Rockabye Hamlet

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Rockabye Hamlet
2014 Ophelia Theatre Group poster

Rockabye Hamlet is a rock musical with a book, lyrics, and music by Cliff Jones. It is based on the classic tragedy by William Shakespeare and tells the story of a Danish prince who plots revenge on his uncle for killing his father.

Production history

The show's original title was Kronborg: 1582.

Ophelia. It was staged by the Charlottetown Festival in 1974 and 1975,[2] then toured eastern Canada with Brent Carver as Hamlet and Beverly D'Angelo
as Ophelia.

Jones revised the show and retitled it Rockabye Hamlet for a

Horatio, Meat Loaf as the Priest, and Christopher Chadman and Winston DeWitt Hemsley as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
.

A studio cast recording featuring ten songs from the score was released on the Rising label.[4] Vocals were provided by Cliff Jones, Rory Dodd, Cal Dodd, Lisa Hartt, and The Irish Rovers.

In 1981, Jones revised the show once again.[5] It was staged as Somethin' Rockin' in Denmark at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It had an 18-month run.[2]

In the summer of 2008, with a revised script and score by Jones, it was presented at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in downtown Toronto by Larry Westlake and capricorn 9 productions.

In September 2013, a revival workshop was produced through the Performing Arts Department at

SUNY Cortland
, directed by composer Cliff Jones and original cast member Terrie Robinson.

In May 2014, Ophelia Theatre Group based in

Astoria, NY produced the first full revival of "Rockabye Hamlet" in Queens, directed by Pep Speed. [6]

In July 2014, the Bizarre Noir Theatre Company staged the first Manhattan revival at

The Player's Theatre in Greenwich Village. Directed by P. William Pinto, this darker version of the piece utilized a combination of the original score, unused songs from the concept album, and newer compositions by Jones.[7]

In the summer of 2017, The Charlottetown Festival produced a concert version of a completely reworked "Kronborg: 1582" at The Indian River Festival. With new orchestrations by Craig Fair, and starring Aaron Hastelow as Hamlet, Kristen Pottle as Ophelia, Cam MacDuffee as Claudius, Alanna Hibbert as Gertrude, and Connor Lucas as Laertes. The concert was restaged on the Mainstage of The Charlottetown Festival a month later with Adam Brazier as Laertes.

Broadway song list

References

  1. ^ "Kronborg: 1582" Archived 2017-09-24 at the Wayback Machine.The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ a b "Hamlet rock musical back on stage at Indian River Festival - CBC News". Archived from the original on 2017-07-28.
  3. ^ Kenrick, John."Stage Musicals 1970s - Part 1" Archived 2009-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Musicals 101.
  4. Cast Albums Database. Rockabye Hamlet (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
    . Released 1976.
  5. ISBN 9781442251656
    .
  6. ^ "About". Ophelia Theatre Group.
  7. ^ Company, Bizarre Noir Theatre. "Welcome to Bizarre Noir Theatre Company". Bizarre Noir Theatre Company.

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