Hamlet

Event Information

Venue(s):
Winter Garden

Event Type:
Play With Music

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 February 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
27 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
28 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
29 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
30 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM
31 Dec 1864, 7:30 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Hamlet, [play]
Text Author: Shakespeare
Participants:  Edwin Thomas Booth (role: Hamlet)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 December 1864, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 December 1864, 4.

Listed in “Amusements This Evening.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 26 December 1864, 5.

“Mr. Booth’s Hamlet has fairly electrified the town.”

4)
Review: New York Herald, 27 December 1864, 5.

No mention of music.  “The remarkably fine presentation of Hamlet at the Winter Garden still draws good houses.”

5)
Announcement: New York Post, 27 December 1864.
6)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 31 December 1864, 302.

“‘Hamlet’ is retained at the Winter Garden. Edwin Booth’s most excellent impersonation of the lamenting Dane is as beautiful a piece of acting as we have ever seen. Many good judges maintain that in the character of Hamlet, Edwin Booth has no equal. Go see it while the opportunity offers. You will not regret it.”