WET WET WET frontman Marti Pellow will unleash his darker side when he takes on the title role in the musical Jekyll and Hyde at The Mayflower.

Pellow stars as the brilliant but obsessive scientist whose sadistic alter ego wreaks havoc across Victorian London in a dark tale of love, redemption and the seductive power of evil.

Glamorous, sexy and deliciously wicked in equal measures, Jekyll and Hyde is based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic gothic novella and marks Pellow’s hotly-anticipated return to the UK stage. Pellow’s career began when he formed the band Wet Wet Wet with his school friends, which went on to become one of the most successful and highly acclaimed bands in British pop history.

The band enjoyed consistent chart topping multi-platinum albums and have been nominated for and won major industry awards including the Ivor Novellos and The Brits.

Their 1994 single Love Is All Around featured on the soundtrack to the romantic comedy of the decade, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and continues to be one of the top five highest selling singles and most played songs of all time in the UK.

As well as a critically-acclaimed solo career, Pellow has gone on to star in the West End, on Broadway and on national tour in the smash-hit stage musicals Chicago and The Witches of Eastwick.

He also co-starred with Josh Groban in the TV and film special Chess in Concert and most recently gained huge personal accolades for his performance on BBC Radio 2’s Elvis Forever concert.

Written by Frank Wildhorn with lyrics by the Academy Award-winning composer Leslie Bricusse, the Broadway production of Jekyll and Hyde features the hit song This Is The Moment. It ran for over 1,500 performances between 1997 and 2001.

• Tickets for Jekyll and Hyde (28 March – 2 April 2011) are on sale from The Mayflower Box Office tel: 023 8071 1811, online at mayflower.org.uk or in person from the Mayflower ticket south shop in The Mall (Marlands), Southampton. Ovation restaurant bookings: 023 8071 1833.