Ben Hur, 1911

The run dates incomplete

Opened

December 23, 1911

Closed

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Performances

41

Previews

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Theatre

New Amsterdam Theatre

Of the 961 productions we hold that opened in the 1910s and record 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. 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 it17 named

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

1 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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. 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 director named.
• 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.