Album Now Available!

The Hamlet Cast Recording is now available! 

 

Liner Notes

1. It Begins with Pyrrhus / Come to Hecuba
Dialogue: Adam Habben, Sam Cheeseman
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Cajon: Amber Hugee
Vocals: Amber Hugee, Emily Renee Shimskey

2. The Rugged Pyrrhus and the Enobled Queen
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Cajon: Amber Hugee
Vocals: Amber Hugee, Emily Renee Shimskey

3. A Rogue and Peasant Slave
Dialogue: Sam Cheeseman
Guitar: Erick Rivera

4. The Mousetrap
Dialogue: Emily Renee Shimskey, Martin Gutfeldt, Sam Cheeseman, Morayo Orija, Joe Griffin
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Melodica: Amber Hugee

5. Witching Time of Night
Dialogue: Sam Cheeseman
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt

6. Fare You Well, My Dove
Lead vocals: Bianca Phipps
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Cajon: Amber Hugee

7. St. Valentines Day
Lead vocals: Bianca Phipps
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Cajon: Amber Hugee

8. Will He Not Come Again?
Lead vocals: Bianca Phipps
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Cajon: Amber Hugee

9. There is a Willow
Dialogue: Morayo Orija
Guitar: Erick Rivera

10. Lay Her in the Earth
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Ukelele: Amber Hugee

11. A Very Palpable Hit / Good Night Sweet Prince
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Cajon: Amber Hugee

12. Curtain Call
Guitar: Erick Rivera
Saxophone: Martin Gutfeldt
Cajon: Amber Hugee

All music composed by Erick Rivera and Elizabeth Rentfro. Additional instrumentation also by Martin Gutfeldt and Amber Hugee. The lyrics are all Shakespeare’s.

Midsommer Flight’s outdoor summer production of Hamlet ran from July 8 – August 27, 2017, touring to four Chicago parks. Special thanks to the Chicago Park District and all CPD Staff.

Cast: Samual Cheeseman as Hamlet, with Jared Dennis (Claudius), Stephen Fedo (Polonius), Martin Gutfeldt (Player King, Musician), Adam Habben* (Marcellus, Player 1, Gravedigger 2, Osric), Amber Hugee (Musician), Ian Michael Minh* (Horatio), Jesse Montoya (Rosencrantz), Morayo Orija (Gertrude), Bianca Phipps (Ophelia), Adam Rice (Guildenstern), Erick Rivera* (Musician), Joe Sergio (Laertes), and Emily Renee Shimskey (Player Queen/Gravedigger/Messenger).

Production Staff: Beth Wolf (Director), Robin Waisanen (Stage Manager), Meredith Ernst (Assistant Director), Chris Smith and Maureen Yasko (Fight Directors), Elizabeth Rentfro (Music Director/Composer), Erick Rivera (Composer), Jeremiah Barr (Set Designer), and Jenna Meyer (Prop Designer). Original cast recording album produced by Joe Griffin. Album art designed by John Morrison.

Midsommer Flight is a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to presenting high quality, accessible productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Chicago communities. The company has produced free Shakespeare in the park since 2012 in Chicago neighborhoods, performing to large crowds and growing each year. In 2015, the company also expanded its programming to present an indoor holiday production of Twelfth Night inside the Lincoln Park Conservatory, an iconic greenhouse located in the heart of the city. This album contains the original music, set to Shakespeare’s words, composed for the company’s summer 2017 production in Chicago parks.

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