Theatre Register

Hamlet, 1961

Shows · Phoenix Theatre, 1961

Revival BroadwayPhoenix Theatre 102 performances

The run closed June 11, 1961

Opened
March 16, 1961
Closed
June 11, 1961
Performances
102
Previews
Theatre
Phoenix Theatre

Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 186th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

The theatre record for this run is wrong

This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.

Other stagings of Hamlet 39 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.

Who was in it35 named

Patricia Falkenhain
Donald Madden
Alexander Scourby
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

2 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 33 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. 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 Hamlet at all.
  • No show page for Hamlet. 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.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.