Elvis's Hamlet

Another imginary “lost” musical; in this scenario, Elvis, encouraged by the positive reviews of his acting in the 1960 western “Flaming Star” decides to cement his thespian bonafides by playing Hamlet. Alarmed, Col. Tom manages to persuade Elvis to at least appear in a musical version of the play, but the project was abandoned after the songs had been demo’d…

My son Micah provided the wonderful illustrations for this video ;

I decided not to include the whole of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy in the vide but I did write and record it in its entirety and post it separately: