He says that the best part about the show is “The challenge of talking with an English accent and having short hair and being reserved. That’s not me…When I’m Dr. Jekyll, I’m a doctor, so I can’t be up there doin’ kicks off the drum riser.  I love challenging myself, I feel good about myself if I can do something that I never thought I could do and pull it off that to me kicks @ss." "The first night I was really nervous, obviously.  I mean you would be too.  I didn’t f*ck up or anything  -- knock on wood --, but I couldn’t believe it – rock 'n roll brought me to this – I can’t believe it -- its unbelievable, and I never compromised who the fuck I was.  Its not like when (Jon) Bon Jovi said, ‘ I’m going to be an actor now.’  Its like I’m just Sebastian Bach and if you don’t like it suck me.  Like I don’t care, I’ll never change who the f*ck I am, cause I love me too much. – It’s true, it’s totally true, I love what I do, so why change.  If it ain’t broke, don’t’ break it.  And yes I did make that up.”

   
Having never done anything like this in his life, there were sure to be a few snags during rehearsals, one in particular that Bach says happened while performing the steamy sex scene between Hyde and Lucy, who is played by Coleen Sexton, in front of the rest of the cast.

“Well, to me the funniest thing that happened was the first time I did 'Dangerous Games' in rehearsal, and I had to really do it, I got a hard-on (he laughs) and I had to stop half-way through and like walk around and everybody was laughing their guts out. ‘Cause I’m not an actor – of course I’m an actor now, obviously, I’m a f*cking excellent f*cking actor but to me the reason I’m a good actor is because I’m not acting, when I turn into Hyde, I’m F*cking Hyde OK!  There’s no joking around.  Every time I turn into Hyde and I’m standing there in silence, you can’t hear a fucking pin drop in the whole f*cking theater and I feel it…It’s true there’s your story.”
   

  
But Bach is no stranger to acting.  He filmed the movie Point Doom with Andrew Dice Clay and Richard Grieco.  And though the rock 'n roll movie in which Bach plays a drug dealer is now scheduled to air on HBO, Bach says that it was something he did two years ago and it's "NOT worth talking about."

"This is a little more classy.  This is class, I’m into class.  I don’t think most rockers give a f*ck about class, they don’t even know what it is really.  I know what class is all about.  When I sing 'I Remember You' in the video and '18 & Life' that’s class, integrity, perfection, that’s what I’m all about.  That’s what I’ve always been about.  That’s why I’m not in Skid Row, obviously they have zero f*cking class.

"I have respect for the stage.  Do you understand?  When I go up there, I feel so graced from God that I am able to make my dreams come true and live on the stage and sing and perform…I respect it, I don’t ever take it for granted no matter what, no matter what.  I don’t give a shit that I’ve sold 22 million records and that I’m a Broadway leading man, I still show up here at five o’clock and I warm up my voice and I f*cking do my push-ups and my sit-ups and I don’t screw up the words – knock on wood – there’s a lot of words to remember – ok, let me tell you how many, I feel like I got the encyclopedia Britannica shoved in my head.  That’s a lot of f*cking material, you know. 

"We practiced for a month and a half, every single day – well, six days a week, from noon till five and I’ve practiced with the ultimate director Robert Phillips…he really taught me how to act.  It’s a discipline. You don’t just go up there and go for it, its like regimented – its disciplined – and I love it, I f*cking love it.  I love pushing myself seeing what I’m capable of.  Anybody that’s my fan please understand that that’s what I’m all about, ever since I f*cking started.  Like in Skid Row, everything I ever did, my solo record, touring like I do.  I always push myself as hard as I f*cking can.  I don’t just rest on my laurels.  It's not about 1989 for me it's about the year 2000 and 2001.  That’s what I think of -- I don’t think of f*cking ’91, it was great, it was wonderful, it was ten years ago!”

Though he loves to tour, Bach says right now he is content being in one place so he can see his children.  "I don’t get to see them enough and I love them and I miss them.  So obviously I like that – no contest.  I love going on the road but I miss my sons, and I miss my wife and I miss my house …nobody tours more than me so I can f*cking say that. When I go out, I go OUT."  And though he had initially intended on doing a longer tour, he says "You don’t turn down Broadway, we also did about ninety shows, it was not a short tour…that was the plan (to do a longer tour like he had done prior to Bring 'Em Bach Alive!) but things change…I’m not going to turn down Broadway to play the f*cking Birch Hill.

I wouldn’t turn down Broadway if I was selling out arenas, I would cancel it.  This is like, special.  This is a special time in my life and I love every f*cking minute of it.  Even when I’m tired -- I’m beat up, I still love it, cause I know I did good.  When I go to bed at night I go ahhh (big sigh), I rock! ”

On the Rock Side

In a dressing room adorned with KISS posters left by the former leading man Jack Wagner, Bach proudly boasted that he has received several visits from the band, and was just asked to open some tour dates for KISS in California by their manager Doc McGhee who has already seen the show a few times as well.

“They all buy tickets to come watch me now, so that’s pretty cool.  But Doc asked me to open up for KISS in California coming in August, and I go, ‘I’m doing this (Broadway).’  So he asked me then, 'Well how’d you like to go to Australia in December and open up for KISS on the Australian KISS tour?'  It's not for sure yet, but Doc McGhee asked me to come play with them. So, maybe New Years Eve I will be opening for them in Australia.  So, Skid Who?  I thought that was the only thing they had up on me.  So now, KISS what?"

His success has also put him in the position to turn down an offer from Warner Bros. to participate in their upcoming Metal God movie.  “They called me for that.  They wanted to pay me a thousand bucks and me fly myself out to LA and back.  I go, you know what, get the dude in Slaughter…This (Jekyll & Hyde) has got more rock 'n roll in its little finger."

He explains, “I saw Marky Mark and I go, ‘do you like metal’ and he goes ‘no’.  So that’s great, let's cast a guy that doesn’t even like metal.  That’s true to the heart!”

One thing that is definite is that Bach will continue on with his solo career after his time on Broadway.  “I’ve signed a four album deal with Spitfire Records, and as soon as I’m done with this play in October, I’m going to go to bed for about a month (laughs) and I’m going to start making the most @ss kicking record in the history of human beings.

I have that intention with every record that I do – this is going to be the best one ever.It may not work out like that in the end, but that’s my intention. So this next one will be the best got d@mn album in the history of rock 'n roll music -- if you ask me.”