Catalog Number: OS-2620

Condition Details:

Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; a couple creases near edges; no scuffing (front/back); shrink is torn near top-left; slight discoloration with a few darker discoloration spots on back. Inner-sleeve is original (plastic). Spine is easy-to-read with very mild-wear. Little shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; minor wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and a few divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Soliloquy: "O, That This Too Too Solid Flesh..." (Richard Burton )
• Polonius' Advice To Laertes (Hume Cronyn )
• Hamlet-Ghost Sequence (Richard Burton and John Gielgud )
• Letter Scene (Polonius, Gertrude, Claudius) (Hume Cronyn, Eileen Herlie, and Alfred Drake )
• Soliloquy: "Now I Am Alone...." (Richard Burton )
• Soliloquy: "To Be, Or Not To Be..." And Nunnery Scene (Hamlet And Ophelia) (Richard Burton and Linda Marsh )
• Hamlet Addresses The First Player: "Speak The Speech, I Pray You..." (Richard Burton and Jiří Voskovec )
• Chapel Scene (Claudius, Hamlet) (Alfred Drake and Richard Burton )
• Soliloquy: "How All Occassions Do Inform Against Me..." (Richard Burton )
• The Death Of Ophelia (The King, The Queen And Laertes) (Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, and John Cullum )
• The Gravediggers' Scene (Hamlet And The First Gravedigger) (Richard Burton and George Rose )
• The Death Of Hamlet (Hamlet, The Queen, Horatio) (Richard Burton, Eileen Herlie, and Robert Milli )

About The Record:

John Gielgud directed Richard Burton in a Broadway production at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1964–65, the longest-running Hamlet in the U.S. to date. A live film of the production was produced using "Electronovision", a method of recording a live performance with multiple video cameras and converting the image to film. Eileen Herlie repeated her role from Olivier's film version as the Queen, and the voice of Gielgud was heard as the ghost. The Gielgud/Burton production was also recorded complete and released on LP by Columbia Masterworks. Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction.