Love it! Hamlet should rock, and you translate Shakespeare's poetry into musical poetry so nicely (and digestably). I like the "reject this final act" ending. I'm going to have that chorus running through my head (and fighting with the actual version from Hamlet; since I'm the daughter of a Shakespeare professor . . .).

I would go see Hamlet the Musical if you create music this good for the whole play! Surely some theatre company would welcome this fresh approach.

Thanks for the modern translation! Great work with the arrangement making this rock. I would just love to see the Bard listening to this and expect his toes would tap.

Love the shakespeare theme!! So odd to hear that in a rocker!! Cool vocals and harmonies. Classic lyrics. This is a super fun listen!!

The demo worked fine for me later in the day. No clue what happened.

Now I would have been more interested if it had been given to me like this! Keep it coming!

Bouncing along happily. Mind you, Bill may be waiting for you in the hereafter to complain about a second singer in a soliloquy chorus. Fun to listen.

brilliant. i would buy an album of shakespeare's wise musings translated into contemporary idioms. i wrote a play called "Durango" that translated hamlet into the language of a cowboy movie. A theatre company wanted to produce it but I wouldnt let them because they saw it as farce. Thinking back on it, they were probably right. I only mention this because your Hamlet could never be misinterpreted as such. It is a very good, intelligent rewrite that todays audience will understand with no problem. Far superior to that the writers of "Good News for Modern man" did with the gospels, and leagues above the dreadful musical "Godspell." You could write a folk opera based on hamlet. I imagine Ophelia wakking in on Hamlet while he is singing this. "What a noble mind is now overthrown" indeed.

The demo doesn't play?