Date premiered September 17, 1917 Genre Prose | Original language English | |
Written by Mary Hamlin
George Arliss Characters Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
William B. Giles
General Philip Schuyler
Count Talleyrand
James Reynolds
Zekial
Chief Justice John Jay
Colonel Lear
Citizen
Mrs. Betsy Hamilton
Angelica Church
Mrs. Maria Reynolds
Mrs. Zachery Whalen Place premiered Knickerbocker Theater
New York City | ||
Hamilton is a 1917 Broadway play about Alexander Hamilton, written by Mary P. Hamlin and George Arliss. It was directed by Dudley Digges and stars Arliss in the title role. It follows the attempts of Hamilton to establish a new financial structure for the United States following the Critical Period and the establishment of a new Constitution in 1787.
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Mary Hamlin, then a 46-year-old high society woman and mother of four, claimed that playwriting was her "secret desire."
In 1931, the film Alexander Hamilton was released. It was based on Hamlin's play and Arliss reprised the title role.
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Hamilton opened to positive reviews on Broadway. A review in the New York Post read, "Congratulations are due to Mary Hamlin and George Arliss upon the cordial public reception accorded to their play 'Hamilton,' upon the occasion of its first production in this city ... The piece is a welcome and, in some respects, notable addition to the small body of genuine American drama. ... it is a real play with real men and women in it, containing an appeal not only to popular taste, but to the attention of the intelligent theatergoer."