Includes illustrated covers, music and songs from the drama, text from the original novel and the drama, illustrated with photographs from the stage production.
Content: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Creation/production credits: Copyrighted, 1900, by Klaw & Erlanger--Cover.
Statement of responsibility: Illustrations from flash-light photographs by Joseph Byron--Leave [2]
Content: Klaw & Erlanger's production of Gen. Lew Wallace's 'Ben-Hur'--Leave [2]
Statement of responsibility: Photographers include Rockwood and Joseph Byron.
Creation/production credits: Souvenir program for the stage production of Ben-Hur, dramatised by William Young, staged by Ben Teal, vocal and instrumental music composed by Edgar Stillman Kelley, and business direction by Joseph Brooks.
Biographical/historical: The stage production opened Nov. 29, 1899 at the Broadway Theatre, New York, N.Y. Other New York productions include one at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Dec. 1911, and another at the Manhattan Opera House, Nov. 1916. Film adaptations include the 1925 version with Ramon Navarro, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, and Francis X. Bushman, and another in 1959 with Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, and Martha Scott.