Ben Hur, 1911

The run dates incomplete

Opened

December 23, 1911

Closed

Unknown

Performances

41

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

New Amsterdam Theatre

Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and carry a performance count, this is the 553rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of Ben Hur 5 more that season

1899	Broadway Theatre Original · Ben Teal	194 perf.
1900	Broadway Theatre Return-Engagement · Ben Teal	40 perf.
1903	New York Theatre Revival · Joseph Brooks	96 perf.
1907	Academy Of Music Revival · Joseph Brooks	64 perf.
1969	Prince Edward Theatre Original

Who was in it17 named

Oscar Adye
James F Ayres
Richard Buhler
Edwin Cushman
Emmett C King
Schuyler Ladd
William Markham
Charles J O Brien
Franklin Pangborn
Bissell Putnam
Frederick Scates
Walter M Sherwin
George Sydenham
George Wilkes
J Arthur Young

2 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Producer

Klaw & Erlanger

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Ben Hur at all.
• When it closed.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.