Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 June 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
11 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
12 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
13 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
14 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
15 Jan 1870, 1:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Hamlet, [play]
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  D. W. [actor] Waller (role: Ghost);  Blanche [actress] De Bar (role: Ophelia);  D. C. [actor] Anderson (role: Polonius);  Edwin Thomas Booth (role: Hamlet);  Fanny [actress] Morant (role: Queen);  W. E. Sheridan [actor] (role: Laertes);  Theodore [actor] Hamilton (role: King)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 09 January 1870, 2.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 10 January 1870, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Sun, 10 January 1870, 3.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 January 1870, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 15 January 1870, 327.
6)
Review: New-York Times, 16 January 1870, 4.

Brief; no mention of music.

7)
Review: New York Clipper, 22 January 1870, 334, col. 3.

No mention of music.

8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 29 January 1870, 342, col. 4.

Gross receipts for the first ten nights.