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Ben Hur
Play
Drama
Original
Broadway
Opening Date
Sep 03, 1900
Closing Date
Oct 1900
Performances
40
Play
Drama
Original
Broadway
Open Date: Sep 03, 1900
Close Date: Oct 1900
Closed Flag: n
Is Final Week:
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Broadway Theatre
(Sep 03, 1900 - Oct 1900)
This production is a return engagement of
Ben Hur
(Nov 29, 1899 - May 1900)
Description
A play in a prologue and six acts
Setting
Jerusalem in the First Century
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
Klaw & Erlanger
Vocal and instrumental music by
Edgar Stillman Kelley
; Dramatized by
William Young
; Based on the novel by
General Lew Wallace
Staged by
Ben Teal
Scenic Design by
Ernest Albert
and
Ernest Gros
; Costume Design by
F. Richard Anderson
Adeline Adler
Tirzah
Mabel Bert
Mother of Hur
Adele Block
Iras
Emmett Corrigan
Simonides
Charles Craig
Khaled
Henry Devere
Cecilius
Robert Elliott
Arrius
William Farnum
Ben Hur
William Ford
Galley Officer
William S. Hart
Messala
W. J. Kelly
Drusus
Francis Kingdon
Balthasar
Robert Mansfield
Sanballat
Henry Montrose
Centurion
Franklyn Roberts
Metellus
Mary Shaw
Amrah
Nellie Thorne
Esther
F. S. Thorpe
Gaspar
Frederick Truesdell
Malluch
Harry Weaver, Jr.
Ilderim
Charles J. Wilson
Melchior
Hortator
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
Klaw & Erlanger
Vocal and instrumental music by
Edgar Stillman Kelley
; Dramatized by
William Young
; Based on the novel by
General Lew Wallace
Staged by
Ben Teal
Scenic Design by
Ernest Albert
and
Ernest Gros
; Costume Design by
F. Richard Anderson
Adeline Adler
Tirzah
Mabel Bert
Mother of Hur
Adele Block
Iras
Emmett Corrigan
Simonides
Charles Craig
Khaled
Henry Devere
Cecilius
Robert Elliott
Arrius
William Farnum
Ben Hur
William Ford
Galley Officer
William S. Hart
Messala
W. J. Kelly
Drusus
Francis Kingdon
Balthasar
Robert Mansfield
Sanballat
Henry Montrose
Centurion
Franklyn Roberts
Metellus
Mary Shaw
Amrah
Nellie Thorne
Esther
F. S. Thorpe
Gaspar
Frederick Truesdell
Malluch
Harry Weaver, Jr.
Ilderim
Charles J. Wilson
Melchior
Hortator
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