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Ben Hur   

 
Broadway Theatre , (11/29/1899 - circa. 5/1900)
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Opening Date:Nov 29, 1899   
Closing Date:May 1900 Total Performances:194

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Description: A play in a prologue and six acts


Production Staff
Produced by Klaw & Erlanger
Vocal and intrumental 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
Cast
Adeline Adler Tirzah
Mabel Bert Mother of Hur
Edmund Collier Arrius
Emmett Corrigan Ilderim
Charles Craig Khaled
Henry Devere Cecilius
William Ford Galley Officer
William Frederic Metellus
Paul Gerson Drusus
William S. Hart Messala
Henry Lee Simonides
Gretchen Lyons Esther
Robert Mansfield Sanballat
Henry Montrose Centurion
Frank Mordaunt Balthasar
Edward Morgan Ben Hur
Corona Riccardo Iras
Mary Shaw Amrah
F. S. Thorpe Gaspar
Frederick Truesdell Malluch
Charles J. Wilson Hortator
Melchior