Hamlet: Grand Testimonial Benefit to the Count Joannes from the Citizens of New York

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Price: $.50 parquet, balcony and family circle; .75 reserved parquet and balcony; $1 reserved dress circle; .25 amphitheatre; private boxes at “usual dramatic prices”

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 May 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 Apr 1864, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Hamlet, [play]
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  George Jones [Count Joannes] (role: Hamlet);  Countess Jones [actress] (role: Ophelia)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 April 1864.
Announced for April 30.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 April 1864.
“The original music, as traditionally rendered in Shakespeare’s own theatre, will be sung by OPHELIA in the Maniac Scene.”