Hamlet

Theatre

Name:	Delacorte Theater
Address:	81 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

Production Information

Number of performances:	21
Opening date:	June 20, 1972
Closing date:	July 16, 1972

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival	Producer
	Joseph Papp	Producer
	Bernard Gersten	Associate Producer

	William Shakespeare	Playwright
	John Morris	Music

	Gerald Freedman	Director

	Ming Cho Lee	Set Designer
	Theoni V. Aldredge	Costume Designer
	Martin Aronstein	Lighting Designer

	Merle Debuskey	Press Representative
	Bob Ullman	Press Representative

	John Beven	Stage Manager

	David Eidenberg	Production Supervisor

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Tom Aldredge	2nd Gravedigger
	Christine Baranski	Lady
	Anna Brennen	Lady
	Roger Alan Brown	Francisco/ Lord
	Mel Cobb	Priest/ Guard
	Colleen Dewhurst	Gertrude
	Charles Dinstuhl	Sailor/ Guard
	Charles Durning	1st Gravedigger
	Frank Dwyer	Reynaldo/ Lucianus
	Gerald Finnegan	Lord
	Bonnie Gallup	Lady
	Michael Goodwin	Marcellus/ Fortinbras
	Barnard Hughes	Polonius
	Linda Hunt	Player Queen
	James Earl Jones	Claudius
	Raul Julia	Osric
	Stacy Keach	Hamlet
	James McGill	Cornelius/ Lord
	John Michalski	Bernardo
	John Nichols	Guard
	William Robertson	Lord
	Nathaniel Robinson	Sailor/ Guard
	Reno Roop	Guildenstern
	Frank Seales	Guard
	James Sloyan	Rosencrantz
	Robert Stattel	Horatio
	George Taylor	Ghost/ Player
	Alan Tongret	Guard
	Sam Waterston	Laertes
	Jim West	Lord
	Kitty Winn	Ophelia
	Greg Wnorowski	Norwegian Captain
	Richard Yarnell	Guard
	Mark Zeray	Guard

Replacement Credits

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Betty Miller	Gertrude

Awards

		Award	Person / Company	Function
1	WON	1973 Obie Award, Distinguished Performance	Stacy Keach	Actor

Notes

Produced in cooperation with the City of New York, Honorable John V. Lindsay Mayor, Honorable August Heckscher administrator P.R.C.A, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.