Overview
Character Name
Marcellus
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Tenor
Vocal Range
High Note: F#4/Gb4
Low Note: C#3/Db3
Vocal Technique
Operatic
Time & Place
Elsinor, Denmark, 16th century
Analysis
Horatio and Marcellus are guards at the castle of Elsinor. Marcellus is based on the character of the same name in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
They inform Hamlet that they have seen the ghost of his father each night at midnight, and when
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