'Hamlet' musical set to rock Toronto...again!
Originally commissioned for C.B.C. Radio, Kronborg:1582 played at the Charlottetown Festival (Prince Edward Island) to critical acclaim in 1974 and '75, followed by a Canadian tour (including stops in Toronto and Hamilton) with Brent Carver as Hamlet and Beverly D'Angelo as Ophelia.
Renamed Rockabye Hamlet, and substantially revised under the direction of Gower Champion, it opened on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre on February 17, 1976, starring Larry Marshall, D'Angelo and Meat Loaf, playing for just 7 performances. Now Toronto gets a chance to see a revised version for 3 performance only.
With new revisions by Jones and re-titled Something's Rockin' in Denmark, the show then enjoyed a 14-month run in Los Angeles. The musical won twelve Dramalogue Awards (L.A.) and has since been successfully produced many times.
Here's what some critics have said about the show:
"This 'Hamlet' is something special. Lacking dialogue, it rolls with ease from ballads to boogie woogie, blues, country and western and campy musical style and yet maintains the basic tragic plotline right to the bloody finale!" VARIETY
"The show exploded onto the stage … a sassy, flashy spectacular!" AP
For this new concert staging of Something's Rockin' in Denmark, Cliff Jones has adapted his script and score, taking the best of all previous productions. He will also direct the show, joined by Lona Davis as musical director and Mimi Woods Doherty as choreographer/assistant director. The cast of 18 features Ted Ambrose, Lisa Bell, Matthew A.C. Campbell, Trevor Covelli, Scott Freethy, Michael Harvey, Laura Higgs and Gerald Isaac.
Something's Rockin' in Denmark plays Friday, July 25 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, July 26 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, is located in downtown Toronto at 27 Front Street East. Tickets are $40 (lower orchestra) and $30 (upper orchestra) and may be reserved by calling the box office at 416-366-7723 or 1-800-708-6754, go online to www.stlc.com
Witness the Toronto re-birth of this wondrous, eclectic musical!
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