The run closed February 21, 1976
- Opened
- February 17, 1976
- Closed
- February 21, 1976
- Performances
- 7
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Minskoff Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 479th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it39 named
Beverly D Angelo
Rory Dodd
Winston Dewitt Hemsley
Irving Lee
Randal Wilson
Tommy Aguilar
Steve Anthony
James Braet
Terry Calloway
Prudence Darby
Judy de Angelis
Chet D Elia
David Fredericks
Judy Gibson
George Giraldo
Larry Hyman
Kurt Johnson
Clinton Keen
David Lawson
Suzanne Lukather
Paula Lynn
Jo Ann Ogawa
Sandi Orcutt
Bruce Paine
Merel Poloway
Joseph Pugliese
Yolanda Raven
Jeff Spielman
Michelle Stubbs
Chuck Thorpe
Dennis Williams
8 of these 39 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Gower Champion
- Choreographer
- Gower Champion, Tony Stevens
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Rockabye Hamlet February 17, 1976 More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1092
- West Side Story (1957) and Sensations(1970), both from Romeo and Juliet; Kiss Me, Kate (1948), from The Taming of the Shrew; Swingin'the Dream (1939) and Babes in the Wood(1964), both from A Midsummer Night's Dream; Love and Let Love (1968), Your Own Thing (1968), and Music Is (1976), all from Twelfth Night; Two Gentle… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 131
- Rockabye Hamlet, a short-lived rock version of Hamlet with Meat Loaf playing a priest and an Ophelia who committed suicide by wrapping her microphone cord around her neck. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 348
- Rockabye Hamlet (2/17/76; 7 performances) was directed by the usually reliable Gower Champion, but he made a mistake with this rock version of the Shakespeare classic. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 376
- Gower did—on to seven, count ’em, really bad shows (including such horrors as the out-of-town flop Prettybelle (1971], Rockabye Hamlet [1976], and A Broadway Musical [1978]) before drawing his career, and life, to a close on a high point in 1980 with 42nd Street. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 435
- Broadway's most recent musicals, going back almost two years, included such spectacularly depressing offerings as Home Sweet Homer, Pacific Overtures, Rockabye Hamlet, Rex, So Long, 174th Street, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Something's Afoot, and Music Is. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 482
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Rockabye Hamlet at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.