Hamlet, 1961

The run closed June 11, 1961

Opened

March 16, 1961

Closed

June 11, 1961

Performances

102

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Phoenix Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 188th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Hamlet 40 more that season

1761	Chapel Street Theatre Original
1865	Winter Garden Theatre Revival
1870	Olympic Theatre Revival · Asa Cushman	72 perf.
1900	Garden Theatre Revival · Fred Williams	16 perf.
1902	Garden Theatre Revival · Fred Williams	32 perf.
1904	Knickerbocker Theatre Revival · Johnston Forbes-Robertson	28 perf.
1905	New York Theatre Revival	1 perf.
1906	Academy Of Music Revival
1907	Lyric Theatre Revival
1908	Lyric Theatre Revival
1909	New Amsterdam Theatre Revival
1910	Academy Of Music Revival
1911	Dalys Theatre Revival
1912	Wallacks Theatre Revival	1 perf.
1913	Manhattan Opera House Revival
1915	44th Street Theatre Revival
1917	44th Street Theatre Revival
1918	44th Street Theatre Revival
1919	Shubert Theatre Revival
1920	Shubert Theatre Revival
1922	Sam H Harris Theatre Revival	101 perf.
1923	Manhattan Opera House Revival	24 perf.
1925	Hampdens Theatre Revival	68 perf.
1930	Shubert Theatre Revival · Fritz Leiber
1931	Broadhurst Theatre Revival	28 perf.
1934	44th Street Theatre Revival	8 perf.
1936	Empire Theatre Revival	132 perf.
1939	44th Street Theatre Revival · Margaret Webster	40 perf.
1945	Columbus Circle Revival · George Schaefer	131 perf.
1946	City Center Revival · George Schaefer	16 perf.
1947	New Century Theatre Revival · Donald Wolfit	2 perf.
1952	Ziegfeld Theatre Revival · Jean-Louis Barrault	8 perf.
1958	Broadway Theatre Revival · Michael Benthall	14 perf.
1964	Lunt Fontanne Theatre Revival	137 perf.
1969	Lyceum Theatre Revival · Ellis Rabb	45 perf.
1975	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Michael Rudman	47 perf.
1992	Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Paul Weidner	45 perf.
1995	Belasco Theatre Revival · Jonathan Kent	91 perf.
2009	Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Michael Grandage	72 perf.
2009	Wyndham's Theatre Original

Who was in it35 named

Patricia Falkenhain
Donald Madden
Joyce Ebert
Jared Reed
Ray Reinhardt
Ted van Griethuysen
Michael Baseleon
Robert Blackburn
Robert Corpora
Franklin Cover
David Craven
Wayne Croft
Daniel Durning
Ted Graeder
Elaine Hindman
William Hindman
Nicholas Kepros
Sheila Kortlucke
George O Halloran
Patricia O Morran
Morrie Peirce
Garth Pillsbury
Juliet Randall
Paul Robinson
Colgate Salsbury
Frank Valenza
Frederic Warriner
Karl E Williams
Andrew Wollershein
Frederick Young
Edward Zang
David Zirlin

3 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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

Director

Stuart Vaughan

Choreographer

Stuart Vaughan

Producer

Theatre Incorporated (T. Edward Hambleton and Norris Houghton, Managing Directors)

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 Hamlet at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.