I've never heard the full soundtrack, but I've listened to "Talk to Each Other" and "King for a While" and they were really great. You could tell that this special/film was going to be really great. A real shame.
They wanted to go for something more banal, that's for sure. I wouldn't have minded MWO much had it not been the script that the top of the pile of propositions that were more clever. This movie was written as a parody of Hamlet, which would have been a nice backhand to the two novel based stories. They instead went with something a
lot less clever and a lot less esoteric. Even though Hamlet is one of three plays that Hollywood bothers to recognize. Seriously, between that, MacBeth, and especially Romeo and Juliet, you think that the guy wrote those plays and those plays only, kinda like how the only operas ever were The Ring Cycle, Carmen, and Pagliacci.