Rockabye Hamlet

• Regional Revival (1975)
• Original Broadway Production (1976)
  New York, NY
• Los Angeles Revival (1981)
• New York Revival (2014)
  Astoria, NY

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Original score

• Why Did He Have to Die?
• The Wedding
• That It Should Come to This
• Set It Right
• Hello--Hello
• Don't Unmask Your Beauty to the Moon
• If Not to You
• Have I Got a Girl for You
• Tis Pity, Tis True
• Shall We Dance
• All My Life
• Something's Rotten in Denmark
• Denmark is Still
• Twist Her Mind
• Gentle Lover
• Where is the Reason
• The Wart Song
• He Got It in the Ear
• It Is Done
• Midnight ? Hot Blood
• Midnight Mass
• Hey!
• Sing Alone
• Your Daddy's Gone Away
• Rockabye Hamlet
• All by Yourself
• Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Boogie
• Laertes Coercion
• The Last Blues
  • aka The Last Blues I'll Ever Sing [no note]
• Didn't She Do It for Love
• If My Morning Begins
• Swordfight

Cut during New York previews

• Pass the Biscuits, Mama
• The Mad Waltz
• I Cannot Turn to Love
• Get Thee to a Nunnery
• With a Pick and a Shovel
• Somebody Wrote the Wrong Words to My Song
• To Thine Own Self Be True
• To Have Seen What I Have Seen
• An Eye for an Eye
• Song of the Flowers
• Off Her Rocker and Roll
• Broadway Wipeout

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (not listed yet)
  

  • Cal Dodd
  • Rory Dodd
  • Cliff Jones
  • Lisa Hartt
  • Irish Rovers

Based on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare

This rock-infused adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy transforms the tale of a Danish prince into a high-energy battle of betrayal, love, and revenge. Set to a driving score, the story hurtles through intrigue and emotional conflict, replacing the court’s solemnity with the raw edge of a rock concert while staying true to the core themes of power, loyalty, and destiny.

• "Broadway Wipeout" was written by Cliff Jones after the show closed and is about his experiences doing the show and how the critics destroyed it while the audience loved it.

• Kronborg: 1582 (original title)
• Something's Rocking in Denmark (revival title)