A Cast Of Thousands co-founder and frontman Mark Allen Holt took a step closer to selling out for a legitimate acting career by performing the title role in Hamlet this month, produced by the Syracuse Shakespeare Festival. 
 
Don’t take our word for it…
 
Joan Vadeboncouer of the Syracuse Post-Standard writes:  “First and foremost is Mark Allen Holt, who rises to the occasion in the title role. He has the huge passion, the easy mastery of the poetry and acting chops required to project the melancholy Dane.”
 
Neil Novelli, also of the Post-Standard, writes: “Mark Allen Holt is a great Hamlet, and I don’t use that word loosely. He avoids stereotypes like the angelic Hamlet (Olivier), or the neurotic (Jacobi). And he’s not wearing a label that says ‘Melancholy.’  Instead, Holt is an Everyman, one we can identify with.”
 
Archie Stratton of the Pretentious Quarterly chimed in with something too mealy mouthed to translate. 
 
Longtime PBS local affiliate station manager Barb Smarmy said of Archie’s review: “Huh?”
 
As part of her court ordered community service, actress Lindsay Lohan wrote: “The play was good, but the cast party was lame.”
 
While Jessica Simpson added:  “Hamlet?  Isn’t that about a baby pig?”
 
And finally, Mark Allen Holt’s newly hired publicist wrote: “With Mark’s success as Hamlet, he now categorically denies ever working with A Cast Of Thousands.”