Scenic/video designer Nick Iwaskow’s castle-ramparts set provides a darkly dramatic backdrop throughout, strikingly lit by John A. Garofolo and Iwaskow, and Mylette Nora’s costumes are just as stunning. The months of May thru September 2010 have the 100 or so films that I included.

Hamlet The Rock Musical Hollywood Sizzle - Duration: 2 minutes, 18 seconds. To search for an exact name or title, use quotation marks at the beginning and end. Behind the Scenes - Where's the orchestra going? Don't miss this captivating visual, musical, and artistic experience. Additional Music & Lyrics by Craig Fair, Directed by Bill Castellino Gallery. Produced By David Carver Music, Designed & Developed by Newfound Marketing. Like a long-lost rock-opera cousin to Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who’s Tommy, Hamlet The Rock Musical has arrived at North Hollywood’s El Portal, and if the show’s original Broadway incarnation flopped big way back in 1976, its 2020 revival is anything but that a bomb. I wanted to share the experiences with anyone who was interested, but especially family and friends that might like to know me a little better. I intend to watch L.A. walk through it.”, Book, Music & Lyrics by Cliff Jones

In 2020 Los Angeles will make history again when the 21st Century re-imagined version of Hamlet The Rock Musical premieres at the legendary El Portal Theatre, Friday February 14th at 8pm. This is a change of pace for the site, this is a live stage event rather than a movie, but this is a venue that allows me to share with a... Hallelujah, the drought is broken, at least for a bit. Arrangements – Craig Fair and Doug Oberhamer Casting is by Michael Donovan, CSA.

While the primary focus on Kirkham A Movie A Day [KAMAD] has been on movie reviews or retrospectives, there have been a lot of Speci... My online blogging colleague Howard Casner started a Podcast recently with a great conceit. 30 Years On: 1984 A Great Year For Movies, The Personal History of David Copperfield, 10 Music Related Posts From the Last Ten Years. DAVID CARVER MUSIC 30TH ANNIVERSARY. Instead, it’s one of the most excitingly staged, hummably hook-blessed, and thrillingly performed rock musicals I’ve seen in a good long while. Choreographer Janet Roston, the set, video and lighting design of Hipster Nick Iwaskow, and the most talented theatre actors in California and Hamlet The Rock Musical promises to over deliver a show that is part theatre – part concert, with songs that soar, singers that are awesome and dancing that dazzles. Gallery Hamlet The Rock Musical 2020-02-18T19:31:01-03:30. Rock Musical "Hamlet" Live recording at Sunplaza Nakano on 15 July 1979. I am not a musician, unless you count two years of piano lessons when I was eight. Hamlet The Rock Musical is produced by David Carver Music.

Cate Cundiff is production stage manger, Lily Alia is general manager, and Jeremiah Thies is production manager. (Orchestrations are by Fair, arrangements by Fair and Oberhamer.). to the play-within-a-play “To The Death,” that accuses Hamlet’s uncle Claudius (Kevin Bailey) of poisoning his brother (“He got it in the ear”) before wedding the widowed Queen Gertrude (Carly Thomas Smith), to “I Cannot Turn To Love,” which has Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, and Ophelia’s brother Laertes (Ian Littleworth) bemoaning their destinies in soaring five-part counterpoint, Hamlet The Rock Musical tells its story in one memorable song after another, and that’s just Act One. Choreographed by Janet Roston, Music Director and Conductor – Doug Oberhamer Casting is by Michael Donovan, CSA. A revelatory El-Bashir conjures up memories of Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Bassey, Diana Washington, and Audra McDonald, particularly in her breathtaking, heartbreaking “To Have Seen What I Have Seen,” while Smith gives Whitney, Mariah, and Celine a run for their pop diva money in a showstopping “No Use Pretending”, and Deanna Anthony (Grin) belts like Jennifers Holiday and Hudson in “Something Is Rotten In Denmark” opposite power-piped blue-eyed soulster Bruce Merkle (Honeybelle). The search bar will enable you to find name references and titles if you want. The reviews are only part of the experience, the stories are a part of what I was trying to accomplish. Linda Rowe and Sarah Burgess Chaulk are co-producers and Rhodie Smith is associate producer. Above all, Hamlet The Rock Musical is blessed with a sensationally talented cast to rival Broadway’s best, beginning with Lewis’s charismatic, vocally soaring Prince Of Denmark. Music director Doug Oberhamer not only elicits ravishing vocals from his all-star cast but conducts Hamlet The Rock Musical’s sensational nine-piece orchestra as sound designers Leon Rothenberg and Jonathan A. Burk provide a pitch-perfect rock-concert ready sound design mix. Orchestrations – Craig Fair From the dramatic “The First Watch,” which has Denmark’s recently murdered King revealing himself in spectral form to Hamlet’s best buds Horatio (Thomas Hobson) and Marcellus (Michael Deni), to “That It Should Come To This,” a simply gorgeous ‘80s power-ballad that lays bare Hamlet’s (Payson Lewis) agonized heart and soul, to “To Thine Own Self Be True,” in which Polonius (Larry Cedar) offers words of wisdom to a young man in crisis, to “Nunnery,” which has Hamlet rejecting the woman who loves him (Fatima El-Bashir’s Ophelia) in the most heartless of ways.

Sound Design – Leon Rothenberg & Jonathan A. Burke Hamlet The Rock Musical has actually existed since the early 1970s. Edit Release New Submission . Reviews Add Review [r15448501] Release. Littleworth not only raps with the best of them in “Don’t Unmask Your Beauty To The Moon” but hits vocal high notes in “Silence” matched by Deni and Hobson’s own rafters-reachers in “The First Watch.”. Linda Rowe and Sarah Burgess Chaulk are co-producers and Rhodie Smith is associate producer. It takes chutzpah and talent to reinvent what is arguably the greatest play ever written, and though Bard purists may carp that there’s a good deal more of composer/lyricist Cliff Jones than wordsmith Will Shakespeare in Hamlet The Rock Musical’s over three-dozen songs (with nary a spoken word to link them), they manage to recount Hamlet’s tale quite intelligibly (or at least for those in the audience who’ve seen the Shakespeare original at least once), and do so in just over ninety minutes plus intermission. He is also the author of.

Cate Cundiff is production stage manger, Lily Alia is general manager, and Jeremiah Thies is production manager. Check out some images of the set video and lighting design: Behind the Scenes. Hamlet The Rock Musical 2020 World Tour Sizzle Reel - Duration: 2 minutes, 24 seconds. In 1976 Broadway history was made, not because of the well-earned multiple night show ending standing ovations, but because 11 songs into the 32 song show, Leata Galloway (Gertrude) received a show stopping standing ovation after delivering a theatre shaking, emotionally driven performance of All My Life. Comes in a Gatefold Sleeve with Obi, 2 Foldout Inserts.