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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. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
A Hit! A palpable hit! moreCast
(Credited cast) | Richard Burton | ... | Hamlet |
 | Hume Cronyn | ... | Polonius |
 | Alfred Drake | ... | Claudius |
| Eileen Herlie | ... | Gertrude |
| William Redfield | ... | Guildenstern |
| George Rose | ... | First Gravedigger |
| George Voskovec | ... | Player King |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Hugh Alexander | ... | Cornelius / Second Gravedigger / English Ambassador |
| Philip Coolidge | ... | Voltimand |
 | Christopher Culkin | ... | Player Queen |
 | John Cullum | ... | Laertes |
| Michael Ebert | ... | Francisco / Fortinbras |
| Dillon Evans | ... | Reynaldo / Osric |
| Clement Fowler | ... | Rosencrantz |
| Geoff Garland | ... | Lucianus |
 | John Gielgud | ... | Ghost (voice) |
| John Hetherington | ... | Player Prologue |
| Barnard Hughes | ... | Marcellus / Priest |
| Linda Marsh | ... | Ophelia |
| Robert Milli | ... | Horatio |
| Frederick Young | ... | Bernardo |
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre - 205 West 46th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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Actor William Redfield, who appeared as Guildernstern in the John Gielgud-directed stage version of Richard Burton Hamlet (1964/I), published a memoir of the event, "Notes of an Actor", in 1967. He wrote that Gielgud had an encyclopedia knowledge of the play and could play any and all parts of it from memory for his cast as he directed the production, but he lacked the overall vision to bring the production together. moreFAQ
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Wondrous prose gloriously delivered by stellar actors at the peak of their form. Three hours of fast-spoken, fast paced, riveting action conceived in the mind's eye, not in a computer program. I saw this on restored DVD, and found it breathtaking. There is no point in my inveighing on the merits of the play, but to anyone who might have fixed ideas about the capabilities and limitations of certain well-known Broadway actors, it will be a revelation. That's entertainment!