Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 June 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
18 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
19 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
20 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
21 Jan 1870, 7:45 PM
22 Jan 1870, 1:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Hamlet, [play]
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  W. E. Sheridan [actor] (role: Laertes);  Theodore [actor] Hamilton (role: King);  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)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 January 1870, 2.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 January 1870, 7.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 17 January 1870, 5.

No mention of music.

4)
Announcement: New York Sun, 17 January 1870, 2.
5)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 January 1870, 4.

No mention of music.

6)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 January 1870, 5.
7)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 22 January 1870, 335.
8)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 29 January 1870, 342, col. 3.

Demand for seats.