This is the Moment is a song by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse, and is the centerpiece of Frank Wildhorn and Steve Cuden's musical Jekyll & Hyde. Actors from the Broadway production like Robert Cuccioli and David Hasselhoff sing it in the key of E, while other actors can sing it in other keys.
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This is the moment is sung by Jekyll in the moment he decides to test his formula in himself. In the song he says how he waited for this moment and this is the greatest moment of his life. There is a transition in the stage between Jekyll's living room and his laboratory, the places where the scene happen. When the song ends, he is at his laboratory, ready to test the formula.
There were a few changes in the lyrics of the song comparing the concept version and the actual version.
While in the concept lyrics, Jekyll sings:
"This is the day, Just see it shine, When all I've lived for, Becomes mine!"
In the actual version, he sings:
"This is the day, See it sparkle and shine, When all I've lived for, Becomes mine!"
The part in the concept version, when he sings:
"This is the moment, This is the hour, When I can open up tomorrow Like a flower, And put my hand to, Everything I planned to, Fulfil my grand design, See all my stars align!"
Where the melody is very similar to the beginning of the song, was totally changed, with the melody and lyrics changed to:
"For all these years, I've faced the world alone, And now the time has come To prove to them I've made it on my own!"
Jekyll:
This is the moment
This is the day
This is the moment when I know I'm on my way
Every endeavour I have made ever is coming into play
Is here and now today
This is the moment
This is the time
When the mometum and the moment are in rhyme
Give me this moment, this precious chance
I'll gather up my past and make some sense at last
This is the moment
When all I've done
All of the dreaming, scheming and screaming become one.
This is the day
See it sparkle and shine
When all I've lived for becomes mine
For all these years I've faced the world alone
And now the time has come to prove to them I made it on my own
This is the moment
My final test
Destiny beckoned - I never reckoned second best
I won't look down
I must not fall
This is the moment
The sweetest moment of them all
This is the moment
Damn all the odds!
This day or never, I'll sit forever with the Gods!
When I look back
I will always recall
Moment for moment
This was the moment
The greatest moment
Of them all!
The song was translated to various languages in the foreign productions of Jekyll & Hyde, including Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, German, Swedish, and Spanish.