Ben Hur, 1899

The run dates incomplete

Opened

November 29, 1899

Closed

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Performances

194

Previews

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Theatre

Broadway Theatre

Of the 147 productions we hold that opened in the 1890s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of Ben Hur 4 more that season

Who was in it23 named

Adeline Adler
Mabel Bert
Edmund Collier
Emmett Corrigan
Charles Craig
Henry Devere
William Ford
William Frederic
Paul Gerson
William S Hart
Henry Lee
Gretchen Lyons
Robert Mansfield
Henry Montrose
Frank Mordaunt
Edward Morgan
Corona Riccardo
Mary Shaw
F S Thorpe
Frederick Truesdell
Charles J Wilson
Herbert Carr
Fred Perry

0 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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

Ben Teal

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. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• 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 show page for Ben Hur. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.