the run.
But you’re right about one thing: they were both examples of stunt casting.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/7 "2002-12-21T18:09:14Z")
I seem to remember seeing on the Baywatch “True Hollywood Story” that Hasselhoff had this production filmed for a pay-per-view special. It aired the night OJ did his slo-mo car chase and no one watched Hasselhoff. Literally, no one.
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### Author:  [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/8 "2002-12-21T18:53:18Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by DooWahDiddy \*
> \*\*The worst part of it was walking in Times Square, looking up, and seeing a _huge_ billboard of Hasselhoff dressed as Jekyll/Hyde with the caption: “This is no day at the beach.” \*\*
Sometimes there is some truth in advertising.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/9 "2002-12-21T20:58:13Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Otto \*
> \*\*I seem to remember seeing on the Baywatch “True Hollywood Story” that Hasselhoff had this production filmed for a pay-per-view special. It aired the night OJ did his slo-mo car chase and no one watched Hasselhoff. Literally, no one. \*\*
No, no, no… OJ Simpson did his thing on June 17, 1994, _way_ before Jekyll and Hyde was around. Opening night of the show was April 28, 1997, and Hasselhoff’s performance was broadcast on March 10, 2001.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-hasselhoff-is-no-robert-cuccoli/144075/10 "2002-12-22T18:41:13Z")
Hmm. Maybe I’m confusing J&H with some other p-p-v thing Hasselhoff did. God help me, I may have to watch the Baywatch THS again.