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Richard Burton's Hamlet is a common name for both the Broadway production of William Shakespeare's tragedy that played from April 9 to August 8, 1964 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and for the filmed record of it that has been released theatrically and on home video.
Hamlet: Directed by Bill Colleran, John Gielgud. With Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie. The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
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- Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
- 1964-09-23
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. 205 W. 46th St., New York, NY. SYNOPSIS: Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, returns home to mourn his father’s death and begrudgingly attend the wedding of his mother,...
Jul 29, 2022 · Colloquially referred to often as Richard Burton's Hamlet, the Broadway revival of Shakespeare's tragedy was mounted at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. It opened April 9, 1964, and played 137 ...
Theatres. Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. (Apr 09, 1964 - Aug 08, 1964) Description. A play in five acts. Setting. In and around Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Comments. "This is a HAMLET acted in rehearsal clothes, stripped of all extraneous trappings, unencumbered by a reconstruction of any particular Historical Period.
Crazy, untamed, arrogant, possibly/maybe/quite likely/probably/most definetly drunk Richard Burton ranting and raving Shakespeare’s Hamlet into the audience as if the title character was the inmate of a 16th century mental asylum.
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. 1964. ★★★½. Rewatched Feb 09 , 2024. Ariah77’s review published on Letterboxd: Variations on Hamlet #5. This is the second of three 1964 Hamlets in my list. It is a film of a live theatre production, and a very different experience to a film based on the play.
