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5f0351 BEN-HUR stage play souvenir program book 1899 early production from Lew Wallace classic!

Date Sold 8/4/2020
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An Original Vintage Stage Play Souvenir Program Book (measures 12" x 10" [30 x 25 cm]; 37 pages) (Learn More)

Ben-Hur, a 1899 - 1920 Ben Teal Broadway stage play production (based on the work by Lew Wallace and adapted by William W. Young). Edward J. Morgan portrayed Ben-Hur during the first season (followed by William Farnum), while William S. Hart played Messala. The key spectacle of the show recreated the novel's chariot race with live horses and real chariots running on treadmills against a rotating backdrop (though later productions sometimes used "mechanical" horses). The production opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City on November 29, 1899, and ran for 194 performances in its first season, before closing on May 10, 1900 (and opening again later that year). Ben-Hur became a hit show and ran for eighteen non-consecutive years on Broadway. The play's 21 year national tour included large venues in cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Baltimore. International versions of the show played in London, Sydney and Melbourne. When the play finally closed in 1920, it had been seen by more than twenty million people and earned over $10 million at the box office.
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Condition: good to very good. There is much staining in the blank background areas of the covers, but the interior pages are in pretty nice condition. The string that held them together at the spine has partially come loose, so many of the pages are loose.
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