Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Booth's Theatre

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 November 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Mar 1870, 7:45 PM
15 Mar 1870, 7:45 PM
16 Mar 1870, 7:45 PM
17 Mar 1870, 7:45 PM
18 Mar 1870, 7:45 PM
19 Mar 1870, 1:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Hamlet, [play]
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Edwin Thomas Booth (role: Hamlet);  Fanny [actress] Morant (role: Queen);  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)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 March 1870, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 14 March 1870, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 21 March 1870, 7.

Booth’s final performance as Hamlet for this engagement before an immense audience.

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 March 1870, 2.

No mention of music.

5)
Review: New York Clipper, 26 March 1870, 406.

No mention of music: the play could have run for a longer period, but Booth evidently wanted a change.”