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| 1976 | Minskoff Theatre Original. February 17, 1976 · Gower Champion | 7 performances |
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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… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p131
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. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p348
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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p376
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p435
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p482
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p481
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